April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... each other and with satellites and other objects. It must be stressed that Article IV does not exist in isolation. The community of nations took a major step to promote the peaceful exploration and use of outer space by the...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... room temperature propellants, with Korolev still insisting on the use of cryogenic propellants and therefore remaining somewhat isolated. The friction between Soviet space experts in the first half of the 1960s meant that there was...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
..., storage, recycling, hygiene and waste collection. Social constraints and challenges include intensive social interaction and isolation at the same time, as well as personal space and territorial issues. All these themes were very new...
September 2019
Expectations in a connected world
... frequency allocation efficiently between terrestrial and satellite systems. Our respective industries continue to work in isolation rather than working collaboratively to manage spectrum. Regardless of who generates the most income, productivity...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... to conduct biomedical research in microgravity. Devices such as this will become ever more important in monitoring isolated, closed environments, be they in a spacecraft or on an extraterrestrial body. But the portable DNA sequencer is already being...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
... climbers, desert survival groups, polar expeditioners, Antarctic winter-over groups and various simulations of isolated, confined environments for space. Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger is an architect and researcher specialising in compact habitability...
