28 April 2016
Rocket Launch from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome Successful
.... The prime payload is the Avrora imager which has a ground resolution of 1.48 meter in panchromatic mode and a 4.5 meter resolution in multispectral mode. Also on board is the BiRLK Bistatic P-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) capable of observing...
13 April 2018
Air breathing rocket gets significant funding boost
...rocket. These scalable engines are capable of Mach 5.4 in air-breathing mode, compared with a jet engine that can only reach Mach 3 –... three times the speed of sound. However in rocket mode for space flight, SABRE can achieve Mach 25. BAE Systems, ...
13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
...Life Extension” and “ High Efficiency 6kW Dual Mode Electric Propulsion Engine for Broad Mission” The ... expand SSL’s electric propulsion capabilities by developing a selectable “dual mode” power processing unit (PPU) capable of providing 300 or 600...
24 July 2019
LightSail 2 unfurls its sails and soars through space
...flight controllers successfully commanded the spacecraft into solar sailing mode. "We're very excited to be past this huge ...GMT) the spacecraft had finished one orbit in solar sailing mode, and all of its major systems were reporting nominally....
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... York Times, described the Mars mission as “a triumph of low-cost engineering”. Future collaboration Significantly, ISRO was in ‘go’ mode for this mission, even prior to the government giving the green light, which explains why it was...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... with 100-metre-wide or larger objects happen about once every 100,000 years. The main mode of inflicting damage for these smaller objects is large tsunamis. Very small asteroids with sizes of a few metres...
