March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
...around the inflatable and offers protection to the astronauts with respect to temperature fluctuations, micrometeoroids and solar radiation 3D printing in space The idea of Moon colonisation originated long before the age of space exploration. Recent...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... tenuous hot plasma), etc. On Earth we have atmospheric lightning (short duration plasma channels), the ionosphere (ionised by radiation from the Sun), discharges in sandstorms and in volcanic plumes, etc. Man-made plasmas can be simple everyday...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... the same in space. For CubeSats in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which is below the Van Allen radiation belts, radiation hardening isn’t a big issue and run of the mill electronics stand to last until the satellites naturally...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... itself, criticising his offhand assurances that exposure to cosmic radiation would not be a serious health risk. And Maddie ...low Earth orbit and generating experience with life-support and radiation protection above the Van Allen belts, as well as ...
