March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...metals, but it is also noteworthy that even hydrogen, oxygen, water or other volatiles in space can also be valuable....gold on Earth. Certain asteroids are loaded with hydrogen and oxygen, the components of rocket fuel. These asteroids can provide...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
The EDEN ISS consortium will design and test essential controlled environment agriculture (CEA) technologies using an International Standard Payload Rack (ISPR) cultivation system for potential testing onboard the International Space Station (ISS). ...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... systems would therefore need to maintain Earth-like internal conditions, approximately 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen, at roughly 101 kilopascals of pressure, in spite of the external environment. Local resources could be used to extract...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... cruise phase, such systems could be ‘evolved’, either to harvest oxygen in-flight [2] or to transfer it from a tanker aircraft while cruising...payload performance and safety by not carrying liquid oxygen aboard the aircraft during take-off. Breaking ...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
...elements needed for life as we know it: sulphur, phosphorus, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen. All of these criteria are...an observation of these UV emissions that a surplus of oxygen and hydrogen spectral lines were detected near Europa’s south ...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... water is present in summer. They would produce oxygen which will generate a greenhouse effect within half a...see such an expedition! Meanwhile, the enigma of the recent atmospheric oxygen loss of G2033 still remains to be elucidated. A real mystery...
