January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... vehicle. The OSCAR payload, which occupied six traditional single stack New Shepard payload boxes, recreated a gravity-driven, solid-to-gas conversion process in microgravity that mimicked a downdraft gasification reactor. The reactor was designed...
January 2023
Asgardia expands its reach
...the negative factors associated with being in space, including zero gravity, cosmic rays and long-term isolation. On 4 November ..., in particular, creating technologies for artificial gravity and protection against space radiation. Space embryology...
September 2026
Ten years of Asgardia - from idea to nation
... language rather than terrestrial geography. Asgardia concentrates its scientific efforts on three key research areas: artificial gravity, protection from space radiation and human embryology The following day, 25 June, I was inaugurated as the first...
09 August 2017
Stars orbiting Sgr A* hint at relativistic effects
...measured orbit to predictions made using classical Newtonian gravity along with predictions from general relativity. Using...centres of galaxies with its high sensitivity performance. GRAVITY is already making high-precision measurements of the Galactic...
02 May 2019
Blue Origin's 11th test flight ends in success
... Shepard, the Space Exploration Initiative is flying several scientific payloads, as well as two projects that use zero gravity as a medium for works of art. Telepresent Drawings in Space uses graphite to create a drawing that could only have...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
...distribution and topography have been mapped by use of gravity measurements from orbit and laser altimeter reflections. In a... isotopes, which are enriched at the higher masses, suggest gravity’s role in the puzzle, although chemistry can also affect ...
