January 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... research flights as well. Virgin Galactic and XCOR both predict a future niche market for affordable microgravity flights carrying science and technology experiments on short periods of weightless flight. Another potential spaceport user, though...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... from the drillbit. Terrestrial testing will take place in a 1g environment, but there are also plans to test in a microgravity environment. Capturing and heating regolith. The drill has the capability to acquire samples from as deep as 1m and...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
...incorporate the human factor into the design process. A logical next step is the simulation of selected sequences in microgravity, during a parabolic flight, to validate techniques for human space missions, refine procedures and to attract industrial...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
... Keeper (Alice Laurentin, Isabel Cristina Martinez) This collection took inspiration from space food and packaging in microgravity and confined environments where sustenance is often in a freeze-dried and unattractive forms. Astronauts not only have...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... malt whisky distiller, became the first Scotch producer to send whisky samples to the ISS to investigate whether microgravity impacts the aging process of whisky. The experiment showed a clear difference between the control sample on Earth...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
...Earth is underwater, because it provides a neutral buoyancy, simulating microgravity, and so EAC built the Neutral Buoyancy Facility (NBF) ... it provides a neutral buoyancy, simulating microgravity This project is aimed at investigating innovative...
