July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... exchanger. The engine, called Sabre, is being developed by UK-based Reactions Engines. The US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), under a co-operative research and development agreement with Reaction Engines, is exploring technical details of the engine...
July 2014
Why become a cosmonaut? To preserve knowledge
... new activities on the ground. Alexander Gerst, German ESA astronaut, undertakes spacewalk training in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at NASA’s Sonny Carter Training Facility in preparation for his mission to the International Space Station in 2014 Equally...
July 2014
Space technology transfer portals and the chance progress of innovation
..., it found that it couldn’t test its device properly because of vibrations from the busy roads around its lab. The solution was to devise a method of cancelling out the external vibrations. Darwin has not proceeded beyond...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... Stephen Bowen practice microgravity techniques using the new space suits and tools in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at Johnson Space Center Astronauts will embark on complex in-space operations to explore, select, collect and secure samples...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... will then allow the study of cometary material with all the fabulous machines that we have in the labs, but which you cannot fly. But there may be some intermediate steps needed before we are at this...
December 2014
Necessity is the mother of invention
... processes and trials were carried out in order to save time. At the end of the process, after conducting lab tests, the most suitable solution was chosen. During that time, every one of the components was...
