January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
... missions. ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has demonstrated centimetre-scale accuracy when docking with the International Space Station (ISS), while Sweden’s Prisma mission has demonstrated formation flying for brief periods, maintaining...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
... Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) will be critical to the survival and well-being of crews. The equipment developed for the International Space Station has proved that it is suitable for more challenging exploration missions but...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... to Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 41, where they will board the Starliner for an even more exciting ride to the International Space Station. “We’re not too far from the Astrovan driving to the pad a few times each year,” said Ferguson. “I hope...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... only operational transport systems being the 1960s Soyuz and the Chinese variant of it. The American systems under development are all variations on the 1960s capsule theme. While the International Space Station (ISS) is larger and more capable than...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... mass that has to be launched from the gravitational well of Earth. Trash to Gas The face of astronaut Don Pettit peers out from rubbish stowage bags in the Harmony node of the International Space Station. The bags, containing rubbish and no longer...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
... flight on, for 30 years until the end of the Shuttle programme in 2011. Its successor, the bigger, more complex Canadarm2, was extensively involved in the in-space assembly of the International Space Station (ISS). In the 20 years since it was first...
