The works will be sent in commercial shipments in tandem with NASA’s Artemis missions.
Adam Schrader, July 31, 2023.
This comes a month after OceanGate’s submersible imploded in the ocean, killing all five on board.
The deep-sea disaster last month, which killed five on board an OceanGate submersible, is not a hurdle in the plans of its co-founder.
In an interview with Insider, Guillermo Söhnlein revealed that he has much bigger plans for the company. He said he wants to send 1,000 humans to live in Venus’ atmosphere by 2050.
This technology promises to revolutionize spacecraft design, save space, and enhance communication capabilities, opening up new frontiers for exploration and discovery.
In the vast expanse of space, engineers constantly push the boundaries of innovation to do more with less. Today’s small spacecraft is equipped with sensors, guidance and control systems, and operating electronics, making efficient use of every available space. But what if we could take it a step further and revolutionize the way we integrate electronics into these spacecraft?
Recently, aerospace engineer Beth Paquette and electronics engineer Margaret Samuels from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,… More.
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The space race has been revived, but this time, the goal post has been shifted much further – to Mars. As recent technological advancements promise to open new horizons of exploration, NASA plans to cut the travel time to Mars with a nuclear-powered spacecraft.
A trip to Mars currently takes approximately seven months, covering a staggering 300-million-mile journey. NASA, in collaboration with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), now proposes an ambitious plan that hinges on the promise of nuclear thermal propulsion technology to reduce this duration significantly.
NASA aims to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft, known as DRACO (Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations), into Earth’s orbit either by late 2025 or early 2026. The spacecraft, under construction by Lockheed Martin, a leading aerospace and defense company, will serve as a testbed for this groundbreaking technology.
SpaceX and NASA are working to include Starship in an architecture of low Earth orbit opportunities by considering the massive spacecraft for use as a space station.
Reducing reliance of aninmal experimentation. 🐀
According to the team, this new unparalleled technology facilitates the precise manipulation of biological materials, enabling the creation of highly sophisticated and realistic organoids that closely mimic the complexity of the corresponding human organs.
The cutting-edge magnetic and acoustic levitation will bioprint heart models to improve protection against radiation both in space and on Earth.
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Living without gravity spells disaster for the human body. Even a few weeks in microgravity can lead to issues with circulation and vision; over the longer term, the complications compound even further. The heart begins to degenerate and atrophy. Bones turn thin and brittle.
But what about Martian gravity, which is around 0.38 that of Earth? Or somewhere in-between — 0.16 G on the moon, or 0.91 on Venus? How do these gravity levels affect the body, plants and other organisms, even manufacturing processes? We have astonishingly few answers to these questions.
gravityLab wants to find some. The company is developing a spinning spacecraft that will be able to generate what co-founder and CEO Grant Bonin calls “programmable gravity.” The spacecraft will be equipped with a motorized boom that can extend and retract a counterweight. By dynamically varying the length of the boom and the rotation rate, the company says it will be able to control the acceleration of gravity inside the spacecraft.
By harnessing magnetic and acoustic fields, the PULSE project is developing 3D-printed hearts that’ll be launched to the ISS in 2027.
