July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... NASA under the Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS-2) contract, utilising Dream Chaser and an attached Shooting Star transport vehicle to carry critical supplies like food, water and science experiments to the station before returning to Earth...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... surfaces from orbit. The Transit Configuration is essentially identical for both trans-Mars and trans-Earth transportation of the crew and consists of two copies of all modules that are necessary for safe crew return...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... and entertainment, which have failed to drive the economy. Whereas what he calls the ‘Great Inventions’ concentrated in transportation, energy and manufacturing drove incredible economic growth, and benefited our entire society during that amazing...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
... receive on their mobile phones. Streams of mud Ocean colour data also support the tracking of coastal sediment transport. In extreme cases, the concentrations are so high that they become true ‘streams of mud’. Nevertheless, sediment tracking...
May 2020
Time to discuss regulations for future interplanetary trade
... Trade Organization rules and national legislations are applied; trade is carried out with binding forms of payment, transport and delivery; and customs procedures are regulated through institutions such as the World Customs Organization? It should...
June 2022
Space logistics: achieving end-to-end mobility for space
... on our capability to provide logistics - the movement and management of materials. Throughout history, we have developed our capability to transport goods and people by land, water and air using more and more sophisticated and organised networks...
