Space Architecture News 2023

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Thomas Page  | 16 May 2023  | CNN

 The road to Mars is long and fraught with peril. One challenge is getting humans to the red planet; another is ensuring that once they’ve arrived they’ll be able to manage life there.

To prepare astronauts for an extended stay on Mars, NASA’s latest simulated mission, CHAPEA – Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog – will isolate four people inside a mock-Mars base in Texas for 378 days – roughly the time a manned mission to Mars would spend on the surface. More

 Nour Fakharany  | 06 April 2023  | archdaily

The Cyprus Pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia has announced its exhibition. The pavilion will explore the first early settlements of the Cyprus Aceramic Neolitih Khirokitia, using these communities as a springboard to discuss social sustainability challenges in a humanistic and cultural framework.  More

 Paula Cano  | 12 April 2023  | archdaily

 From inflatable and 3D-printed structures to entire habitats, architecture plays an unprecedented role in space exploration missions. As NASA plans for long-term human exploration of the Moon and Mars under Artemis and CHAPEA missions, new technologies are required to meet the unique challenges of living and working in another world.  More

 Rima Sabina Aouf   | 03 May 2023  | dezeen

 The European Space Agency is investigating the possibility of setting up solar arrays in space in the hope that access to 24-hour sunlight will help to overcome issues of energy intermittency on Earth.  More

Dan Martin | 17 March 2023  | SPACENEWS 

Rolls-Royce scientists and engineers are to research how nuclear power could be used to support a future Moon base.

The UK Space Agency has given the Derby-based firm £2.9m to look at ways of powering future lunar settlements. More

Jeff Foust  | 29 January 2023  | SPACENEWS 

 Agency leaders met at the Kennedy Space Center for what NASA calls the Architecture Concept Review, a meeting linked to the development of 63 objectives for its lunar and Mars exploration plans released in September.  More

  Eytan Tepper, Scott Shackleford  | 14 December 2022  |  SPACE.com 

 China's space station is an achievement that solidifies the country's position alongside the U.S. and Russia as one of the world's top three space powers. More

Elizabeth Howell  | 12 December 2022  |  SPACE.com 

  Sierra Space completed this test to prepare for Orbital Reef, a private space complex to replace the International Space Station.  More

Alice Finney | 6 December 2022  | dezeen    Space agency NASA has awarded construction company ICON a $57 million contract to develop 3D-printing technology to build roads, launchpads and homes on the moon's surface. 

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 Anna Marks | 3 November 2022  | dezeen

  German studio Atelier Brueckner and its design partners have created an immersive exhibition at the Museum of the Future in Dubai that aims to investigate the world in 2071.Named Journey of the Pioneers, the permanent exhibition was created for the recently opened Museum of the Future, which was designed by local studio Killa Design.  More

 John Paul (JP) Parker   | 14 August 2022  | spacenews

Policy makers are right to expect the national security establishment to find ways to fully leverage the innovations and investment in commercial space capabilities like launch and imagery.  More

 Andreea Cutieru   | 02 July 2021  | ArchDaily

   Invited to participate in the 17th International Venice Architecture Biennale, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) exhibits Life Beyond Earth, a vision for a Moon Village.  More

 Rima Sabina Aouf | 11 August 2022  | dezeen

Tyre-maker Goodyear has announced it will join aerospace company Lockheed Martin and car manufacturer General Motors to develop a vehicle for NASA's next lunar landing, set for 2025 .   More

Alice Finney  |  18 July 2022  | dezeen

  Researchers from space agency NASA are building a swarm of mobile phone-sized robots to swim through oceans on moons in space in search of extraterrestrial life.   More

 Alice Finney  |  14 July 2022  | dezeen

 Welsh startup Space Forge has developed the ForgeStar-0 satellite, which will make electronic components and materials that are "impossible to manufacture on Earth" in space.   More

