by Gordon Roesler | Oct 4, 2019 | News
A great summary of the current projects: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/how-nasa-will-grapple-and-refuel-a-satellite-in-low-earth-orbit It looks like DARPA’s RSGS and NASA’s Restore-L will both get to orbit in 2022. RSGS is headed...
by Gordon Roesler | Sep 5, 2019 | News
In late July, over 200 researchers, engineers and managers gathered in Laurel, Maryland, for the 2019 Lunar ISRU Workshop. ISRU stands for In-Situ Resource Utilization. In other words, the meeting was all about using what can be found on the Moon–to support...
by Gordon Roesler | Jul 25, 2019 | News
Some of the craters at the Moon’s poles are shallower than typical impact craters. It has just been suggested that the “fill” material could be largely water ice, as is true at Mercury: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-moon-thought.html Of course, the...
by Gordon Roesler | Jun 3, 2019 | News
This week, specifically June 6-9, is the International Space Development Conference in Arlington, Virginia. Traditionally, this is the conference where new thinking and radical ideas receive a hearing from a broad, like-minded audience. My talk is at 11 AM on...
by Gordon Roesler | May 26, 2019 | News
The firm Global Market Insights has taken a look at coming demand for space robotics:...
by Gordon Roesler | May 25, 2019 | News
NASA has decided to include the Lunar Orbiting Platform-Gateway in its architecture for returning to the Moon in 2024. Ultimately to consist of several modules, the first module must be the one that keeps everything in the correct orbit. This module is called the...
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