August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... Salyut space stations of the former Soviet Union, the International Space Station (ISS) with Tiangong 1, as well as short-term overlaps of two generations of the Salyut space stations. However, in all these cases, the stations worked independently...
January 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... reality. As human beings we can go to space and we have a destination there. It’s the International Space Station. I like to call it humanity’s outpost in space. Samantha Cristoforetti Without any doubt, it is the most amazing feat of engineering...
August 2016
Space for art
... special place I was living in space, but also of the incredibly special and ultimately important place I had the privilege of witnessing from that awesome and surreal vantage point of the International Space Station (ISS). Inspirational artwork used...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... reproduction during short-duration (around two weeks) flight experiments aboard free flying satellites, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station (ISS). Longer duration (months and years) rodent analogue reproduction experiments aboard...
September 2017
Space nation set to mark its presence in orbit
.... Asgardia-1 will be deployed from Orbital ATK’s Cygnus OA-8 resupply spacecraft due to launch this autumn to the International Space Station (ISS). The nano satellite is 10 x 20 x 20 cm and has eight batteries and four deployable solar arrays, and...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
... that builds research and manufacturing systems into compact smart containers, called CubeLabs, installed in hubs on the International Space Station (ISS). We want to see the market develop and so, as much as possible, we try not to patent. However...
