January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
... three trillion dollars and assume all sorts of leading-edge developments, such as in-orbit servicing and manufacturing, habitats and the development of an in-orbit economy, even extending to other planetary bodies and extracting resources from...
February 2016
Shifting Space Perspectives: Artistic Research as Connective Research Area
...life support system, similar to the system on our spaceship Earth. Spaceflight parameters All spaceship and space habitat structures such as Medusa touch on what we call spaceflight parameters: self-sufficiency, limited resources, minimal space, life...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... missions. The average temperature on Mars is -63C so there would also be a need to maintain Earth-like temperatures inside habitats. Unlike on previous human space missions, which have operated almost exclusively in vacuum and therefore were more...
02 April 2021
SNC unveils plan to build its own commercial space station
... received funding from NASA in 2016 to develop a habitat concept and prototype along with five other prominent space industry...Garden® system to provide fresh food within the habitat. The LIFE habitat will undergo a NASA soft-goods certification this...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
...life support for itself and other lunar bases. As the mobile habitat travels from one base to another, it carries life supporting goods,... in terms of use of energy and resources. The habitat follows the Sun while travelling and is self-sufficient for...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
.... Among the possible options for building a Moon Base - digging the lunar surface in order to build an underground habitat; bringing fully functional and complete habitation modules from Earth to be mounted on the Lunar surface; or directly building...