Cambridge researchers are part of a European project testing graphene’s ability to protect spacecraft against the sticky, sharp dust on the moon’s surface – a challenge for lunar missions since the Apollo era.
Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses the intricacies of reusable spacecraft.
Cambridge students will be loading human screams onto a smartphone that will be blasted into outer space later this year. ̽»¨Ö±²¥public are invited to submit their screams, which will be emitted while in orbit at the same time as the phone records - to test if it’s possible to capture the sound of screaming in space.
Cambridge students have tested a parachute capable of safely landing a probe on Mars.
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