November 2018
Being human in space
... tools could be considered and developed. Virtual reality, augmented reality and sensory suits could mimic a sensory environment and might be produced based on personal life experiences and psychological anchors. Proposing to mimic Earth and favoured...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
...) six environmental factors that would challenge most off-the-shelf robotic systems: 1. The launch environment. The vibroacoustic environment within the launch vehicle fairing is violent. Successful space hardware must be designed to tolerate these...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...the impact of the constellation on astronomical observations. This, however, presupposes that NEPA, which concentrates on the ‘human environment’, applies to outer space. The only time that space operations have had to follow NEPA is when considering...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
...and Imaging Radar (TIRA) system, and the Goldstone, Haystack, and EISCAT radars. In order to understand the environment produced by the man-made orbital objects, it is helpful to establish a proven starting point by looking at the consolidated, quasi...
November 2020
Space medicine and terrestrial health care
... the Covid-19 pandemic, the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) made recommendations to prevent the impact of the micro-environment on the human locomotion system Space medicine places a high emphasis on researching the effects on the human body...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
... to operate remotely controlled robotic devices. Right: 2019, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano navigates through a computer-generated environment to learn the route he might take outside the Space Station on a spacewalk, helping him to take decisions and...
