October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... great focus - she has three degrees in mechanical engineering and her graduate research investigated the control of thermal ... installing the Japanese laboratory. Then, as a flight engineer for Expedition 36/37 she lived aboard the Station for almost...
October 2025
Satellite technology - from operational challenges to strategic opportunities
..., power supply, sensor payloads and orbital configurations. In this article, the author reviews the applications of these engineering creations and the developments in technology that enable our orbiting infrastructure. Demand for secure, high-speed...
September 2026
Spacecraft protection and resilience - a convergent approach
...Convergence Here is what each side tends to miss. Radiation engineers see an upset and reach for the natural explanation, because... in their world the environment is the adversary. Security engineers see a fault and suspect malice, because in their ...
03 September 2022
Hydrogen fuel leak scuppers second Artemis 1 launch attempt
... scheduled for 2025. UPDATE (Sunday, 4 Sept): NASA engineers are assessing two options to fix the latest problem - replace...enclosure to protect sensitive components during the repair work, engineers would not be able to test the fitting with cryogenic...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... Denmark have taken on this challenge in project CosmoCrops. Inspired by a project in 2015 called SpaceMoss, which genetically engineered moss to survive the harsh temperatures on Mars, the 2016 team decided to work with single celled organisms ...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
..., enabling high-performance missions on larger CubeSats and even microsatellites. The latest payload developed under this engineering philosophy is the Chameleon imager. By sharing a similarly designed image plane as the Gecko, but mated with more...
