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Gaia is a 2018 inflatable installation artwork by Luke Jerram currently in the library of Trinity Collage. It is a spherical replica of the Earth, with a diameter of 7 metres (23 ft), and named after the Greek primordial goddess Gaia, personification of the Earth. Several copies tour the world for temporary exhibitions, often accompanied by ...
Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) was a NASA mission to test inflatable reentry systems. [1] It was the first such test of an inflatable decelerator from Earth-orbital speed. LOFTID was launched on an Atlas V 401 in November 2022 as a secondary payload, along with the JPSS-2 weather satellite. [2]
Such an inflatable shield/aerobrake was designed for the penetrators of Mars 96 mission. Since the mission failed due to the launcher malfunction, the NPO Lavochkin and DASA/ESA have designed a mission for Earth orbit. The Inflatable Reentry and Descent Technology (IRDT) demonstrator was launched on Soyuz-Fregat on 8 February 2000.
Currently the main areas of research are being undertaken by Sierra Space and NASA.NASA is currently studying inflatable lunar bases with the planetary surface habitat and airlock unit [5] which is in an early prototype phase, and has conceptual proposals for utilizing expandable-technology space structures in cislunar and interplanetary crewed exploration spacecraft.
The Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) is designed to demonstrate aerobraking and re-entry from 18,000 miles per hour after separation from the launch vehicle adapter structure. [6] The space station concepts developed by Bigelow Aerospace is an example of an inflatable crewed orbital space habitat. [7]
NASA originally considered the idea of inflatable habitats in the 1960s, and developed the TransHab inflatable module concept in the late 1990s. The TransHab project was canceled by Congress in 2000, [7] [8] [9] and Bigelow Aerospace purchased the rights to the patents developed by NASA to pursue private space station designs. [10]
With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks focused Sunday on the contagious effects on human health. Under a brown haze over Dubai, the COP28 summit moved past two days of lofty ...
Genesis I is an experimental space habitat designed and built by the private American firm Bigelow Aerospace and launched in 2006. It was the first module to be sent into orbit by the company, and tested various systems, materials and techniques related to determining the viability of long-term inflatable space structures through 2008.