Coral
Mars Habitat concept - what can we learn from this?
Andy sent me this Mars Habitat Concept (https://actu.epfl.ch/news/scientists-sketch-out-the-foundations-of-a-colony-/), which I had not seen before. It differs a lot from ous but it has one characteristic that we´ve discussed before - the concept of having a pressurized module inside of a protec...
Space Architect
Building Blocks
Proposal: Cubesat Technology Demonstrator for Plasma Magnet Sail
For those who don’t know, the plasma magnet sail is a type of magnetic sail invented by John Slough, which should be able to produce orders of magnitude more thrust than ion drives of similar power consumption. It has been tested in laboratory vacuum chambers, but not in space, which is important...
Student, engineering / plasma physics
Coral
Coral, an Open Lunar Space Program
Coral, the first decentralized space program to the Moon (https://medium.com/spacedecentral/introducing-coral-an-open-lunar-space-program-702e293c9869), has been many months in the making. We wanted to build a clear process for the community to finally collaborate on a space mission. We have bee...
Co-Founder, Space Cooperative
general
Two Asteroid Probe Missions Will Reach their Targets in 2018
The Christian Science Monitor published this superb, in-depth article about the Japanese Hayabusa-2 Mission to Asteroid Ryugu and the US OSIRIS-REX mission to Asteroid Bennu: Chasing asteroids: Dual missions sniff out clues to solar system's past
It opens with this great aspirational s...
Founder of Space Architecture as a Discipline
general
Small Multi Role Satellites in Lunar Orbit
A constellation of small multi role satellites providing lunar position system, 5G communication, lunar high resolution spectrography and space weather monitoring. These satellites would support lunar mineral mapping and identification of mining zones for future robotic missions. A lunar economy ...
Systems Engineer
general
Modular "Universally" Adaptable Support Craft
As a tentative proposal for a near- to mid- term project, I suggest the development of a Modular Universally Adaptable Support Craft. This would be composed of a "plug-in" command/control module, attached to a modular support frame. Other modular components would be attached as necessary for a gi...
Concepts Development, Organisation, Operations Specialist
Building Blocks
Proposal: Engineering Plants For Vertical Farms Feasibility Study
Engineering Plants For Vertical Farms Feasibility Study
Vertical farming with hydroponics offers a precise way to deliver scarce nutrients and water to plants in a way that uses more of the available space in an enclosed area. These features seem to make vertical hydroponic farming a perfect ...
Software Development/Government Design
Spaceship Earth
MELISSA like projects
Hello everybody, I would like to talk a little bit about the MELISSA project, is everyboy familiar with it ?
http://www.esa.int/OurActivities/SpaceEngineering_Technology/Melissa
Master student at the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture
Asteroid Commons
2018 Asteroid Science Intersections with In-Space Mine Engineering Results
The 2018 ASIME Symposium was held at the Université du Luxembourg https://asime.uni.lu/.
Recently, they posted the ASIME Abstract Book http://geophy.uni.lu/users/tonie.vandam/asime-2018/Abstract_book.pdf
The abstracts that grabbed my attention include the following (I added URLs where ...
Founder of Space Architecture as a Discipline
Lunar Odyssey
Whatever Happened to the Constellation Lunar Program?
As the prospect of returning humans to the Moon becomes a more frequent topic of discussion, it would be valuable to describe the circumstances that led to the demise of NASA’s last attempt: the Constellation Lunar Program that ran from 2004 to 2010. The Constellation Program poses a cautionary ...
Founder of Space Architecture as a Discipline
