Making oxygen with magnets could help astronauts breathe easy
Friday, 12 August 2022 15:17
A potentially better way to make oxygen for astronauts in space using magnetism has been proposed by an international team of scientists, including a University of Warwick chemist.
The conclusion is from new research on magnetic phase separation in microgravity published in npj Microgravity by researchers from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, University of Colorado Boulder and Freie Universität Berlin in Germany.
Keeping astronauts breathing aboard the International Space Station and other space vehicles is a complicated and costly process. As humans plan future missions to the Moon or Mars better technology will be needed.
Lead author Álvaro Romero-Calvo, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder, says that "on the International Space Station, oxygen is generated using an electrolytic cell that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, but then you have to get those gasses out of the system. A relatively recent analysis from a researcher at NASA Ames concluded that adapting the same architecture on a trip to Mars would have such significant mass and reliability penalties that it wouldn't make any sense to use.
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Artemis I to launch first-of-a-kind deep space biology mission
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
Poised to launch on Artemis I from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, BioSentinel - a shoebox-sized CubeSat - will perform the first long-duration biology experiment in deep space. Artemis missions at the Moon will prepare humans to travel on increasingly farther and longer-duration missions to destinations like Mars, and BioSentinel will carry microorganisms, in the form of yeast, to fill WVU space robotics research helps Mars rovers find their footing
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
West Virginia University scientists have developed a way for extraplanetary rovers to use nonvisual information to maneuver over treacherous terrain. This research aims to prevent losses like that of the Martian exploration rover Spirit, which ceased communications after its wheels became trapped in invisibly shifting sands in 2010.
Space roboticist Cagri Kilic, a Statler College of Engine Antaris close seed funding round to accelerate development of software solutions for space
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
Antaris, the software platform provider for space, announced the company has closed a $4.2 million seed round of funding led by Acequia Capital and Possible Ventures. The round also includes investment from leading space tech investors Lockheed Martin Ventures, HCVC, E2MC and Ananth Technologies
"We created Antaris to make space easy," said Tom Barton, Co-Founder and CEO of Antaris. "Our p Intelsat and OneWeb partnership brings multi-orbit connectivity to airlines worldwide
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
Leading satellite communications companies OneWeb and Intelsat have signed a global distribution partnership agreement to offer airlines a seamless inflight connectivity (IFC) solution with the best combination of performance, coverage, and reliability on the market.
The partnership enables Intelsat to distribute OneWeb's ground-breaking low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite services to airlines HKATG tooling up for satellite mass production
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Limited (01725. HK), which is committed to promoting Hong Kong's industrialization and supporting Hong Kong's becoming an international innovation and technology hub announced on 2 August 2022 that HKSML, its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary entered into a fit-out contract regarding the 2/F and 8/F Advanced Manufacturing Centre (AMC) in Tseung Kwan O. The con Fleet Space' Exosphere Earth Scanning Technology tested at lithium exploration site
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
Fleet Space Technologies is delighted to announce the successful completion of a trial using its proprietary Ambient Noise Tomography (ANT) technology to faster and non-invasively find critical lithium deposits.
This was commissioned by Australia's newest lithium miner, Core Lithium, at its Finniss Project in Australia's Northern Territory. This is in line with its mission to provide the g Yale project brings creative expression to space flight
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
Picture a spacesuit. It's functional, and the mirrored visor is fun. But you can't dance in it. While the first astronaut to set foot on Mars probably won't pirouette or perform a jazz split on the planet's rust-colored soil, folks at Yale are nonetheless thinking about how to encourage artistic expression in space exploration.
In the spring course "The Mechanical Artifact: Ultra Space," Y New study of moon rocks finds they contain gases from Earth
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
A new study of six moon rocks has discovered proof that the moon includes chemical elements from Earth's interior - a finding that supports the theory that the moon was created when something smashed into Earth.
Doctoral research by Patricia Will at ETH Zurich found that six lunar meteorites found in Antarctica contained traces of helium and neon. Those gases, called noble gases, rarel Meteorite provides record of asteroids "spitting out" pebbles
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
In 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images of a geological phenomenon no one had ever seen before: pebbles were flying off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. The asteroid appeared to be shooting off swarms of marble-sized rocks. Scientists had never seen this behavior from an asteroid before, and it's a mystery exactly why it happens. But in a new paper in Nature Astronomy, researche Northwestern rocket to image supernova remnant
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
A Northwestern University astrophysics team is aiming for the stars - well, a dead star, that is.
On Aug. 21, the NASA-funded team will launch its "Micro-X" rocket from White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. The rocket will spend 15 minutes in space - just enough time to snap a quick image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, a star in the Cassiopeia constellation that exploded ap The future of NASA's laser communications
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
NASA uses lasers to send information to and from Earth, employing invisible beams to traverse the skies, sending terabytes of data - pictures and videos - to increase our knowledge of the universe. This capability is known as laser, or optical, communications, even though these eye-safe, infrared beams can't be seen by human eyes.
"We are thrilled by the promise laser communications will o Europe Ready For Artemis
Friday, 12 August 2022 07:00
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ESA and NASA are working hand in hand before the first Artemis mission to the Moon through a series of joint mission simulations. Teams based at the Erasmus Support Facility (ESF) at ESA’s ESTEC facility in The Netherlands, the German Space Operations Centre at ESA’s Columbus Control Centre in Oberphfaffenhofen and NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are combining their expertise in a series of exercises to ensure a successful launch.
When it comes to simulations, it’s important that not everything goes perfectly right as it recreates - in real time - different stages of the mission to
Momentus to cut costs as it prepares for next Vigoride mission
Friday, 12 August 2022 00:29
In-space transportation company Momentus plans to reduce spending to conserve cash while moving ahead with its next series of tug missions.
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