May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
..., direct energy deposition, material extrusion, powder bed fusion, sheet lamination, vat polymerisation and material jetting. Each class brings different advantages and can accommodate different materials, scales, morphologies and environments. For...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... for Testing and Materials (ASTM) categorises additive manufacturing techniques into seven groups: binder jetting direct energy deposition material extrusion material jetting powder bed fusion sheet lamination (not currently applicable for ISRU) vat...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... has more ships than any Western rival. China’s Air Force operates fourth-generation fighter jets, is deploying fifth-generation jets which may be equal to Western kit and has flying prototypes of possible sixth-generation fighters...
20 April 2017
ALMA research team captures first clear image of accretion disk around a star
... matter. The image clearly shows that the disk is, indeed, spinning. Jet and disk in the HH 212 protostellar system: (a) A composite image of the jet, produced by combining images from different telescopes. The orange image around the...
07 July 2017
Unexpected large methanol find near Enceladus
...the south pole on Enceladus were shooting geyser-like supersonic jets of water vapour, other gases, and ice particles ...in the Solar System with ongoing deep-seated geological activity. The jets of water obviously need to come from somewhere, so it has...
06 November 2017
Enceladus more active than previously thought
... to explain the transport of hydrothermal products from the core to the plume sources and a mechanism to fuel the jets has so far eluded scientists, as an abnormally high heat power (greater than 20 billion watts) is required. Enceladus is thought...
