December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... also to preserve the scientific integrity of the samples. This is especially crucial for samples from organic and volatile-rich objects, which are of interest from both a scientific and human exploration perspective. Ultimately, testing these...
October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
..., will not want to increase its business risk by taking on full-time staff while project workflows are volatile. To some extent, however, this is the more manageable of the risks for the business. Technology risk will...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... from natural objects in space. These materials might include both precious and non-precious minerals, as well as volatile gases and water. These resources could potentially be sold into multiple markets and applications, including supporting...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...-effective for recovering at least rare metals, but it is also noteworthy that even hydrogen, oxygen, water or other volatiles in space can also be valuable. The Planetary Resources website states, ‘In orbit, spacecraft propellant is a multi-billion...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... Moon. This image shows a resource prospector carrying a Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatile Extraction (RESOLVE) experiment, intended to find, characterise and map ice and other substances in almost permanently shadowed...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... (SLS), planned for 2018. LunarIceCube will use a compact broadband infrared (IR) instrument (BIRCHES) to investigate the origin of volatile gases on the Moon, their distribution, and ongoing processes at the lunar surface. To operate the infrared...
