January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... the course of a spacecraft without requiring large quantities of fuel. During the Earth swing-by, Hayabusa2 gave its onboard instruments ...greater than traditional chemical thrusters for the same fuel consumption. Their weakness is that this velocity ...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... a 30 m boulder-strewn crater. With only 50-90 seconds of fuel left, Armstrong calmly flew the LM over the targeted area and ... space programme investment, including heat resistant surfaces, fuel cells, vacuum devices, microwave scanners, freeze drying...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
... looked at by Virgin Orbit; meanwhile, other launch companies are investing significantly in R&D for more environmentally friendly propellants, fuels and rockets. This first report is currently being taken further, and the next assessment will take...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... long with an unfuelled mass of 240 tonnes and a maximum fuel load of 400 tonnes of hydrogen and 110 tonnes of oxygen (...although it rarely needs to use its full fuel capability). It can house payloads in its central pressurised section ...
October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
...that the lack of affordable communication solutions represents. This need for increased capital efficiency will further fuel adoption of the already growing trend of the ‘ground station as a service’ (GSaaS) model. A more efficient alternative to the...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
...-value products, which might include propellants or power system fuels in addition to life support oxygen and water. The ...methane (CH4) gas, that can be stored and later converted into a fuel. It is estimated that a crew of four on a one-year mission ...
