February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
...like science fiction - but it’s reality. As human beings we can go to space and we have a destination there. It’s the International Space Station. I like to call it humanity’s outpost in space. Samantha Cristoforetti Without any doubt, it is the most...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
In space research, the International Space Station (ISS) is a symbol of peaceful interational collaboration in Earth orbit, and is intended to be used intensively as a one-of-a-kind laboratory for ...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... during short-duration (around two weeks) flight experiments aboard free flying satellites, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station (ISS). Longer duration (months and years) rodent analogue reproduction experiments aboard the ISS...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... carried the first men into Earth orbit would one day be replaced by international cooperation? This was the case with regard to the International Space Station (ISS), the starting point for a real multi-national cooperation project. There...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
.... ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has demonstrated centimetre-scale accuracy when docking with the International Space Station (ISS), while Sweden’s Prisma mission has demonstrated formation flying for brief periods, maintaining centimetre...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
...builds research and manufacturing systems into compact smart containers, called CubeLabs, installed in hubs on the International Space Station (ISS). We want to see the market develop and so, as much as possible, we try not to patent. However, at the...
