10 January 2024
NASA announces delays to astronaut lunar missions
... and temperature control. NASA's investigation into unexpected loss of char layer pieces from the spacecraft's heat shield during Artemis I is expected to conclude this spring. Teams have taken a methodical approach to understand the issue, including...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...of space production: specialisation. Specialisation allowed for the problem of creating in a very short period of time a nuclear missile shield and the start of a wide range of space programmes, especially manned programmes. The main customer for the...
July 2014
In search of strategic stability
...would have been countered by a jointly-constructed defensive shield. It never happened, however. Even though serious ...seriously worsened, and the question of creating a missile defence shield as a way of avoiding retaliation is likely to come...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... occurred during that period. To protect the Mars travellers, heavy shielding via ‘storm shelters’ will be needed that make use of ... long flight period. To protect the Mars travellers, heavy shielding via ‘storm shelters’ will be needed that make use ...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
...to have a much higher density than any sintered material. This would have considerable benefits for radiation shielding in the surface environment. The permeability of basalt stone is also superior to that of a sintered process, which is often porous...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... from moons like our own giving planets stability and shielding them from asteroid collisions, and liquid inner cores ...of planets producing magnetic fields that can help shield atmospheres, to geological processes that can make or take ...
