January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... for manufacturing or testing alcohol in space. One example of this is a group of engineering students at the University of California, San Diego, USA, who are working on an experiment to brew beer on the Moon. They call themselves ‘Team Original...
March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
... and electrolytes metabolism on 2-52 week spaceflight. Review of findings. Fluid and Electrolyte Regulation in Spaceflight. San Diego: Univelt, Incorporated, Chapter 2. 17 Nicogossian AE, Hoffler GW, Johnson RL, and Gowen RJ. Determination of cardiac...
May 2018
Satellite data helps combat illegal shark fishing
... into custody and charged with the offence of processing and transporting protected species. After a short trial on San Cristobal Island in the Galapagos, the ship’s crew were given fines totalling US$5.9 million and prison sentences...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... will be released soon. Some of these conclusions have been presented at the 6th International Marine Debris Conference in San Diego, USA, in March 2018. The ESA projects are focusing on investigating passive optical spectro-radiometric remote...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... of Münster, Germany, prior to working on planetary interiors and comets at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), in San Antonio, Texas. After working at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin, he began working on BepiColombo as a Project...
December 2018
Coffee roasting in space
..., and tasting coffee from around the world. Cavallini holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from San Diego State University. He received his Master of Science degree in Space Studies from the International Space University...
