November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
...into space in 1957. The effects of low, or zero gravity, were nevertheless not studied much before the first human ...access to the market and to ensure scientists think about low gravity environments as a commodity. The work will have to be done...
13 July 2022
Sustainability ethos is key driver for UK microgravity firm
... Norfolk, the firm also plans to corner a slice of the international space market with its world-leading zero-gravity drone and eco-friendly sounding rockets. Gravitilab claims it is the first UK-based company to provide end-to-end...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... their experiments and collect data in conditions that would be impossible to simulate on Earth. Discovery flights Zero Gravity Corporation (Zero-G Corp) in the USA became the first to offer commercial weightless flights to the general public in 2004...
02 May 2019
Blue Origin's 11th test flight ends in success
... New Shepard, the Space Exploration Initiative is flying several scientific payloads, as well as two projects that use zero gravity as a medium for works of art. Telepresent Drawings in Space uses graphite to create a drawing that could only have...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
...space environment. The experiments demonstrate how these materials react when exposed to atomic oxygen, radiation, vacuum, zero gravity, micrometeoroids and extreme temperatures. The experiments, sponsored by NASA, are performed at the MISSE facility...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
...and experienced by me for the first time. Teaching in zero gravity On-orbit demonstrations are quite different to what we’re used ... butterfly, fly to the sky and realise my dream.” Zero gravity was both challenging and amusing I was very touched that ...
