02 November 2020
ISS marks 20 years of humans on board
... help NASA increase understanding of what it will take to expand human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit, and microgravity research into protein crystal growth and fiber-optic cables offers scalable commercial opportunities and benefits for...
25 January 2016
ESA to Invest in Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser
... technologies, coming from Europe, to be used in Dream Chaser, as well as using Dream Chaser for European purposes such as microgravity research. “There is also the launching aspect,” Woerner said. “The idea is to have Dream Chaser also launched with...
22 June 2021
Not Necessarily Rocket Science
... path” as an example. According to her bio, as a popular science communicator, Kellie Gerardi has “flown multiple microgravity research campaigns as a citizen scientist and space-suited human test subject”. Despite being a “non-engineer”, Gerardi...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
...-off business to cater for the sounding rocket market, carrying payloads for commercial or scientific microgravity research, of up to 100 kg. It would offer several minutes of weightlessness for experiments, followed by descent, parachute landing and...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... the past decade, multiple private organisations have provided commercial services onboard the ISS for microgravity research, CubeSat deployment, in-space manufacturing and other activities. Meanwhile, private companies such as NanoRacks and Axiom...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
...PhD in Biology and is a Deputy Head of Department/Senior Researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of... a Head of Bone & Metabolic Effects of Microgravity Research Laboratory at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of ...
