October 2025
Pioneering affordable and flexible access to near space
... and alternative approaches. Among these, B2Space is advancing efforts to make access to near space more affordable, sustainable and flexible. Founded in 2016 by a team of aerospace engineers and business leaders, B2Space was established to explore...
11 June 2024
IAC 2024 is already breaking records
... wait to welcome the whole space community to Milan on 14-18 October 2024! Under the motto 'Responsible Space for Sustainability' the congress programme will be offering the most comprehensive content to date covering all space disciplines. The...
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...
