23 April 2021
Mars rover instrument, MOXIE, extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
..., and putting it through a processing plant, making it into a large structure, or taking carbon dioxide – the bulk of the atmosphere – and converting it into oxygen,” she said. “This process allows us to convert these abundant materials into useable...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... comes a few years after Scott’s other sci-fi masterpiece, Alien. He develops, in Blade Runner, a similar neo-noir atmosphere, albeit this time set in a decaying city rather than on a spacecraft. This particular view of the future would...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... is considered part of the global commons (which covers Earth’s unowned natural resources, such as the oceans, the atmosphere and space). Eighteen annexes to the Chicago Convention covering all aspects of aviation have been made by ICAO...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
... systems. SABRE class engines will enable aircraft to fly over five times the speed of sound in the atmosphere and allow fully or partially reusable space launch vehicles to be built that will radically improve the affordability...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... keyword for this recent field of investigation is ‘multiwavelength’ astronomy. Fortunately, from the perspective of life on Earth, our atmosphere blocks a large part of harmful radiation from space. This however is not such good news for anyone...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... Committee (IADC) as “all man-made objects including fragments and elements thereof, in Earth orbit or re-entering the atmosphere, that are non-functional”. These space debris objects pose a serious threat to other satellites in orbit and...
