April 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... developed in materials and manufacturable geometry, allowing the manufacturing of integrated propulsion and structures with thin-walled propellant tanks that meet the stringent requirements for storage of hypergolic propellants. A third innovation...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
...-based imagery - allows modified space perception of real spaces. It also enhances the interior architecture – using digital walls/windows, lighting, textures and colours, for example - and introduces novelty while remaining passive and relatively...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... module contains a bridge, a galley with wardroom, a work area and six individual crew cabins. The external walls have plastic shielding sufficient to protect the crew from solar flares. This protection together with the...
May 2021
Visions of beating gravity
...’ will be, so that I can work without being bothered by my disability. My bed, on the other hand, will be against the wall of the rotating cylinder, where the artificial gravity created by the centrifugal force prevents insomnia and weakening...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... here on Earth - ever since humans came to the view that ‘greed is good’, which was long before Wall Street ever existed. Likewise, the tremendously intelligent film The Day the Earth Stood Still – that...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
...the paper consists of 2 km wide by 10 km (1.2 by 6.2 miles) long living cylinders which rotate to produce the artificial gravity at the walls. The population that can be held by each cylinder is 56,700, leaving each inhabitant with 1100 square metres...
