June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... objects and mapping the trajectories of asteroids to see if any could have our name on them. A recurrence of Meteor Crater, Arizona, is what the B612 Foundation hopes to avoid. “We’ve been given a gift, and the gift is that we have...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... identify and collect the local fine regolith sources available from aeolian, or wind-created, deposits within craters and beds and transport them to the habitat site. First, the sintering-capable rover of the pair...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
..., close to the lunar south pole. It has good conditions for communications and gets a lot of sunlight. Nearby craters could potentially contain ice beneath a surface of rock. We want the project to take 10 years after it is approved – with...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
... ancient past. The story of our origins is written in the bodies of comets and asteroids and in the impact craters they have left on rocky bodies of the Solar System. If we could just deploy a really bright light to someplace...
