February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... the optical doubles of gamma-bursts (creation of black holes), supernovae (collapse and/or nuclear burn of dying stars), novae (star collisions and/or nuclear burning around white dwarves), dwarf novae (non-stationary falling of matter onto white...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... Sun and environmental conditions, the surface area of the requisite solar arrays would need to be impractically large. Nuclear power, either through fission or radioisotope emission, would likely be more efficient in terms of mass than solar power...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... propulsion whereby chemical rockets give way to ion and/or nuclear based propulsion. The impracticality of chemical rockets for travel ... of Defense. More exotic forms of propulsion such as nuclear and matter/anti-matter appear to be in the distant...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
...sufficiently long time (also called Lawson criteria) this results in nuclear fusion. Voyager 1 flies at an astonishing velocity of 17... the power generated by a large coal-fired power plant or nuclear plant) only generates a force of a few newtons. One...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...a range of -140 to +20 degrees C. Extensive photovoltaic (PV) or nuclear-powered generators will be needed to make the system work. However, ... the mid-latitude Utopia Planitia area. Using nuclear power to unlock water from excavated ice will...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
...pong drove SEPs into Earth’s high-latitude atmosphere, creating nuclear interactions whose by-products were measured at the ground as... intervention was required to keep the space-based Vela nuclear test-ban detectors on task. Even as observers and...
