September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
... of new technologies and the delivery of scientific payloads to the Moon, leading the way for a future of prolonged space exploration. The private spacecraft would be able to deliver up to 100 kg payload to the lunar surface with each flight. About...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... (LEO) and will send NASA’s new Orion crew vehicle into lunar orbit on the deep space exploration system’s first mission, Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), scheduled for 2019. Largely a test flight, EM-1 will verify and validate new systems...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... lunar flights and eventually round-trips to Mars. It is the first human-rated spacecraft for beyond-LEO space exploration since the Apollo programme. Crew radiation protection is a design driver of the Orion spacecraft and it includes a storm...
31 August 2017
Degree paths that can help you to obtain a career in space exploration
... the performance and safety of their designs. If all goes well, their designs could be used for future space exploration. It’s possible to study for a degree in engineering online too! Avionics Technology When the high-tech gear on spacecraft...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... and user experience, where the user becomes part of the design process. From the early days, space exploration has been driven by a technology paradigm routed in militaristic organizational hierarchy. How did we get here? In the United...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... in order to warn against errors that could become critical for all of us - people of Earth. The ‘rocket path’ of space exploration, along which mankind is proceeding today and which you have decided to follow, is ultimately a deadend direction The...
