March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... price to orbit by at least two orders of magnitude. Clearly, this is the goal of SpaceX’s current development work on its Starship and Super Heavy vehicles. The benefits of only a few tens of thousands visiting low Earth orbit (LEO...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
... the finance and GIS industries, he presented his ideas about interstellar exploration at the first Hundred Year Starship symposium, organised jointly by NASA and DARPA. In 2016, he began a Master’s in Astronautics and Space Engineering at Cranfield...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
...stages of space flight, including extravehicular activities. In 1967/68, a 365-day medical and technical experiment ‘A Year in an Earth Starship’ was performed at IBMP. For the first time in world practice, the possibility of ensuring long-term human...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
..., so the Red Planet is constantly bombarded by carcinogenic solar and galactic radiation. The second test flight of SpaceX’s Starship took place on 18 October 2023. The system’s software was triggered to terminate the flight, exploding the spacecraft...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
...’s launch vehicles have strict payload limits. For example, the Space Launch System (SLS) and SpaceX Starship, two of the largest proposed heavy-lift rockets, can carry payloads up to hundreds of tons to the Moon. The...
April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
... figure ever further. However, SpaceX is heading towards a figure of $2,500 per payload and, if the Super Heavy Starship project lives up to expectations, launch costs could fall further. A prototype catapult has already been built in the...
