May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
... growth and development of plants in weightlessness, both the correct methodology and the right equipment to regulate the water and air settings of the root environment were needed. The thermo-impulse method of monitoring the root...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
...in a favourable location and that it might have liquid water on its surface, the prospect of visiting an Earth-... of Earth. Most intriguing of all, its equilibrium temperature implies that water could be in a liquid state on its surface. Located at 4.2...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
...-2) contract, utilising Dream Chaser and an attached Shooting Star transport vehicle to carry critical supplies like food, water and science experiments to the station before returning to Earth with a gentle runway landing. Dream Chaser spaceplane...
12 May 2017
Warm Neptune with primitive atmosphere discovered
... but little cloud cover, although the planet is not considered a water world. This analysis is the best measurement of water to date on an exoplanet of this size. This primitive atmosphere also suggests that the planet most likely formed...
14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
...Is Not Enough, the microwave-sized spacecraft prototype extracts water from asteroids or other planetary bodies to generate steam... the poles of Mercury, asteroids — anywhere there is water and sufficiently low gravity,” explained Metzger. Metzger, who...
06 March 2019
Growing food from thin air to feed astronauts
...is called Solein, is made from just carbon dioxide (CO2), water, a small amount of trace elements and electricity. It is...dependant on weather, irrigation or even land; it breaks down water molecules to create hydrogen, mixes it with a sprinkling of ...
