September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
... paramount for ESA to better assess the viability of the partnerships. The range of ideas is broad and includes applications, products and services related to utilisation of the International Space Station, post-ISS exploitation, lunar exploration...
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...
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...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
...scientists to study plant growth in a microgravity environment. This system, the Biomass Production System (BPS), deployed onboard the Space Shuttle and then the International Space Station, provided more data than ever previously collected. This led...
January 2021
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station
... past decade, the International Space Station partnership has continually addressed the future of research in - and exploitation of - low Earth orbit (LEO) beyond the lifetime of the ISS. At present, it seems likely that the Space Station will remain...
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...
