March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
..., pleating and lacework, but also machine-made dresses but tailored as handmade, thanks to new technologies like laser cutting, thermo-shaping and circular knitting, or items digitally produced by 3D printing. The early 1980s film Blade...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... communication is radio frequency (RF) communication, used by Project Loon, SpaceX and OneWeb. A new, emerging technology is laser communication, used by Facebook’s drones. These new approaches to providing internet connections from the sky or space...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... environment experiment on NASA’s Mars 2000 Odyssey spacecraft, plus information about Mars’ surface elevations from the laser altimeter instrument on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor. In addition, human discomfort with drinking recycled urine might also...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... (140 km from Perth), the Western Australia Space Centre (a commercial satellite tracking facility) and NASA’s Mobile Laser Observatory, both located at Dongara, about 400 km from Perth. None of these sites, however, are open to visitors...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... and Marshall, is another mission slated to explore the lunar south pole for ice deposits. It will use laser spectroscopy to identify the presence of water ice. The spacecraft will be fitted with a green-monopropellant propulsion system...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... light) in the visible and infrared spectrum, while active sensors acquire the backscattered light generated by an onboard laser - generally called a LIDAR (LIght Detection and Ranging). Some of these sensors can offer the capability to resolve...
