July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... uses sunlight to test the solar arrays on one of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Interplanetary challenges Interplanetary CubeSats, thanks to their low-cost, could perform highrisk, highreward science ...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... is happening before that deployment time period is up,” says Mark Panning, a co-investigator on the InSight mission based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The mobile service tower at SLC-3 is rolled back to reveal the ULA Atlas-V rocket...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... and Space Global and has served as the company’s CEO & Managing Director since November 2015. A former jet fighter pilot, Lt. Col (Res.) of the Israeli Air Force, he has over 20 years of experience in management, R&D and operation...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
..., using a laptop as a virtual reality display to train in the use of the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) jet pack. Astronauts use the SAFER during spacewalks to prevent them from floating away from the ISS...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... launch vehicles, is so much more reliable? This is partly because of the gentler ‘steady state’ conditions that commercial jets experience during cruise. Even at full thrust during take-off, smoothly-running turbofans usually operate well...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
...-driven human space exploration paradigm. About the author Tibor Balint is a Principal Human Centred Designer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His current...
