October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... plume deflection structures. The ability to create large, strong structures on another planetary body without the need to transport all the materials lies at the heart of in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) and represents a revolution for surviving...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... NASA under the Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS-2) contract, utilising Dream Chaser and an attached Shooting Star transport vehicle to carry critical supplies like food, water and science experiments to the station before returning to Earth...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... surfaces from orbit. The Transit Configuration is essentially identical for both trans-Mars and trans-Earth transportation of the crew and consists of two copies of all modules that are necessary for safe crew return...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... and entertainment, which have failed to drive the economy. Whereas what he calls the ‘Great Inventions’ concentrated in transportation, energy and manufacturing drove incredible economic growth, and benefited our entire society during that amazing...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
... receive on their mobile phones. Streams of mud Ocean colour data also support the tracking of coastal sediment transport. In extreme cases, the concentrations are so high that they become true ‘streams of mud’. Nevertheless, sediment tracking...
May 2020
Time to discuss regulations for future interplanetary trade
... Trade Organization rules and national legislations are applied; trade is carried out with binding forms of payment, transport and delivery; and customs procedures are regulated through institutions such as the World Customs Organization? It should...
