October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
... up three-dimensional structures by selectively melting and solidifying metal powders. The process is free from metallic moulds and configures complicated shapes very close to specification for final products at a sharply reduced manufacturing cost...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
... wear as well as biological growth - famously the Mir station, ISS’s predecessor, had surfaces pitted by fungi and mould. The single most challenging environment a spacecraft will face is during reentry, either to Earth - in the form of a reusable...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... lead to the degradation of the human race. After all, our Earthly civilization lives under the principle of ‘mould in a Petri dish’. After eating all the limited resources, it will die. Large-scale space exploration and...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... kit form the base or ‘lunar surface’, which could otherwise have been designed as a single piece of accurately moulded plastic. However, as one builds a crater in typical Lego pixelated-style, one realises that these sets should...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
Lunar rovers, Mars rovers… any planetary roving vehicle has wheels - unless, of course, it has legs and resembles a spider. Serial entrepreneur Pavlo Tanasyuk, Founder and CEO of Spacebit, takes a brief look at the history of rovers and explains why...
September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
...under such conditions. 3. Most ‘flight’ bacterial strains had increased antibiotic resistance compared to the control samples. 4. Mould forms of fungi showed more pronounced changes in antibiotic resistance after the flight, apparently due to changes...
