March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... of its six passengers for a sub-orbital hop up to 100 km and back. So, for every kilogram of kerosene used to transport a conventional air passenger on a single journey, a traveller in today’s Crew Dragon would consume about 600 kg of kerosene and...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... 2015 at http: //techcrunch.com/2014/09/12/ycombinator- wants-you-to-solve-big-problems 21: NASA, (2014). Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown (Lunar CATALYST) initiative. Accessed May 2, 2015 at http:// www.nasa.gov/lunarcatalyst...
October 2015
From the kitchen… to the stars?
...already been established. Finally, both the production and transportation of LNG have long been mastered. However, there... chamber. The fuel tanks at the facility were filled from a transport tanker, which had a volume of 56.4 m3, and carried 16 ton...
August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
.... It is also impossible to fully sterilize all cargo and transport ships, including the cargo they deliver, even though much has...The case of the navigational viewport on one of the Soyuz transport ships, that was used for six months at the Mir ...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
...self-piloted Sonda IV, a two-stage rocket used to transport scientific and technological experiment payloads from 300-500 kg in... and the day-to-day life of Brazilians. Transportation and logistics companies rely on positioning technologies to...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
...of air-launch, without the downsides. De-coupling air launch Transporting the launch vehicle inside an aircraft means that it is ...Minuteman Missile in mid-air from the back of a large transport aircraft, a C5 Galaxy in that case. The project ...
