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...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... undergo meticulous sanitation and sterilisation to minimise the chances of microbes being transported from Earth to the space environment. Further, the Policy aims to prevent backward contamination, or minimise the hazard posed by the introduction...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
... conventional wisdom... The cockpit of a space shuttle. Investment in space technology is essential for economic growth. ... become the problem. This means that in the current environment existing economic tools are no longer providing growth of the...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... space environment. Similarly, Australia recently began a review of its own civil space regulation: The Space Activities act of 1998, and The Space Activities Regulations of 2001. In seeking to facilitate a pro-growth environment in space...
