13 December 2019
NASA selects Nightingale site for asteroid sample collection
...poses challenges for sample collection. The original mission plan envisioned a sample site with a diameter of 164 feet ...is only about one-tenth the size of what was originally envisioned. This means the spacecraft has to very accurately target Bennu’s...
June 2015
The Aeromobil 3.0 flying car spreads its wings
... Civil Aviation Authority of the Slovak Republic. It incorporated most of the key technical features that have been envisioned for the final commercial product and was mostly used for testing and optimisation of the functionality...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... its first facility and work is underway to complete the design and planning of the first phase of the envisioned cluster, which is expected to be complete by December 2015. These plans will be shared during the SpaceCom conference in November...
March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
Buried underneath the allegorical plot-lines of all those Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica episodes is a very simple and uncomfortable fact that humanity as a whole does not often like to acknowledge: a single-planet species is ultimately doomed ...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... its privileged relationship with space-pioneer Russia, the idea to develop together an ad hoc space vehicle was envisioned. However, the cost-effective and reliable Russian medium-lift launcher Soyuz, mostly used for injection...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... space travel include Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, who is developing a spacecraft that flies like those envisioned in early science fiction novels. Robert Bigelow, founder of the Budget Suites hotel chain, is test-flying inflatable...
