March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... nanotubes may make space elevators a reality. Let’s combine these concepts and imagine a space elevator that is electrically ...increment of orbital change are permanent. Of course, some combination of these methods might serve the purposes of our descendants...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
...environmental impact of space missions. The dramatic decrease in the amount of required and transported raw materials combined with process speed optimisation, enables the AM route to decrease energy consumption and reduce CO2 footprint. As recycling...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
.... No negative side effects reported. Figure 7: Combination therapy of LN18 Glioblastoma cells - using TMZ and...cells (to about 45 per cent) as seen in column three. Combined treatment gives an added effect - reduction of tumour cell viability to ...
August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
... chemical compounds. Coming into contact with different materials, some microflora, most often bacterial and fungal combinations, adapt quickly to new environments and commence their vital life activities, which may include aggressive metabolic...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... must be restricted, with solutions found to the significant threat that debris poses in some LEO altitude/inclination combinations. The Inter Agency Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), which published its Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines in 2002...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... using the more realistic assumption of 60 percent PMD success rate for the background space traffic. When combined with a mega-constellation adhering to the guidelines with 90 percent success (i.e. the inverted scenario), the simulation showed...
