August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... can be obtained from space-borne payloads. The 18-segment gold mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope is specially designed to capture infrared light from the first galaxies that formed in the early universe. Design of ground...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
The Lockheed Martin study is a high-level assessment to identify architecture drivers and science opportunities. There are some key tenets for this architecture. For this first human interplanetary mission, system redundancy and a self-rescue ...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
What is so special about the Plasma Crystal project? Doesn’t everyone know that a... no re-infection and wound healing was speeded up. No negative side effects reported. Wound healing Aim was to investigate whether plasma treatment could speed acute ...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
...US and allied national security communities - was reporting that a novel species it controlled, known internally...to astronauts. The species was characterised by Liberty’s Expeditionary and Special Projects team, led by Liberty’s Dr Kyle Landry, which ...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... in August 2016. As the European Space Agency (ESA) reported, a tiny piece of space debris hit its solar panels,... station’s robotic handyman, Dextre - also known as the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) - which is Canada’s contribution...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... of the workforce required”; Boeing replied that it hadn’t expected NASA to change requirements as often as it had. The same report cited NASA for inflating Boeing’s performance reviews and overpaying in “overly generous award fees” and recommended...
