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...
13 January 2021
The UK Space Agency and Rolls-Royce launch study into nuclear-powered space exploration
... and bring forward pioneering innovations that will advance UK spaceflight. Nuclear power presents transformative possibilities for space exploration and this innovative study with Rolls-Royce could help to propel our next generation of astronauts...
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...
