July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
...the engine cool enough to survive the hellish combustion temperatures and pressures The design of environmental and life support systems for crewed spacecraft represents a completely different challenge for engineers, but is no less important for the...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
... foster international cooperation, we could also be living ‘On the Earth, For the Earth’ and for all the life it supports. This sounds like an audacious vision and it is. Oversimplified? Maybe. But each of us needs to make a personal decision about...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... suit are being tested to assess multi-use of this suit. Advancements in a portable life-support system (a backpack-like suit attachment containing life-support elements) are being evaluated as well. NASA is prototyping and testing suit upgrades...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
...Moon and beyond, there will be a need for resources for life support and to operate in space. It will become desirable to construct ... for their nations to reap the benefits from supporting companies that are generating new technologies, access to...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... them. This might be easily accomplished by robotic miners, which do not need expensive life support systems and so alleviate the risk posed to human life. Future programmes would benefit from taking this into consideration and, although unlikely...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
.... Ultimately, extraterrestrial resources will be valuable not just on Earth but in cislunar space, too - as propellant, for life support supplies and for manufacturing. We believe that this future economy starts with small scale exploration and...
