January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... System (SLS) during a cis-lunar multiple week exploratory mission, certifying the system for human deep space exploration and demonstrating autonomous operations and on-board automation balanced with the ground mission operations. An ascent abort...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... but if we’ve been a few times already we need more capable sensors. Not all the instruments we need for deep space exploration can be miniaturised to fit within the constraints of a cubesat or nanosat volume, but the list of those we can accommodate...
17 July 2018
Harris Corporation to provide audio system for first human deep-space mission
... Harris Corporation has announced it will provide the crucial audio communication system for NASA’s first human deep-space exploration mission, scheduled to launch in 2022 onboard the Orion spacecraft. Orion is NASA’s first spacecraft designed for...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
... dates back to the 1940s, and has recently been involved in a variety of interesting projects. One of those is deep space exploration. In December 2014, building on the experience gained from Hayabusa, another asteroid probe was launched from the...
July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
... drawing board to find a better way, a more sustainable, more affordable way, to do deep space exploration. We also decided that, if we were going to be explorers - which is what I believe humanity is destined to be - we could no longer be the owners...
28 July 2021
Japan successfully tests rocket engine propelled by shock waves
... waves produced by burning a mixture of methane and oxygen gases, the country’s space agency said Tuesday. Known officially as a pulse detonation engine (PDE), it was... operate for extended periods of time for use on deep-space exploration missions.
