03 January 2020
China tests mini solar sail in space
... has successfully completed its objectives so far, which included tests on the micro-satellite deployment system, and flexible sail...erecting its masts and gradually spreading the sail. More tests to verify the de-orbiting capability of the solar sail ...
15 May 2017
Electron rocket gets ready for first flight test
...the company value is now in excess of $1 billion (USD). Speaking about the intended launch, which is imaginatively entitled `It’s a Test,’ Peter Beck said in a statement; “this is a significant milestone for Rocket Lab and the space industry globally...
24 May 2017
Tests done on game changing nanotube material for thruster parts
... not trying to be cliché, but that is a game changer!” The tensile properties of the COPV has already been tested as it hitched a ride on a sounding rocket that recently launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. “We’re going to use...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
...of space around it, astronomers have made the most precise test yet of Einstein’s general theory of relativity outside the Milky...works on a Universal scale and it has withstood vigorous testing from objects within the Solar System. It is being further...
09 January 2019
New self-driving rovers being tested for Mars
... their slower human-reliant cousins as scientists have successfully tested a suite of software systems on a would-be martian...kilometres without human interaction. Roaming around the Ibn Battuta test centre in Morocco is Sherpa; a four-wheeled rover...
28 August 2019
SpaceX's Skyhopper impresses with its highest test flight
... three engines each and more robust landing gear, capable of test flights up to 20 kilometres high. Starhopper is the first ...the prototype’s single one. If everything goes well with the test campaign, Starship and Super Heavy could be ready to fly...
