May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
...dual hatting approach to operations and safety in its human spaceflight ESD (Exploration Systems and Development) programme which will transport...(ESD) and dual hatting The NASA human spaceflight programme has three key components: the human spacecraft...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
... to orbit be reduced by about 1000 times within around 15 years using only proven technology? If so, this would revolutionise spaceflight and lead to a new era of space science and exploration, and to the development of a wide range of new commercial...
August 2021
Robotic systems for psychological support
...(films, books, news video programmes, photos, paintings, etc.). However, the experience of psychological support for long spaceflights indicates that some crewmembers clearly prefer auditory stimulation, such as music or audiobooks. The need for this...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... he had omitted details of some topics that would require further research, including the long-term effects of spaceflight on humans. Indeed, the dangers of high-energy solar and galactic radiation, as well as long-term weightlessness, were...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... like signal intelligence satellites (built by CAST, a Beijing based satellite factory). According to the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, TJS 6 and TJS 7 have experimental docking stations. Because of the limited information available and...
April 2024
Space nation reveals global recognition ambition
... Problems (IBMP), Moscow. Asgardia is conducting a programme of research into women’s health under the effects of simulated spaceflight and the new participant is physician Ksenia Orlova. A second piece of news - previewed earlier in the week...
