26 March 2018
Traveler program gets a boost with NanoRacks
... New Space industry by announcing a partnership with NanoRacks LLC, to focus on the development of the company’s Near Space Traveler program outside of China. The Traveler is a 2.5 metre cabin attached to a giant helium-filled balloon which is around...
April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
... thrusters use less propellant, the acceleration achieved is low, in part because of the limit of available power systems, and the travel times are even longer. This has been the state of play since the beginning of the Space Age and there’s not...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
... to employ) one central assumption: the basic compliance of the traveller with the internal discipline of the crew and the mission. In September 2006, Anousheh Ansari captured headlines around the world as the first female private space explorer...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
...does not need to depend heavily on the local resources at the destination to survive. With Galactic Harbours providing massive cargo movement, the restrictions of rocket deliveries are avoided and the traveller can depend on support from Mother Earth...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... windows. For flights to Mars, the travel distances involved are immense and seeing the Earth become a small and then a tiny blue dot during the journey out may have an unknown impact on the psyche of the selected crews. Following 50 years...
28 August 2020
Clumps of bacteria could survive interplanetary journey, new study says
... to reach our nearest planetary neighbour. "The results suggest that radioresistant Deinococcus could survive during the travel from Earth to Mars and vice versa, which is several months or years in the shortest orbit," says Dr. Yamagishi. To date...
