..., Johannes Kepler suggested “sailing on the winds of space” and he had it right. Sunlight-propelled light sails were demonstrated by the Planetary Society in 2015 with the Lightsail-1 spacecraft and by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) with...
... philosophy of Open Source Space. Teams with diverse areas of expertise are continuing the academic tradition of experimenting, demonstrating and learning quickly, and then sharing their knowledge and experience to create better systems in the future...
...in December 2019 aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket. OSCAR attained around three minutes of microgravity to demonstrate its features. About the author Annie Meier is chief of the Exploration Systems & Development Office which includes...
..., even though it takes longer to reach the desired orbit and enter service. Alphasat also hosts Technology Demonstration Payloads addressing various market and R&D requirements. These include a Laser Communications Terminal for high data-rate...
... and public interest in recent years. Often referred to as 3D printing, a slew of disruptive commercial applications have already been demonstrated and many more foreseen. Now, teams around the world have been inspired to design a 3D-printed Mars...
...square metre solar sail in deep space that successfully demonstrated deep space propulsion and navigation as it flew in...group, The Planetary Society, flew in Earth orbit their own demonstrator, LightSail-A. This was a 3U CubeSat mission that deployed ...