June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
...will be made available for authorised experimenters to demonstrate new, innovative mission operation concepts in a representative space environment. To allow as many experiments as possible, OPS-SAT is fully reconfigurable in every possible way, from...
June 2015
Re-usable rockets: a new breakthrough for suborbital research
...benefits of balloon flights will foster many new REM applications in space, and we are proud to already be involved in demonstrating...imaging of the upper atmosphere to study its meteoroid environment, and an education payload centred on detecting the ...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
Building a space colony that will protect and sustain a population of hundreds or even thousands of colonists in an environment that is hostile to human life presents huge technological and economic challenges. One of the greatest challenges for ...
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 ...
