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...
29 June 2015
SpaceX Falcon 9 failure: will launch markets and manned spaceflight be affected?
...SpaceX than it does about the tremendous financial risks associated with spaceflight as a whole. Perhaps the most immediate threat is now to U.S. plans of restarting manned spaceflight. As New Scientist has already pointed out, Falcon 9 is the rocket...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
... Administrator Jim Bridenstine has informed staff that key figures, including the widely respected director of human spaceflight Bill Gerstenmaier, will be replaced as part of a major shake-up at the agency. The move, which has come as a shock...
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
.... The Gaganyaan Programme, will receive “a lion’s share of ISRO’s technology development & advanced R & D activities,” to help sustain human spaceflight activities in the long term, Kivan said in the New Years message. This would be a boost from last...
