06 October 2017
Volcanic activity gave the early Moon an atmosphere
... patches that cover around 16 percent of the lunar surface. These patches are large basaltic plains known as maria, and they are similar in composition to the rocks found in Hawaii, however the lunar basalts contain significantly...
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
...developed and promoted by the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium (ASC) - blasted off from the Malbusca site on Santa Maria Island, reaching a top speed of 400 m/s and soaring to an altitude of 5,596 metres. Though modest in comparison to larger commercial...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
...around 2025. The ability of in situ manufacturing of infrastructure elements increases the sustainability of a future lunar settlement Maria Antonietta Perino, has been working for many years at Thales Alenia Space on the design of different building...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
..., Sapphire. Peter has a MSc in Space Studies from the School of Aerospace Studies at the University of North Dakota. Maria Rey is the Vice President and Chief Science Officer at SSCL. She retired after 30 years with the...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
...of years. The mean thickness of the regolith covering the whole lunar surface varies from 4-5 m in the lunar maria to 10-15 m in the highlands. Lunar soil refers to only the finer fraction of regolith, which is composed of grains 1x10-2 m in diameter...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
...ClearSpace-1 mission. Portugal panel presentation at IAC 2022 in Paris. The fourth challenge we identified is called the ‘Santa Maria Space Ecosystem’ and involves the establishment of a complete space innovation hub. The mid-Atlantic island of Santa...
