July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... current CubeSat standard, designed originally for LEO satellites, is not applicable for interplanetary missions, where the voyage is long, often lasting many years and where batteries drain, temperatures fluctuate rapidly and where radiation...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... connected terranaut. References 1 https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_2018_strategic_plan.pdf 2 NASA Voyages: Charting the Course for Sustainable Human Space Exploration, 2012 https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/657307main_Exploration...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... the journey time, right now the only way we know to survive the trip is through a multi-generational voyage, so why not investigate this? After all, population genetics can be studied with much more accuracy than...
November 2018
Being human in space
... on the necessary technology but also to consider the biological and social factors involved in making such a gargantuan voyage feasible. “We need self-sustaining and evolvable space technology capable of enduring the many decades needed to journey...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
...This was a problem encountered on the Hayabusa spacecraft of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on its return voyage from a near-Earth asteroid in 2007-2010. ThrustMe’s second innovation is the use of a novel RF acceleration technique that...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... bases and transport people from one base to another, offering them a completely different experience during the voyage. Docking/charging stations are placed along the paths between the lunar bases. One proposal for...
