May 2019
Growing Australia’s space industry
...will include technologies to support space exploration - such as remote asset management using robotics, where some of our mining companies are already exploring opportunities. We also have businesses developing new rocket propulsion technologies and...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
.... To make space industry profitable, cheap energy will be required to power the extraction of raw materials from mining sites, as well as to drive the manufacturing facilities that will produce goods from those resources. Materials processing...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... million through the next decade. In the post-pandemic world, the current shift to remote and automated mining is only expected to accelerate. Data downlink: EO building steam A ‘cloudification’ of the satellite value chain is underway, and major...
February 2023
The scientific basis for lunar helium-3 production
... the creation of life support systems for space flights, permanent settlements on the planets and methods for mining minerals there. About the authors Vyacheslav A Bobin is a Chief Researcher at the Academician N Melnikov Institute of Mineral Wealth...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... that experienced by the 33 Chilean miners trapped at Copiapo mine in 2010. The miners stayed fit and mentally healthy for ...key decisions, interestingly it was the leadership strength of the mine foreman, Luis Urzua, that kept the group together and ...
December 2014
Motion capture
...or gas. This is particularly relevant in the UK, where there is still a large amount of surface deformation as a result of past coal mining. Many governments around the world plan to store captured carbon underground in the future – InSAR can be used...
