July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... built a scientific payload that controlled air and liquid systems, to precise levels, allowing scientists to study plant growth in a microgravity environment. This system, the Biomass Production System (BPS), deployed onboard the Space Shuttle and...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... are likely to see tens of thousands of new satellites launched by the end of the decade. Clearly, these rates of growth cannot be sustained indefinitely and, at some point, we will start to run up against the limitations of orbital carrying capacity...
October 2015
Space debris, Kessler Syndrome, and the unreasonable expectation of certainty
... and Nicholas Johnson in 2006 we now understand that the continued growth of the debris population is likely in the future even if ... launch activity is halted. The reason for this sustained growth, and for the concern of many satellite operators who ...
October 2015
From post-humanity to fractals: is human space exploration doomed?
...cm3), the Galaxy (10-24 g/cm3) and the observable universe (2 x 10-31 g/cm3). We can assume that with an unlimited growth of the volume of fragments of the Universe, their density approaches zero. The hypothesis of a fractal universe results in this...
February 2016
Shifting Space Perspectives: Artistic Research as Connective Research Area
.... Qualitative relationships are quantified and, in the case of Growing As Building, architectural visions of the self-growing house, growth principles and biological role models were related to each other. A set of first experiments was derived from...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
... a self-induced dust pile-up where a complex interplay between growth and migration induces dust self-accumulation. Basically, instead of the... overcome the radial drift and inefficient grain growth problem. Consequently, some researchers are now ...
