April 2019
Cleaning up space
... of collision. Debris reduction methods In order to reduce debris, society must focus on both mitigation and removal. To do this we envision two broad solutions: End-of-life Services (“Don’t add any more debris to the orbital environment”) and...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... Braun, and under the editorial guidance of Cornelius Ryan, published a series of articles in Collier’s magazine in 1952-54 that envisioned the coming space age. These articles were later published in book form, including Across the Space...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
...a lunar logistics system are a ride to lunar orbit, a lander, a sampling acquisition and handling system, and, as we envision it, a return and Earth entry vehicle. With launch prices already dropping, foreign entrants, fierce competition and ...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
... 2001). Habitability research for space has received little systematic attention Accordingly, habitability has been re-envisioned as a viable contributor to both active and passive countermeasures for certain stressors. For instance, in the deep...
May 2021
Visions of beating gravity
... will become a necessity because the situation with my back will slowly degrade in the coming 15 years. What I envision are large space colonies in enormous revolving cylinders containing an entire infrastructure of apartments, hotels, logistics and...
July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... range of propulsion functions can be covered by this self-pressurising propellant, multi-mode propulsion systems have been envisioned to satisfy a wide variety of space missions. Mark-III resistojet using nitrous oxide propellant prepared for...
