August 2018
Flying to the stars
...uploaded’ humans. In the target star system, large solar panels would unfold for powering the payload. Radiators on ...only be possible for a humanity that has command over its solar system resources. To circumvent this, we could significantly alter our...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
... defects, changing the electrical properties of the device and leading to circuit failure. This is particularly crucial for solar panels where displacement damage effects gradually reduce their power output. Radiation can also modify the intrinsic...
26 June 2019
LightSail 2 gets ready to make its debut in space
...the project themselves. The Society’s first prototype of a solar sail in 2005, the Cosmos-1 project, unfortunately never ...members, in preparation for the unfurling of the dual-sided solar sails, approximately 2 weeks after launch day commenced. Both...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
... years after Apollo 11, humankind had journeyed into the solar system and faced a new barrier, one that would... habitat the last rays of sun were glinting on the solar panel fields and the vegetation modules. The temperature was declining rapidly...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
... parabolic and a white ceiling which can be lowered. Before the construction of the megasatellite station can begin, a solar panel power system, mining rovers and a propellant factory on the surface of Ceres will need to be established. A factory...
14 December 2020
Systems shutdown as ISS suffers from power and oxygen failures
... being turned off. The International Space Station is powered by light from the Sun which is captured by a number of solar panels attached to the US Segment, the Russian Service Module (SM) and the Functional Cargo Block (FGB). However, because...
