April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... Space Center’s contractor workforce all but shut its doors. The cancellation of Shuttle, which came at an already-volatile time during a recession, was devasting for the State of Florida. The impact was far reaching, and...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... industry have been affected. The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has led to unprecedented economic disruption and market volatility and although the space industry has been more resilient than other sectors during the crisis...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... the formation of Earth’s atmosphere [5], hydrosphere and biosphere. [6] A newer model suggests that a growing young Earth accreted volatile material from asteroids. [7] Once life formed and gained a foothold, the same types of impacts that delivered...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... is a class of small bodies known as carbonaceous chondrites that contain a significant amount of water, organic molecules and other volatile compounds that could have ‘seeded’ the early Earth, giving life a chance to start there. These observations...
06 April 2020
Planets can form second atmospheres rich in CO, new study shows
...years, scientists have discovered that planetesimal belts similar to our Kuiper belt – disks of material filled with volatile-rich planetesimals – could be a staple feature around many stars; at present more than 25 percent of stars have planetesimal...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... only of oxygen and hydrogen but also methane, as via Pioneer Astronautics’ CAVoR system. Fortunately, thermal extraction of volatiles is an easier low-g venture than ore mining/aqueous PGM extraction. Future tether systems could complement Deimos...
