24 May 2017
Tests done on game changing nanotube material for thruster parts
... system,” said Meador. “We are one experiment in that payload, but it’s a pioneering flight. This is first time that carbon nanotube-based composites have been flight-tested in a structural component. The COPV flight test will go a long way...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... of magnitude in tensile strength to achieve minimal SE-grade. Graphene, a chicken-wire molecule of hexagonally connected carbon, or carbon nanotubes (CNTs, tubes of rolled up graphene) are postulated to have the required specific strength [12], but...
26 September 2018
A mini space elevator is being tested near the ISS
... radiation of space and the rigours of the journey is one such problem. More recently, the idea of using carbon nano-tubes, which have a tensile strength approximately 100 times greater than that of steel of the same...
25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
... Wang said. In another a bid to reduce the scale of martian transport missions, a "Sky Ladder”, delivery system made of carbon nanotubes, is also under study according to Wang. Although the head of the country's top rocket manufacturing company did...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
...famous space elevator, a tether anchored to Earth at the equator with a counterweight beyond geosynchronous orbit. New carbon nanotubes may make space elevators a reality. Let’s combine these concepts and imagine a space elevator that is electrically...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... research on stealth satellites with low radar and optical signatures. NASA, for example, has recently invented a carbon-nanotube-based optical absorber that renders a satellite near pitch-black to optical space sensors. In fact, simply making...
