May 2024
Beyond Earth’s magnetic field
... but constitute a priority in the exploration of outer space by Russian scientists. Planning for space missions beyond low Earth orbit determines the need for further careful investigation of physiological effects of the reduced magnetic field on all...
02 April 2021
SNC unveils plan to build its own commercial space station
..., last year Axiom Space became the first commercial company to announce it would be constructing its own station in low Earth Orbit that will serve as a home to microgravity experiments, critical space-environment materials testing, and private and...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... now under development in different parts of the world for humans to move beyond Earth and low Earth orbit to explore and live in space, on the Moon, on Mars or in orbiting colonies. But leaving home is never easy, and space travellers moving out...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... life extension driving much of this revenue. This new market will be realised, first in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) and then medium and low Earth orbit (LEO), through logistics. Those space-based ‘cars’, forever on the road, that have...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... mass of the rocket and the (effective) exhaust velocity out of the nozzle. A high delta-v is required to reach low Earth orbit (LEO) to remain in space. A number of non-rocket space launch methods have been proposed, but none has...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... Starlink satellites by the end of 2020, it will single-handedly increase the number of operational satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) by 50 percent. SpaceX has received regulatory authorisation for 12,000 Starlink satellites, and recently sought...
