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...
03 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...
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...
01 September 2016
New software uses satellite data to monitor wildlife habitats by airports
Wildlife habitats, especially those that seasonally attract large numbers of birds, can pose a serious danger to airplanes at takeoff and ...
