June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... habitable space, but also the number of social contacts. This prevents the development of conflicts among small, isolated groups. The figure shows some options for parallel construction of Testudo packages and the location of the...
January 2023
Is human space exploration DOOMED?
... are such hotbeds from one another? If the Earth’s biosphere is unique to our observable universe, we are doomed to isolation. But if our observable universe contains many such biospheres, there would be a real possibility of encountering fellow...
October 2023
Slovenia’s footprint in space
.... “Single event effect (SEE) immunity, innovative error mitigation techniques, sophisticated three-level fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) policy, redundancy on all critical functions and thoughtful component selection ensure robustness...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... also provided the opportunity to analyse the potential psychophysiological and cultural issues that a crew could experience in an isolated confined extreme (ICE) environment, and possible remedies through spatial design. The project and the outcomes...
May 2024
Prioritising space solutions to accelerate sustainable development
... emissions. Elsewhere, whilst one UK satellite operator is helping educate marginalised girls across 245 rural and isolated schools, millions of girls worldwide are still uneducated and in poverty because there is no national, regional or globally...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
.... Iman Khomenei Launch Centre in Semnan Province. The fourth strand was Iranian satellites launched by other countries. Isolated by the west, Iran had turned to Russia and China even before Omid, and Russia had launched...