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...
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...
31 May 2019
Melting moon dust with lasers to use in lunar habitats
... potential resources. Some even want to go further and build a Moon village. But how do you go about building a habitat on another celestial body when the cost of transporting materials into space is enormous? One company is offering a solution...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... giants, addressing the question: ‘Are there current habitats elsewhere in the solar system with the necessary conditions... Payload JUICE addresses the question: ‘Are there current habitats elsewhere in the Solar System with the necessary conditions to...
