MARS2013 Science Bulletin Issue 02, 22Feb2013
MARS2013 Science Bulletin issue 02 Testing the complexity of working in a spacesuit. Exploring Martian cliffs with rovers. Mapping data from a Mars mission.
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MARS2013 News, February 21st
This is the Mission Support Center in Innsbruck, here with the daily news update, bringing you the news about yesterday’s MARS2013 events. After a very stormy night that left the team at Camp Weyprecht sleepless on Mars, yesterday was dedicated […]
MARS2013 News, February 20th
This is the Mission Support Center in Innsbruck with the daily update, bringing you the news about yesterday’s MARS2013 events. The MARS2013 teams and experiments continue to deliver great scientific results. The expeditionary team at Station Payer continued to be […]
MARS2013 News, February 18th
The second week of the MARS2013 mission has gotten off to a strong start. Over the weekend, four members of the field team transferred their operations to a temporary second “landing site”, which is some 50 km south of Camp […]
Space medicine: Inhale, Rusty!
NASA designs nasal spray for motion sickness Catching a cold in the frostiness of space is obvious. So why bother? Well, medical research in aerospace can also have essential impact on our lives here on earth. Surprisingly in the […]
Dachstein Mars Simulation 2012 Mission Report
he Austrian Space Forum performed a Mars Analogue-Field-test between the 27th of April and the 1st of May, together with international partners. The test took place in the Mammoth and Giant ice caves in the Dachstein Area in Austria. Aside […]
Austrian Space Forum and Techcos are playing it safe
In December 2011, the German counselling firm Techcos (specialised for security analysis) and the Austrian Space Forum have started an unusual project: within the framework of the research project PolAres, the spacesuit Aouda.X gets tested and analysed for risk and […]
“Oscar Echo Zulu Charlie Charlie you are cleared to climb to 12000 feet”
The voice in the aviation radio belonged to the air traffic controller on the control tower of the airport in Graz. OE-ZCC was the registration of our hot air balloon, 12,000 feet was the altitude we wanted to reach. At […]
Passepartout – Past, Present and Future (Part 6)
It is July 1955, and the US have announced that they will build a satellite and send it into space during the Year of Geophysics in 1957/58. Only four days later, the Soviets announce the same plan – and no […]
8. PolAres Suit Workshop (24.-26. July 2011)
From the 24th to the 26th of June Space Air could be smelled in the centre of the Salzkammergut, or more precisely in the empirial Spa of Bad Ischl. 14 members of the space forum have choosen this place (which […]