 Matthew Burgos | 11 July 2022 | designboom

 Kyoto University and Kajima Construction Co., Ltd. have agreed to start their research toward the realization of ‘The Glass’, a cylindrical living architecture with artificial gravity set to be constructed in outer space to make living on Mars and the moon possible.  More

Tom Ravenscroft | 18 June 2022 | dezeen

    Recently, MIT researchers revealed a proposal to fight climate change by creating a floating shield the size of Brazil using "space bubbles" that could reflect the sun's rays. More 

Alice Finney | 27 May 2022 | dezeen

   Researchers at MIT Media Lab have tested modular tiles that autonomously assemble to create habitats in space on the latest mission to the International Space Station. More 

Rima Sabina Aouf | 3 March 2022 | dezeen

  A German feminist art group has revealed a vulva-shaped spaceship concept, which it is encouraging the European Space Agency to help realise in order to better represent humanity in space and "restore gender equality to the cosmos." More 

Andreea Cutieru | 16 February 2022 | ArchDaily

Danish Architecture Center's most recent exhibition, A Space Saga, explores life in a lunar habitat, providing an insight into the considerations that would shape space architecture, as new lunar missions are on track for 2025. More

James Parkes | 24 January 2022 | dezeen

 Ukrainian architecture practice Makhno Studio has designed a 3D printed settlement for Mars named Plan C that would encircle the edge of a crater. More 

  James Parkes | 3 June 2021  | dezeen

  Research studio Lithuanian Space Agency has imagined a fictional world in outer space that would be created from people 3D-scanned at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.  More

Belén Maiztegui     | 5 April 2021 | ArchDaily

February 2021 has been a historical month for Mars exploration. While humans have been exploring the red planet for well over 50 years, first landing on its surface in 1971 and then launching the first successful rover in 1997, this year has seen several firsts, namely the first time that three countries have launched three simultaneous probes. More

 Lizzie Crook | 10 August 2021 | dezeen

 Bjarke Ingels' studio BIG is collaborating with construction technology company ICON and NASA to create Mars Dune Alpha, a 3D-printed structure designed to simulate living on Mars. More 

 Tom Ravenscroft | 7 April 2021  |  dezeen

Architecture studio Abiboo has designed the concept for a self-sufficient city on Mars named Nüwa that could be built in 2054. More 

Katherine Guimapang | 7 January 2021 | Archinet

2020 taught us to embrace the indoors. However, as the world enters 2021, some may feel more propelled to seek out shelters that can protect them from calamity.  More

Kaley Overstreet   | 27 November 2020 | ArchDaily

 In the 1960s, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia and Adolfo Natalini, two Florence-based architecture students in their twenties, decided to undertake the substantial task of designing a new way for the citizens of the globe to inhabit the earth.   More

 Christele Harrouk  | 28 January 2020 | ArchDaily

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has signed a Memorandum of Collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) in order to further develop their existing research for Moon Village.  More

 Soledad Sambiasi  | 25 November 2019 | ArchDaily

   In recent years, an increasingly broader spectrum of professionals as well as entrepreneurs and investors have joined the challenge of designing extraterrestrial built environments, the new space race of the 21st century.  More

Anastasia Tokmakova |  21 June 2017 | Archinet

  Designers from IKEA are exploring space-saving solutions for tiny homes by living in an actual Mars research station.  More

 Elizabeth Howell   | 28 June 2022 |  SPACE.com

 NASA successfully lofted the first of a trio of sounding rocket missions to study Alpha Centauri from Australia, in a historic agency first. More

 Carolyn Collins Petersen | 12 July 2022 |  UNIVERSE TODAY 

 Well, this is the week for distant galaxies, isn’t it? Not only has JWST revealed some of the most distant ones ever seen in infrared, but other observatories are studying them, too.   More

Matt Williams  | 12 July 2022 |  UNIVERSE TODAY 

 This is it! Today, people worldwide were treated to the first images acquired by James Webb! After years of delays, we are finally seeing the sharpest images of the Universe taken by the most powerful telescope ever deployed.  More

