February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
... to maintain its established expertise and to prepare for the future, EAC also: continuously ensures the high quality of its ... skills and tools with respect to the requirements of future human exploration missions, such as developing skills and tools...
April 2025
Pioneering human reproduction in space
...improvements are being made to the minilab’s gas-exchange membranes to prevent excessive evaporation of the growth medium. Future refinements will focus on optimising the sensor package for real-time analysis during missions. An imaginary interaction...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... one of post-colonial guilt and grim forebodings about the future. People tend to want to talk about existential risk, ... I applaud his speech, and urge everyone interested in the future growth and prosperity of humankind to support his broad vision, ...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... risk. Experience in low Earth orbit (LEO) and on a handful of manned flights to the Moon have taught us that future long-duration missions will face exponentially difficult challenges associated with transportation, working in space and staying...
March 2017
Space is open for business
... problems on Earth. “Incredible technological advances in the past years have lifted a billion people out of poverty,” he claimed. Future steps This event has been the start of a process, and it is not intended to be a one-off. “We want to build...
February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) from 1987 to June 1990. Acknowledgment This article is based on a paper ‘EUMETSAT’s future Low Earth Orbit satellite programmes provide continuity of observations and data services’ presented by Marc Cohen at the...
