June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
... up to 400C. In addition, it is normal for one or two sides of a spacecraft to always be in shadow, thus allowing these sides to act as radiators, to dissipate heat coming from both the Sun and onboard electronics in the spacecraft itself, into deep...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
... typical satellite system with mainstream desktop computing platforms on Earth. A 10-year lag is observed between the radiation-hardened processors and the commercial devices available in retail stores. [1] Software and hardware often go hand in hand...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
.... The side-effects of weightlessness and prolonged radiation exposure aside, recent research has demonstrated that...UNCOPUOS) highlighted concerns of “biological, chemical, and radiation contamination”, the endangering of possible living organisms, and...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... its composition, this compound semiconductor alloy can span both the mid- and far-infrared, detecting radiation at wavelengths stretching out as far as 18 µm. Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Imaging and Sounding satellites will guarantee the...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... the inhabitants and their equipment, where the absence of an atmosphere and magnetic field demands protection from radiation exposure, temperature extremes, meteorite impact and lunar dust. The concept of colonising the Moon predates humankind...
28 August 2020
Clumps of bacteria could survive interplanetary journey, new study says
...known as Deinococcus, Deinococcus are among the most radiation-resistant micro-organisms that have been discovered and they...not so fortunate outer layer counterparts as a shield against radiation permeating space – a sort of herd survival mechanism – ...
