09 December 2019
Metal-loving microbe prefers eating meteorites than earth rocks
... were fed a different diet of ground-up chalcopyrite, a copper-iron-sulphur mineral. They loved it too, but the growth rate ... microbe’s bodies, and are thought to help catalyse iron oxidation reactions and possibly make their meal more tolerable ...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... impossible to replicate such as specific mineral chemistry. This relates to elements such as titanium and iron, and also the rare Earth element europium. Iron and europium are highly affected by oxygen on our planet but as there is no atmosphere...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... necessarily on enforceable rules and laws. It is calculated that the iron in asteroid 16 Psyche, one of the most massive asteroids in the...similar to the Earth’s core and rich in metallic iron and nickel. Ascendancy of the individual Space is simply...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
..., not compressive-strength. The baseline choice for the tensile material is piano wire steel, which is 99 percent iron… and iron is plentiful on Ceres. Diagram depicting a megasatellite orbiting Ceres located in the asteroid belt between Mars and...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... intercontinental ballistic missile and Explorer the A-4 derived Redstone. Ironically, it was a General, also President, Eisenhower who ... the range of American systems and each other’s. Ironically, some of these satellites were orbited by Russian...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... with a quarter inch (6 mm) sewing machine foot, and ironing. Since none of these things were possible in space Nyberg ... version of each woman’s spacecraft in the background. She ironed a fusible web onto the background fabric, and collaged together...
