October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
... antenna. The 35-metre DSA, located 140 km north of Perth, Western Australia, is designed for communicating with deep-space missions and provides support to spacecraft such as Mars Express, Rosetta and Gaia. Cooperation In the absence of complete...
26 October 2018
Orion's service module ready to be shipped from Europe
... capability, and provide safe re-entry from speeds that can exceed 25,000 mph as astronauts return from deep-space missions. Most of the operations required for day to day living, such as breathing and heating are provided by the...
16 January 2019
China unveils future space plans
... that are exclusively selected to join in. All foreign counterparts are welcome to participate in China’s future lunar and deep space missions, especially those pertaining to the Moon’s south pole, said Li.
12 December 2019
Blue Origin's New Shepard makes 12th test flight
...Blue Origin's ninth commercial payload, which included a recycling experiment to harvest useful gases from common waste on deep space missions, two high school and middle school art experiments and an undergraduate experiment from Columbia University...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... with astronauts and NASA’s Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft, designed specifically for deep space missions NASA exchanged samples with the Soviet Union, helping to deplete the very limited quantity of samples (approximately ...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
..., blood, skin, bones currently being demonstrated on ground may offer the possibility of hastening the sustainability of deep space missions and planetary colonisation. On Earth the possibility of printing organs using stem cells may open the unique...
