October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... space shuttle. In 2012, the Curiosity rover’s “Seven Minutes of Terror” to the Martian surface, which included a heat shield, parachutes, and skycrane, maxed out our current ability to land something on the surface of Mars – the one...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... dust-desert, with rocks eroded into strange shapes? Now it is a blistering, hostile hell-planet, with massive shield volcanoes, sulphuric acid rain and lightning bolts. Exploring Mars with mobile laboratory (Digital), from ‘Futures...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... will also directly support space exploration initiatives by providing the water, fuel, raw materials and radiation shielding needed for humans to explore deeper into the Solar System and for longer periods of time. Opportunity...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
...constellations of hundreds or even thousands of satellites will be placed in orbit. In this environment, satellites will require shielding and, correspondingly, heavier launch solutions. Firms will need replacement satellites, more robust distributed...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... and flares, known as coronal mass ejections. Changes in Earth’s magnetosphere which result in the destruction of the protective shield that could deflect coronal mass ejections. Potentially dangerous asteroids and comets, which could lead to mass...
October 2016
Unlocking the potential of annular ion engines
... [HETs], as embodied by the commercial HET (BPT-4000) [5], and the 12.5 kW HET (Hall Effect Rocket with Magnetic Shielding, or HERMeS) under co-development by NASA and JPL for the Solar Electric Propulsion Technology Demonstration Mission (SEP...
