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Spiders easily attach to smooth surfaces thanks to intramolecular forces acting between tiny hairs on their feet and the substrate, even in vacuum or under water. This study looks at the spiders' attachment devices and a transfer to space applications. |
Spider attachment for space applications 
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A distributed computing enviroment at ESA |
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The ACT has been working on a project to exploit the idle time computing power of ESA employees' desktop computers. |
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Swarm intelligence for space applications |
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Swarm Intelligence is an emerging research field that studies the possibility of achieving complex undertaking using multiple agents interacting with simple rules. This paradigm can be used for space applications.... |
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Furoshiki Sounding Rocket Experiment |
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How a Japanese cloth gave the name to a sounding rocket experiment demonstrating a new way of constructing very large antennas in space... (more info) |
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Innovative Space Systems Design |
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Advancing space research is no longer just about swapping old components for new ones: the future of space flight is in using new systems, new architectures and exploring technologies to reinvent the design of space missions... |
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Global optimisation for spacecraft trajectory design |
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Ask ten engineers for the best orbit for a particular spacecraft and you’ll get ten different ideas. Each one of these missions will be the best for a certain reason, so the question becomes: what’s the best of the best? |
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A double-stage 4-grid ion engine |
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Recently, the Advanced Concepts Team in conjunction with Australia National University has succesfully tested a revolutionary new ion engine which dramatically improves performance over present thrusters... |
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Solar Power from Space |
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From the beginning of human history we have sought sources of energy systems to render our daily life more comfortable. As the centuries passed, different, more sofisticated fuels provided the corresponding evolution in available energy levels... |
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Biomimetics, a new approach to space systems design |
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Nature has implemented 550 million years of multicellular evolution, generating some 5-10 million species. There is thus much that engineers can learn from biology to emulate in their design of engineering - this discipline is called Biomimetics... |
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