...regulating chemicals produced or imported in the EU. Part of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) solar array returned from low Earth orbit by astronauts after the HST’s first service mission, showing the atomic oxygen protection silicone coating to have...
...with the transportation of several tens of tonnes of cargo between the Earth and the Moon. At such masses, the use of chemical ... of a 600kW mission transferring a 27-tonne cargo payload from low Earth orbit (LEO) to the Moon, the use of HTS could ...
...NASA's next generation spacecraft, will take astronauts Beyond Low-Earth Orbit (BLEO) and into deep space. Orion can carry...the craft from extreme temperatures experienced on reentry into Earth's atmosphere. During Orion's Exploration Flight Test (EFT...
... million euros ($266 million), which includes construction and launch of the satellite, three years operations in low Earth orbit, and the ground infrastructure. The launch is expected to happen in 2020 on either a Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket...
...’s Orion crew exploration vehicle – whose mission is not centered on the international space station but destinations beyond low Earth orbit. ESA has already reduced its ISS operating costs – not including the common operating charges – by more...
... Exploration Agency (JAXA) and is due to be launched from the Tanegashima Space Center, aboard an H-IIA rocket into low Earth orbit in a few days time. The purpose of ASTRO-H is to explore the structure and evolution of the high energy Universe...