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...
April 2025
South Korea’s rising rocket star
...on a hybrid first stage, using paraffin as the fuel and liquid oxygen (LOx) as the oxidiser, and a methane-LOx upper stage. ... on a hybrid first stage, using paraffin as the fuel and liquid oxygen (LOx) as the oxidiser, and a methane-LOx upper stage On...
April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
...“Interestingly, I was contacted by a guy who is interested in using our system on the Moon. His argument was that oxygen is going to be an abundant by-product of lunar industry and could be used in our gas driver. My historical position is that gases...
