August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... when the photon is either reflected or absorbed it can propel an object. The idea of using enormous lasers to propel a spacecraft attached to a huge ‘light sail’ (a thin, highly-reflective material such as Mylar) to sub-light speed was first...
05 July 2016
Success for JUNO!
... phase would begin in October, as Juno’s mission and science teams have a few months in which to test the spacecraft’s subsystems and to perform final calibration of science instruments. However scientists working on the mission let slip that...
12 March 2018
Satellite-servicing space drones set for launch in 2020
... asteroid-mining, deep space exploration and space manufacturing logistics. “Launching our first two SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft into a geostationary orbit is part of our strong commitment to our first customer, meeting mission timeline and ensuring...
24 July 2019
LightSail 2 unfurls its sails and soars through space
... the day, completed around 3.30 p.m PDT (22.30 GMT) the spacecraft had finished one orbit in solar sailing mode, and all of... of its expected orientation—a promising early sign the spacecraft is tracking the Sun properly,” The Planetary Society shared...
17 September 2018
IAI and Effective Space in technological and financial cooperation
... Effective Space is pioneering a new era in last-mile logistics in space that will see its SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft fleet deployed to provide auxiliary services to space assets. Initial services to be provided by Effective Space will be life-extension...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
...programme was secretly terminated. The Soviet lunar lander spacecraft was never fully tested in action. Prototype versions,...the cosmonaut had to spacewalk between LK3 and the Soyuz-type spacecraft in lunar orbit). Baikonur, September 1968 - US Gambit ...
