February 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...lunar material under strict NASA control NASA claims that the samples are ‘a limited national resource and a future heritage’ and...prosecuted any individual thought to have obtained any lunar samples. Geostationary orbit has become its own economy, and...
01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
... asked for; “Orion does not have specific storage to match the HLS [Human Landing System] sample return volume. Sample return mass to Earth via Orion might require mission-by-mission decisions on storage within Orion and...
01 December 2020
China's Chang'e 5 probe successfully lands on the Moon
...around 14 Earth days. Chang'e-5 is the world's first moon-sample mission in more than 40 years, and Chinese space engineers ..."We designed two methods for the spacecraft to collect samples. One is to sample the lunar surface, and the other is to drill...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
...distiller, became the first Scotch producer to send whisky samples to the ISS to investigate whether microgravity impacts the ... Director of Distilling and Whisky Creation, with the sample of Ardbeg distillate from space. The experiment demonstrated ...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... the information gain recommends that we collect as many samples as possible within the allowed budget. Encouragingly, this ... of life) is limited by the number of planets in the sample, but the second (photosynthesis) is limited by the number of...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...truly representative of these noble gases and their isotopic ratios, a sample of the atmosphere has to be acquired where the atmosphere is ...final mapping orbit at the Moon. Cupid’s Arrow would sample the atmosphere using a compact, yet very precise, ...
