October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... the spacesuit to design, and could incorporate sensor integration and wearable feedback in future designs. The explosion of commercial terrestrial communication applications based on multiple different standards and competing interests makes it hard...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... a missing simulant includes lunar pyroclastic material. Anorthosite is lunar highlands-like rock. The term ‘pyroclastic’ refers to explosive volcanism that occurs in many locations on Earth, and also some local regions on the Moon. The Apollo...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... (meaning about 62 percent of satellites still in orbit are non-functional debris) 500 collisions, break-ups and explosions (creating further fragmentation and debris) 8100 tonnes of space objects in orbit. The number of debris objects estimated...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
... by five US companies, offer different perspectives on how astronauts will live and work aboard the Gateway. The explosion of investment in smart control and diagnostic technologies today will also benefit exploration class missions. Spacecraft ECLS...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... is approximately 5800 kg. Its range depends on the warhead – which can be tactical atomic bombs, chemical or biological weapons or hi-explosive warheads - and is between 290 and 330 km. Iran tested an improved version of the Shahab-2 in 2010, which...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... was previously thought. This is one of the things that sensors on GPS satellites, originally designed to detect nuclear explosions, have told us over the past 10 years. An inventory of potentially hazardous asteroids has been created by the US Minor...
