February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... one to address. Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have contributed enormously to our understanding of the universe and are surely worth preserving. The International Space Station (ISS) is an iconic example of what can...
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
Interplanetary spaceflight and restorative justice
... levels of conflict, sometimes of a serious nature. For example, during the SFINCCS ‘99 study (an experiment simulating long-duration missions on the International Space Station (ISS) featuring crews of ‘astronauts’ from different countries), there...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
...’s advisors are asking him to cooperate with China on space exploration Last year, the International Space Station had to manoeuvre three times to avoid debris collisions, while the European Space Agency (ESA) had to manoeuvre one of its spacecraft...
June 2021
The coolest experiment on the ISS
...-Einstein Condensate in the Cold Atom Laboratory and the future applications of CAL’s research. The Cold Atom Laboratory is a facility on the International Space Station (ISS) which utilises the unique microgravity environment in space. In July 2018...
January 2023
Producing food in space
... need to take their consumables with them, which takes up valuable cargo space. Even the largest space station, the International Space Station, can store only around six months’ worth of food, and there are regular shipments to resupply it in low...
