October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
... than expected. The recurring cost hikes of the operation were an unpleasant surprise. In the near future, space transportation systems are expected to become fully reusable through the application of advanced technologies and stringent requirements...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... one of three selected by NASA for its Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown (CATALYST) initiative to advance ...the USSR Space Federation and the Research and Technology Society of the USSR on non-rocket space transport systems and...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... recycling of human waste from off-grid dwellings Robotics, artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfacing Space transport systems. One can, therefore, imagine Planetopolis as a company whose initial business plan is based on the manufacture...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... and technology centre, which worked under the aegis of the USSR Space Federation and the Research and Technology Society of the USSR on non-rocket space transport systems and using microgravity for industrial purposes. He also holds...
10 June 2020
New map boosts chances of finding water on the Moon
... propellant and used as rocket fuel. Manufacturing propellants in space eliminates the need to transport fuel as heavy payload from Earth, thus dramatically lowering the cost of space transportation beyond low Earth orbit; benefits that will also aid...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
...questions regarding whether this design could be further enhanced to use part of this overall structure as a sort of space transport way-station for transitioning from chemically fuelled rocket launchers to much more efficient electric ion propulsion...
