January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... include propellants or power system fuels in addition to life support oxygen and water. The Trash to Gas team at NASA’s Kennedy Space...in the Space Station Processing Facility at KSC. An oxygen and steam-rich environment was created within the reactor...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
...the heliopause is not a ‘hard’ boundary since solar-system oxygen leaks through and is found in the heliosheath mixing with the ... matter enriched with elements like carbon and oxygen into intergalactic space and magnetising the intergalactic ...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
...to help prepare the way for humans, a device that pulled oxygen out of the Martian atmosphere, and a weather station. These...first flight the importance is learning. This launch vehicle uses oxygen and methane and these propellants can come from Mars. ...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... can be effectively protected by multi-metre layers of fuel in the tanks. The low molecular weight of methane and oxygen increases the shielding efficiency. The optimal configuration of the construction for 1000 ships is a sphere, the surface...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... an example of these ‘invisible’ textiles that solve challenging situations while living in space. Membrane modules supply freshwater, oxygen, and energy in a spacecraft. They are also used for human waste management, separation of gas from liquids...
October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
...of Burgandy, Dijon, France. His expertise lies in the analysis of traditional stable isotopes (hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulphur) of sedimentary archives in order to place constraints on the biological and geochemical evolution of Earth...
