July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... supports a much wider variety of N2O-fed thruster options. Nitrous oxide is also easily available, inexpensive, easily transportable and can be handled with minimum safety precautions compared with other propellants in the table. Because N2O...
April 2025
Life in the Sun’s atmosphere - the looming threat of solar storms
... concern requires serious preparation,” Oppong-Asare noted. “Through strategic discussions with the energy, telecoms, defence, transport and space sectors, we are ensuring the reality of the risk is made clear to the industries that matter...
29 March 2021
Russia to develop new uncrewed spaceplane
... is comparable in size to the US Air force’s mysterious space plane, the X-37B. The craft, which will be used to transport cargo into orbit and return it to Earth, is being developed by the Molniya Research and Production Association (NPO...
22 July 2022
Astraius plans horizontal rocket launch from Scotland in 2024
... insurance market.” Huntsville-based Clark told ROOM that the global reach and flexibility of the C-17 military transporter aircraft would allow Astraius to offer an industry-leading capability for small satellite launches to LEO. “We will not...
February 2016
A Self-Deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments (SHEE)
... Systems Group of Austria and Space Innovations of Czech Republic. Distinctive features of SHEE include its easy transportability – it’s the size of a standard Euro shipping container - and its capacity to automatically deploy, increasing the size...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... beginning, space missions were directly linked to military projects. Launcher technologies were developed with the goal of transporting nuclear bombs from one continent to another. As the capacities increased, the USSR and the USA became...
