October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... ‘dust-devils’. Team SEArch+/Apis Cor of New York came fourth, focusing on regolith construction to provide radiation shielding and physical protection. Land, regulation and contamination Key future issues will be establishing the ‘ownership’ both...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... middle), are mounted on top of the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM, lower part). During cruise the MMO is shielded by a sunshield (not shown on this image). Understanding Mercury is crucial to developing a better understanding of the early processes...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... above our planet, the spacecraft will release the sample return capsule, which is equipped with a heat shield and parachutes to bring its celestial burden safely through our atmosphere and back to Earth. Analysed in a specially...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... space environment, being emitted both by the sun and galactic sources. Electronics that are not sufficiently shielded, and not specifically designed for radiation tolerance, will experience upsets, latch-ups and damage that...
February 2019
A universal spaceship design concept
... furthermore has the advantage of an inner hull wall cavity for heat distribution or an optional water-based radiation shielding, a whole variety of usage scenarios are enabled. The main intention of this research was to produce a basic, standard...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... along the southern coast of Britain. Spacecraft in geostationary orbit effectively became solar wind detectors as Earth’s magnetic shield buckled under the extreme solar wind pressure. Lacking today’s sensors, no one knew of the ultra-fast...