 Laurance Tognetti | 12 July 2022 |  UNIVERSE TODAY 

NASA’s car-sized Perseverance (Percy) Mars rover has been had at work carrying out its science campaign in Jezero Crater on the Red Planet, but it’s equally been busy scouting for sites for NASA’s planned Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, which is a joint mission with the European Space Agency.  More

 Laurance Tognetti | 11 July 2022 |  UNIVERSE TODAY 

 After exploring Mars for more than a year, China’s Tianwen-1 space probe has successfully taken images covering the entire Red Planet, China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on June 29.  More

 Evan Gough   | 11 July 2022 |  UNIVERSE TODAY 

   When Galileo pointed his telescope at Jupiter 400 years ago, he saw three blobs of light around the giant planet, which he at first thought were fixed stars. More

Matt Williams  | 11 July 2022 |  UNIVERSE TODAY 

  One look at the Planetary Decadal Survey for 2023 – 2032, and you will see some bold and cutting-edge mission proposals for the coming decade.   More

 Carolyn Collins Petersen | 10 July 2022 |  UNIVERSE TODAY 

 The story of our solar system’s origin is pretty well known. It goes like this: the Sun began as a protostar in its “solar nebula” over 4.5 billion years ago.  More

Tom Ravenscroft | 14 June 2022 | NASA

NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a televised broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. More

 Jiuquan, China (XNA) | 13 December 2022 | SPACEDAILY

China on Monday launched a Long March-4C rocket, placing a pair of satellites in space. More

07 October 2022 | HT TECH

   Although the DART test was successful, it is yet not known whether the asteroid was actually deflected.  More

By: Jeff Foust   | 26 September 2022 | SPACENEWS

   A NASA spacecraft collided with a moon orbiting a near Earth asteroid Sept. 26 in a demonstration of a technology that could one day be used to protect the Earth from a hazardous object.  More

 Editor: Andrea Gianopoulos   | 11 August 2022 |  NASA

  Analyzing data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse quite literally blew its top in 2019, losing a substantial part of its visible surface and producing a gigantic Surface Mass Ejection (SME).   More

Gurjeet Kahlon | 29 March 2023 | Royal Astronomical Society

 A team of astronomers have discovered one of the biggest black holes ever found, taking advantage of a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. The findings are published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. More

Nilima Marshall | 25 March 2023 | INDEPENDENT

Cancer cells will be heading to space as part of UK scientific experiments to understand more about an incurable childhood tumour. Researchers from The Institute of Cancer Research are sending samples of diffuse midline glioma to the International Space Station (ISS) to see how it spreads in microgravity. More

Space Telescope Science Institute | 23 March 2023 | SciTechDaily

  This illustration conceptualizes the swirling clouds identified by the James Webb Space Telescope in the atmosphere of exoplanet VHS 1256 b. The planet is about 40 light-years away and orbits two stars that are locked in their own tight rotation. More

Jeff Foust | 21 March 2023 | SPACENEWS

  A lunar lander developed by Japanese company ispace has entered orbit around the moon, setting up a lunar landing attempt by the end of April. Tokyo-based ispace said that its HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lander entered orbit at 9:24 p.m. More

Ritu Singh |16 March 2023 | NDTV

NASA on Wednesday unveiled the first prototype of a new spacesuit that astronauts will wear to explore the Moon under the Artemis III mission. Created by Axiom Space, the sleeker spacesuits will replace the white, puffy, and bulky moon suits previously worn by Neil Armstrong and his fellow Apollo astronauts. More

Nilima Marshall |10 March 2023 | INDEPENDENT

 Scientists are calling for a legally-binding treaty to protect the Earth’s orbit from the dangers posed by space debris.

