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...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... oscillations with energy input on the tether. Repair mechanisms and shielding may mitigate the damage created by the flux of smaller debris...crossed slowly enough that human passengers require strong shielding, so the first elevators will be cargo ...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
... observatory down to 38cm. It used two 2 kg free-falling cubes separated by 38 cm and linked by lasers. The spacecraft acted as a shield around them, protecting them from external sources. It manoeuvred around them using tiny micro-newton thrusters...
