April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... two inch diameter chambers, it contains hundreds of images, poems, pieces of music, nano-objects, mechanisms and earthly samples intertwined through complex narratives that blur the boundaries between worlds seen and unseen. It is designed to direct...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
China’s space achievements have been well-documented: three space stations, multiple lunar missions including a sample return, plans for a Lunar Research Base and a number of Mars missions, to name but a few. In parallel, China ...
23 November 2018
3D printed body parts being studied for future astronauts
... plummeted back to Earth. The original program was comprised of 56 experiments, including the growth of small 2-3 millimetre samples of human cartilage tissue and the thyroid gland of a rodent from a hydrogel-based material. Building spare body ...
05 April 2019
Hayabusa2 probe 'bombs' asteroid to create a crater
... spacecraft will be able to descend to a lower altitude and collect some of the newly excavated material. This pristine sample, which could be packed with water and other organic material, will hopefully help scientists understand the...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... in the oven, ProSPA can process it by applying heat and by exposing it to selected reactants The progressive heating of the sample leads to a progressive release of volatiles that are either stored within ProSPA for later processing, or are directly...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... in-space operations to explore, select, collect and secure samples from the asteroid NASA’s first flight test of Orion ...to two different locations to identify, collect and contain samples for return to Earth. Advanced EVA systems under development ...
