March 2017
Space is open for business
... was also the acknowledgement that research in space is not an easy thing to take on. “It is not immediately obvious where microgravity experimentation can come in handy for industry,” explained Chris Bee, ESA Technology Transfer Broker for the...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
... wasn’t a single seed! The plants also showed significant morphological changes. Compared to Earth-control plants the microgravity plants had almost three times as many heads, while the culm (stem) was half the length...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... and robotic missions. ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti working on the TripleLux experiment, an investigation into the effects of microgravity on immune cells. A smoke detector deep in the belly of the Biolab rack on Columbus had to be replaced...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... and the Research and Technology Society of the USSR on non-rocket space transport systems and using microgravity for industrial purposes. He also holds a number of international patents relating to inventions in space transport...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... for 2017. Operational challenges Many on-orbit assembly capabilities face space environment challenges, such as microgravity, atomic oxygen (in LEO), radiation and micrometeoroid impacts. It may therefore be necessary to deploy a protective shell...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
... be useful, they are not entirely true representations of the space environment, especially when it comes to issues of microgravity and radiation. An international crew of researchers on MARS500 (from left): Alexey Sergeyevich Sitev (Russia), Romain...
