18 March 2019
A habitat prototype for NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway
... which both the agency and the companies contribute money. A habitat is one of several modules planned to make up NASA’s...the Twitter users wanted to know how the soft-sided habitat would protect astronauts from debris strikes (a “micrometeroid shield...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
...be to move from simply providing systems to offering meaningful habitats that go beyond provisions for mere coping and surviving ...projections. Implementing such capabilities means that future space habitats can be anything but sterile, boring and cold...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
...other hand, the soil which is part of the spinning habitat needs a mechanically strong floor to support it against the ...concentrating light to a suitable level before being fed into the habitat. The urban space on the other hand will be illuminated...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
..., recyclability, cleaning, easy assembly and handling. These approaches provide cross-coupling between multiple sensors in the habitat space, while stimulating the sensory perception of the user. Circular interactions between the users and their...
February 2016
A Self-Deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments (SHEE)
... – it’s the size of a standard Euro shipping container - and its capacity to automatically deploy, increasing the size of the habitat and usable space to accommodate a two person-crew. The overall inhabitable volume of approximately 50m? was based...
02 October 2021
Space Habitats and Habitability
... this academic but readable volume is a guide to the concepts of habitability and human factors in relation to space habitats. In seven information-packed chapters, it surveys a number of terrestrial ‘analogue’ studies, missions and facilities along...
