February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... Cockell at the University of Edinburgh provided evidence showing that perchlorate salts, which are widely found in Martian regolith and are toxic to the growth of plants, under conditions of low temperature increase the activity of the enzyme...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
...LIQUIFER), researches how pavement elements, fabricated from lunar regolith can be laser sintered into infrastructure such as ...TRL) from three to five by testing the laser sintering of regolith simulants in a vacuum, where the laser steps in for a...
October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
... practical habitat designs which need to endure in ‘off-world’ landscapes and encompass natural resources. Along with regolith 3D printing methods, growing habitats from plants is also being considered, but there is still much research required...
24 March 2016
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Launched
...first space-based observations of meteors entering Earth's atmosphere); the Strata-I experiment (exploring regolith properties in microgravity and regolith interaction with spacecraft and spacesuit materials); the Gecko Gripper study (testing a gecko...
03 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx officially arrives at Bennu today
... officially arrive today at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, is the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security – Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx for short. This complex-sounding, state-of-the-art spacecraft is equipped with seven...
16 January 2019
China unveils future space plans
... mission whose goal is to land in the Mons Rumker region of Oceanus Procellarum, and return a 2 kilogram sample of lunar regolith, possibly from as deep as 2 metres. It is reported that the probe will carry on board, a Panoramic Camera (PCAM), Lunar...
