July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
...phase of a parabola during an ESA parabolic flight campaign. And it isn’t just members of the public seeking the weightless experience. Novespace has also provided special flights on-demand for a variety of commercials, photo shoots, television shows...
May 2021
Visions of beating gravity
... anymore. Oops! Another option to get rid of gravity is swimming. When floating in water, you experience a certain degree of weightlessness. However, this solution is not very convenient for my work, because a laptop and water don’t mix very...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
.... They are now benefiting from a competitive advantage gained by being among the first industries to ‘commercialise’ weightlessness. Many questions and opportunities will arise in the coming years as launch costs go down. And if travelling...
October 2024
Off-Earth risks to the human skeleton
... is no doubt that the duration and frequency of human spaceflights will increase in the future. However, the exposure to weightlessness and confined spaces sharply reduces the functional load on the human skeleton and affects bone health...
November 2016
Simulating space in a bathtub
... of movement During the first years of using this simulation model, research concentrated mostly on describing the effects of weightlessness on the human body. First and foremost, the studies looked at vital body functions - the cardiovascular system...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
...weak gravity of Mars is arguably just as dangerous as prolonged weightlessness. The population of the planetary colonies living in ‘hypogravity’ ... in that case differs from the effects of weightlessness only by its delayed timing. Compact short-radius...
