February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
...modern infrastructure expands, and as the changing geomagnetosphere brings our shields against solar storms to a level that is only 15 per...space with only the very thin skin of planetary shielding protecting it from disaster. As our population expands...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... placed in orbit at Lagrange Point 2, where the spacecraft is shielded from the Sun and has a clear view of the whole night...slightly wider than usual payload, and with upgraded light shielding and stability. Twinkle will collect light from its target ...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... Ganymede phase. To perform its mission, the spacecraft will have a delta-V capability up to 2500 m/s, and a significant shielding mass will be provided for limiting the radiation on instrument and spacecraft systems electronics to a nominal 50 krad...
October 2017
Asgardia celebrates its first birthday
... and continuity of Asgardia’s presence in space, support the development of the necessary technologies - in particular those related to shielding the Earth from outer space threats (both human-made and natural) - and, finally, to set up habitable...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli tests a personal radiation shielding garment onboard the ISS during Expedition 53 in November 2017. Water... is used for its shielding properties and filled inside garment containers covering organs that ...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
.... ExoMars, due to land in 2021, will drill up to 2 m below the martian surface to search for life in the radiation-shielded subsurface environment. Alongside the drill, the rover hosts a series of analytical instruments including the Mars Organic...