An international team of experts said there are around 100 trillion pieces of old satellites circling the planet that are not being tracked. More

Ben Turner | 9 March 2023 | LIVESCIENCE

  Scientists using tiny optical tweezers have played the world's smallest game of catch — throwing and catching individual atoms using light. The feat, achieved with highly-focused laser beams that held atoms in place before launching them, is the first time that atoms have been thrown from one pair of optical tweezers to another.  More

 Jennifer Hahn | 6 March 2023 | dezeen

   Space agency NASA has started making use of artificial intelligence to develop its mission hardware, creating components that it says are significantly stronger than their human-designed counterparts while saving two-thirds of the weight. More

Mike Wall | 12 February 2023 | SPACE.com

For the second time in two months, a Russian spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) has sprung a leak.

Mission controllers in Moscow have noticed "a depressurization" in the robotic Progress 82 cargo craft, Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos announced on Saturday. More

Jonathan Amos| 23 March 2023 | BBC

 Terran-1 left its launch pad in Cape Canaveral in Florida and powered skyward for a few minutes before falling back to Earth.

Some 85% of the vehicle, which is 112ft (34m) tall, was produced using additive manufacturing techniques (3D printing). More

Science Desk | 31 March 2023 | The Indian EXPRESS

NASA has set up a new Moon to Mars Program Office at its headquarters in Washington to help prepare the agency’s human spaceflight missions to the Moon and beyond.  More

By: NASA- MARS Exploration program | 17 May 2022 | NASA

NASA’s InSight Mars lander is gradually losing power and is anticipated to end science operations later this summer. More

By: NASA- MARS Exploration program | 01 June 2022 | NASA

During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust activity ever witnessed by a mission sent to the Red Planet’s surface. More

By: NASA- MARS Exploration program | 22 June 2022 | NASA

 For the past year, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been traveling through a transition zone from a clay-rich region to one filled with a salty mineral called sulfate.  More

By: NASA- MARS Exploration program | 27 June 2022 | NASA

 Scientists using data from NASA’s Curiosity rover measured the total organic carbon – a key component in the molecules of life – in Martian rocks for the first time.  More

By: NASA- MARS Exploration program | 21 July 2022 | NASA

 NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT (8 a.m. PDT) on Wednesday, July 27, to discuss the architecture for its Mars Sample Return campaign.   More

Isro.gov.in | 10 August 2022 | ISRO

The  Another important milestone in the Gaganyaan project is completed, by successfully test-firing the Low Altitude Escape Motor (LEM) of Crew Escape System, from Sriharikota on August 10, 2022. More

 08 November 2022 | NDTV  

Skyroot Vikram S Launch: The maiden mission of Skyroot Aerospace, named 'Prarambh' (the beginning), will carry three customer payloads and is set for launch from Indian Space Research Organisation's launchpad at Sriharikota.More

By  Ashish Dangwal  | 13 August 2022 | The EurAsian Times 

France, India’s top strategic ally in Europe, has renounced plans to develop a device with Russia for the orbiter India intends to launch to Venus.   More

 By Press Trust of India  | 8 June 2022 | Gadgets 360 - An NDTV venture  

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Australian Space Agency (ASA) held a virtual meeting on Tuesday during which they reviewed space cooperation and discussed potential areas of working together.   More 

 FE Online  | 26 April 2022 | The Financial Express 

It is still yet to be seen if the ‘space bricks’ would hold up on the red planet as the soil is quite toxic and the atmosphere is mostly made up of carbon dioxide and is 100 times thinner than Earth’s. More 

By The Time of India  | 11 June 2022 | The Time of India

AHMEDABAD: Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) officials on Friday said that they have received a total of 67 proposals for collaboration so far. More

Surendra Singh | 01 June 2023 | THE TIMES OF INDIA

The much-awaited Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has landed in  Sriharikota and will soon be integrated with India's most powerful rocket, GSLV-MKIII or LVM-3, for the  country's third mission to the Moon in July. More

22 April 2023 | THE ECONOMIC TIMES

Ahead of the 2024 General Elections, the Indian space agency ISRO will launch the first uncrewed test rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) as a part of the Gaganyaan Mission - India's human space mission. More

 SANGEETHA KANDAVEL | 22 April 2023 | THE HINDU

 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch its first uncrewed test rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) as a part of the human space mission — Gaganyaan. “We are targetting to send the first uncrewed GSLV rocket in February 2024 as part of the Gaganyaan (India’s human space mission) mission. The human module will land in the sea,” ISRO Chairman S. Somanath said after the successful launch of PSLV-C55/TeLEOS-2. More

Amitabh Sinha  | 08 April 2023 | The Indian Express

 The government has given the final go-ahead to India’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, project, clearing the way for the construction of the country’s biggest scientific facility that will join the ongoing global project to probe the universe by detecting and studying gravitational waves.  More

26 March 2023 | SPACE.com

India's most powerful rocket launched the final 36 satellites for OneWeb's first-generation internet constellation on Saturday night . A Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3) rocket lifted off from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre Saturday at 11:30 p.m. EDT (0330 GMT and 9 a.m. India Standard Time on March 26), carrying 36 OneWeb broadband satellites toward low Earth orbit (LEO). More

 12 February 2023 | SPACE.com

After a string of delays, India's most ambitious mission is slowly finding its footing again. On Tuesday (Feb. 7), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India's national space agency, resumed a series of tests needed to perfect procedures and hardware for its Gaganyaan human spaceflight program. 

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 10 February 2023 | NDTV

 The SSLV-D2 soared into the skies at 9:18 am from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre and will attempt to put three satellites into a 450 km circular orbit during its 15 minute flight.

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 04 February 2023 | SPACENEWS 

In meetings this week in Washington, held with little public fanfare, the United States and India agreed to expanded cooperation in civil space and laid the groundwork for potential new efforts. More

By: COMPAC | The Decorative Surfaces 

  Living off-world has always been a fantasy, albeit one that could be closer than we imagined. But, would it be possible to design a house on Mars? And on the moon?  Some architects have no doubt when it comes to offering solutions. More

By: Pierre-Louis Soulié   | designwanted

  Towards the end of the ’50s, new technical perspectives combined with an interest in abstract futuristic shapes lead to what is known as Space Age design.

The US’ confidence in becoming a leader in space flights influenced a vast majority of designers and architects. More

By: Pierre-Louis Soulié   | designwanted

 When the United States set its sights on the moon in the 1950s and 60s, it was inevitable that space exploration would inspire an age of innovation in the world of design. From rocket-shaped vehicles to futuristic kitchenware, humanity’s fascination with the cosmos offered an infinite source from which to draw from.  More

By: Amanda Kooser  | CNET

  Good news, Earthlings. We have more to look forward to than just the drab landscape of the moon or the inhospitable surface of Mars when it comes to far-flung future human civilizations off this rock. We might one day be living la vida asteroid.   More

By: Ryan Brukardt  | McKinsey & Co

 Space is no longer the sole domain of governments and aerospace and defense companies. Businesses that pursue emerging opportunities now may gain a first-mover advantage.  More

By: Rachael Zisk | Payload

  Within a decade, a startup known for building cheap 3D-printed houses on Earth is hoping to bring the materials cost for building structures on the lunar surface down to zero. Austin-based ICON said this morning that it won a $57.2M Phase III SBIR award from NASA that will bring its 3D printing technology all the way to the Moon.  More

By:  The Mount Sinai Hospital | SciTechDaily

 A groundbreaking study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that astronauts are more likely to develop mutations, potentially connected to spaceflight, that raise astronaut’s lifelong risk of acquiring cancer and heart disease.  More

By: John Donovan | HowStuffWorks

If you're of the Elon Musk mindset and think that humans, to survive, will have to become a multiplanetary species, we're going to need a place to live and work. Out there. In space. On other planets. More