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. The 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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