May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... programmes and projects to create innovative materials for future space odysseys. Sierra Space is developing the LIFE habitat an inflatable pressure shell composed of Vectran™ fabric, a material woven from liquid crystal polymer yarn that becomes...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
.... Once sufficient material had been aggregated at each point, it might be possible to begin to construct an artificial liveable habitat In this resonance orbit, since it is well outside the Roche sphere, gravitational tidal forces from the Earth ...
March 2026
Humanity – the potential of space
... build anything as large as we want, eventually, these capabilities will enable the construction of massive free-floating space habitats that can sustain human life indefinitely. As these industries mature, they will reshape the global economy...
09 April 2016
Flawless launch for SpaceX Dragon
... a year to retrieve sensor data and assess conditions. Expandable habitats are designed to take up less room on a rocket, ...module will allow investigators to gauge how well the habitat protects against solar radiation, space debris and contamination. ...
12 April 2016
ULA teams up with Bigelow
... companies are teaming up to launch the giant space habitats to orbit with the first targeted for 2020 in ... Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. "They need no other habitats, modules or anything of the sort." The first orbiting B330, ...
02 October 2020
Nasa funds ICON to develop a 3D construction system for the moon
... terrain vehicle, habitable mobility platform or lunar RV, and surface habitat on the Moon by the end of the decade are under...have already competed against each other in NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Competition. The challenge, which started in 2015 and ...
