October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... identify and collect the local fine regolith sources available from aeolian, or wind-created, deposits within craters and beds and transport them to the habitat site. First, the sintering-capable rover of the pair...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
..., close to the lunar south pole. It has good conditions for communications and gets a lot of sunlight. Nearby craters could potentially contain ice beneath a surface of rock. We want the project to take 10 years after it is approved – with...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
... ancient past. The story of our origins is written in the bodies of comets and asteroids and in the impact craters they have left on rocky bodies of the Solar System. If we could just deploy a really bright light to someplace...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
... surfaces, and in particular of areas that are too dangerous for an astronaut to access (e.g. caves and steep slopes of craters or rims), was evaluated. The rover carried a set of newly developed manual sampling tools, a sample storage unit...
