November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... image showing the waters of the Bahamas as well as Cuba, Florida, and the US eastern seaboard was captured by LightSail 2 on 16 August 2020. The 32 m2 solar sail spacecraft used sunlight alone to change its orbit around Earth. The...
11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
... 2016, aims to demonstrate proof of concept for an ultra-fast light-driven “nanocraft” – miniature space probes attached to lightsails – that could reach speeds up to 100 million miles an hour, thus allowing a flyby mission to reach Alpha Centauri...
01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
... will be on hand to help explore our Solar System, such as drones, lasers, wafercrafts, Marscopters, steam-powered hoppers, lightsails, underwater robots, and a spiderbot! 2019 also marked the 50th anniversary of the first humans to step onto...
