December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... combination with the space industry, is a powerful tool to support European policies aimed at achieving an affordable, secure and sustainable energy system. The main objective of the S&E initiative has two action lines: develop technologies for 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 ...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... decades, NASA and others have studied the radiation problem and searched for solutions. Left unchecked, sustained exposure to space radiation will make long-duration manned missions beyond Earth’s ionosphere dangerous and, in some...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
... worlds out there, how many there were, what they were like and whether or not they sustained life. Unfortunately, our ability to detect exoplanets lagged a long way behind our ability to imagine them but...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... to conduct photosynthesis could be one of the solutions. Commonly known as algae, these organisms are not only critical to sustaining life on Earth but they could be the key to providing sustenance and breathable air on board future spacecraft...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
The key to a sustainable future in space is developing and utilising space resources. Space resources will anchor a robust economy in cislunar space (‘...
