15 January 2021
Orion now ready for its Moon mission later this year
... exploration vehicle that will one day carry astronauts to space, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel, and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities. Orion is equipped with a European-built...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... Branson’s venture Virgin Galactic is another example of a commercial foray into what was previously a governmental monopoly on space travel and exploration. Seeing that physical satellite size was shrinking, Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... inquiry that needs attention. It is argued, however, that the need for embedding environmental ethics within space travel to ensure continued sustainable access to space presents the single most pressing area of attention given the dramatic increase...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... dysrhythmias, life-support systems, mental health, and public health. Radiation Radiation is a major challenge for human space travel. Away from Earth’s protective magnetic field, two key types of radiation are of concern: solar particle events...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... with one of the asteroids when it passes the Earth and travel with it until it approaches the Red Planet. In one version...-protected, artificial gravity orbital stations near colonised planets. Space settlements on the Moon, Mars, Ceres, Titan and...
18 July 2017
Why the space programme needs civil engineers
... planets. As they get older, they realise that only a small minority of people becomes astronauts and that space travel isn’t what they once imagined. But many still want to work in the field. It’s exciting and there...
