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...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
...HAB) part of the Lunar Gateway, the future European Large Logistic Lander (EL3) and the Columbus module at the International Space Station (ISS), among others. The Portuguese Space Agency is now the focal point of space policy in Portugal, connecting...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
When most people think of space, they think of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Apollo programme, Space Shuttle launches, the International Space Station; all high profile human exploration programmes carried out by...
