March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... around humans, which saves a considerable amount of labour attempting to qualify a new battery design. Furthermore, the RP flight software is based on that built and successfully flown on the LADEE mission. Another topic affecting both cost and...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
... structural elements - both for spacecraft and launcher applications - the use of 3D printing combined with topology optimisation software has allowed a move from traditional to ‘bionic’ design, placing material in response to loads borne by the item...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
The nascent commercial entities focusing their business plans on the commercial potential of space resources utilisation are operating at the bleeding edge of current space-related legal and regulatory frameworks. Governments are in initial stages ...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... vehicle, Soyuz-STA and Soyuz-STB, to take greatest advantage of Soyuz flight experience. While the flight software has been adjusted to new trajectories from Guiana, the main onboard adaptation consisted of the introduction of a safety...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... competencies - aspiring nations like India could also gain significantly in exchange for competencies in launch, medicine, software, etc. After all, India’s Mangalyaan successfully entered Mars orbit on its first attempt while China’s splashed...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... States. Antarctic Dry Valleys from low Earth orbit based on a NASA Landsat 7 photograph and using ArcGIS software. The invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using the heat-resistant enzyme Taq DNA polymerase...
