Shell, primarily known as a global energy company, plays a role in the space industry through its Shell Aviation division. Shell Aviation supplies aviation fuel, including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and lubricants to airlines and other aviation customers. They partner with companies like Air Europa and Rolls-Royce to promote SAF use and decarbonization efforts within the aviation sector. Shell also utilizes satellite imagery for geological and environmental mapping to support its exploration and production activities.
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Axiom Space and Prada unveiled the AxEMU’s outer shell in 2024.
The AxEMU’s outer shell is built to survive the thermal extremes and micrometeoroid environment of the lunar South Pole.
SES is expected to contribute approximately €1.8 billion to the MEO shell for IRIS².
A team led by Western University imaged a shell of buckyball carbon molecules in the Tc 1 nebula using the James Webb Space Telescope.
Reflective thermal tape remained in many areas of Orion’s crew module aft shell after reentry.
The ceramic tiles on the conical upper portion of Orion’s crew module aft shell performed as expected.
SpaceX plans to lower approximately 4,400 satellites from Starlink’s 550-kilometer shell to a new operational altitude of 480 kilometers during 2026.
At the end of 2024, Dutch courts rejected on appeal a case brought by climate advocacy groups against Shell, overturning a landmark ruling handed down three years earlier.
A satellite operating in a proposed 2,000 km shell could accumulate 10–15 krad of total ionizing dose in less than a year, degrading dense memory stacks rapidly.
A collision cascade (Kessler Syndrome) in a high-density shell at 2,000 km could permanently close off large portions of low Earth orbit for future use.
SpaceX’s proposed satellites would be spaced roughly 50 kilometers apart from their nearest neighbor within each orbital shell.
Deep Blue and Interstellor are shell companies tied to Jiutian Weixing and led by a television presenter.
Petroleum Development Oman, in which Shell holds a 34 percent stake, is using satellite monitoring to help find oil reserves undetected by conventional methods.
Europa Clipper and JUICE will examine the interiors, surfaces, and space environments of Jupiter's large moons and probe plume activity and isotopic fingerprints of water in material erupting from Europa's icy shell.
Catherine Cooper and Austin Green proposed that bands or patches of salt-rich surface ice on Europa can detach from the surrounding shell once they are sufficiently weakened.
The findings align with the objectives of NASA's Europa Clipper mission, which was launched in 2024 to perform multiple close flybys of Europa to investigate its ice shell, subsurface ocean, and potential to support life.
Europa holds more liquid water beneath its frozen shell than all of Earth's oceans combined.
If salt-driven delamination operates across many regions of Europa's shell, it would represent an efficient, continuous pathway to recycle surface material into the subsurface ocean.
Washington State University researchers Catherine Cooper and Austin Green adapted the Earth process of crustal delamination to explain material transport in Europa's ice shell.
Green and Cooper used computer models to test whether salty, nutrient-bearing ice could descend through Europa's ice shell and how far it could travel.