May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
...process and send to Earth collected data on the plants’ environment and the conditions of the greenhouse modules. In 1990, ... data obtained on root moisture levels during these space experiments provided the necessary information to allow astronauts ...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
... testing, NASA, with support from the European Space Agency (ESA), has conducted a series of space experiments to determine the best materials to survive in the space environment. One outstanding experiment involved placing a bus-sized cylindrical...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... applications at ISIS. His main focus remains on Earth imagery, radiation environment monitoring and educational projects with CubeSats. He has been involved in several space missions that are currently flying today for different countries around the...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... to adequately address the challenges posed to the sustainability of the space environment and future space activities. As such, a number of private and government space organisations and research institutions are actively conducting studies on the...
January 2023
Producing food in space
... on exploited animals, fertilisers dependent on fossil fuels and farmland that could be reforested. Planning for the hostile environment of space does away with all of that immediately and allows us to design more resilient food systems for Spaceship...
18 January 2022
First of 40 planned launches for China
...officials said Shiyan 13 will be used for space environment data collection and technology tests but did not ...currently three astronauts on China’s Shenzhou 13 spacecraft on the Tianhe space station. They were launched in October and, if the planned ...
