March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
... had surprising and interesting consequences for the approach to Ceres, and has provided a fascinating illustration of the creativity of trajectory designers and the powerful capability of ion propulsion. Throughout last year, the flight team had...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... ventures such as the MIT Management School’s ‘We Are Smarter than Me’, our Lunar Missions Labs will encourage creative online workshops where anyone, anywhere in the world, will be able to collaborate with others to solve real life...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... frequently used for marketing purposes.9 Many of them are remarkable breakthroughs achieved as a result of the demands for creativity and innovation needed in order to explore and develop space. However, the overall economic activity associated with...
October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
...// ROOM, December, 2014. - P. 60-65. 2: V.M. Petrov: The laws of development of technical systems // Methodology and methods of technical creativity. Theses of the reports and messages to the scientific and applied conference on 30 June - 2 July 1984...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... duty to preserve the planet. Sure, there are many more immediate dangers to Earth and we need to be considering creative solutions to those as well. But it is also possible to start pondering the ambitions that our rich and fantastically...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
According to ASTM F2792-12 (Standard Terminology for Additive Manufacturing Technologies), Additive Manufacturing (AM) can be described as, ‘a process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer’. AM enables the...
