January 2018
Space nation's first orbiting satellite
... 2017 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as a part of the OA-8 Antares-Cygnus mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and deployed after Cygnus completed its mission at the ISS and was placed into a higher orbit. Speaking from...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
... has unique training, medical operations and astronaut operations/support expertise in Europe. While currently focused on the International Space Station (ISS) programme, a large part of EAC’s competencies is relevant for any future human spaceflight...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... on Mars, but those have significant differences from robots that remain in orbit.) The Canadarm used on the US Space Shuttle and Canadarm2 on the International Space Station (ISS) are well known. But those are officially ‘manipulators’ rather than...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... planetary science missions. Astronauts flew aboard the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station and the Space Coast region rode the economic boom of America’s thriving space programme as the Air Force provided Cape Canaveral facilities, NASA...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
...on 17 April 2020, following her 200-day mission on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir described the situation unfolding on the planet as “quite surreal”. Indeed the world had changed significantly during her relatively short...
May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
.... Currently, we are living in the Earth-dependent era of space exploration, which uses assets such as the International Space Station (ISS). Various experiments have been conducted onboard the ISS to understand the effects of microgravity, such...
