October 2025
Pioneering affordable and flexible access to near space
... payloads can include multispectral sensors, telecommunications relays, or onboard AI processors, adaptable for short- or long-duration missions. Operational flexibility: systems can be launched from remote or mobile sites with minimal infrastructure...
May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
...condensed combustion products (CCP) during combustion. Magnesium hydride increases specific impulse, but is impractical for long-duration missions due to its poor dehydrogenation kinetic and hydrogen storage efficiency. Diborane has the same features...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
... occur during their time in space. However, what works aboard the ISS may not be as effective for long-duration missions into deep space and the predicted time-based changes may emerge when less support from...
September 2025
AI cybersecurity - challenges in space
... objectives, or the complete loss of a satellite if its AI-driven GNC system is critically compromised. For high-value, long-duration missions, such failures represent substantial financial and scientific losses. Failures can also lead to the loss...
26 February 2018
Spaceman: an astronaut’s unlikely journey to unlock the secrets of the universe
... astronaut, to the time of his inevitable ‘grounding’. After his last flight, he had a chance to go back for a long-duration mission to the ISS but decided against it: “I calculated the date of my return as the week before Daniel would graduate ...
02 November 2020
ISS marks 20 years of humans on board
... for innovative technologies like recycling waste plastic and carbon dioxide filtration that are critical for long-duration missions on the lunar surface in the Artemis program. Crew member safety also is important for lunar...
