May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
... advantage of near real-time communication with Earth - are useful in preparing the space community for long-term, deep space missions, but they require a self-sustained living space for humans and cost-effective launch vehicles. Thus, making...
01 April 2020
Biohybrid can turn CO2 into new products for use on Mars or Earth
... products themselves, such as fuel and drugs, which would otherwise be too expensive to ship from Earth. "For a deep space mission, you care about the payload weight, and biological systems have the advantage that they self...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... the commercial sector beyond Earth orbit with affordable deep space missions. We are at the very beginning of commercial...stakeholders, and a successful lunar economy will lead to further deep space exploration. The time when we land the first person ...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
...) and 25.5-27.0 GHz (K-band) frequency bands for downlink, which are different from the frequencies used for deep space missions to avoid interference. The spacecraft is autonomous for 72 hours of nominal operations and has very stringent pointing...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... spacecraft will be fitted with a green-monopropellant propulsion system, which is emerging as a replacement for hydrazine for use on deep space missions thanks to its low-toxicity and lower integration costs. NEAScout, led by NASA Marshall and JPL...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...cubesat kitchen cabinet’ has helped to conceive some new, exciting science missions using deep space cubesats and nanosats It is common enough for deep space missions to use a gravity assist manoeuvre at Venus to provide a boost in velocity to propel...
