November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... areas, in particular of water ice, has sparked visions for their utilisation. This may include the production of fuel for rocket stages, harvesting of water and generation of oxygen for astronaut life support, and other applications...
November 2019
Cosmo’s adventures in animated edutainment
... those years and how he manages to communicate with a world-wide network of Cosmo Cadets, is all imaginative rocket fuel for STEAM learning through entertainment. This is the story of ‘Cosmo’, a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and...
18 May 2018
China launches its first private space rocket
.... OneSpace, a startup based in Beijing, successfully launched its first 9-metre-tall, single-stage OS-X solid fuel rocket to an altitude of around 40 km from an undisclosed base in northwestern China on Thursday. This marks a significant milestone...
14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
.... With a Solar System doomed to be littered by defunct robots no longer able to continue operations as they have run out of fuel, the steam-powered space-hopper could be a boon for future exploration, where the vast majority of its...
22 July 2019
Its lift-off for India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission
... in the launch, cannot thrust Chandrayaan-2 straight to our nearest celestial neighbour. Instead the spacecraft will save fuel by looping around Earth and using our planet’s gravity to fling it towards its destination.
20 January 2020
ESA facility begins producing oxygen out of simulated moon dust
... to harvest oxygen; a process that could one day aid future lunar settlers to breathe and to produce rocket fuel. Moon rocks brought back by astronauts from the Apollo missions confirm that lunar regolith – the dusty...
