June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
... billion times less than for near- Earth missions and so the spacecraft is equipped with a state-of-theart deep space transponder. The spacecraft is travelling so close to the S un that the solar flux it will experience is 12 times higher than...
02 December 2014
Orion service module contract for Airbus
...contract worth $490 million on 18 November 2014 for Airbus Defence and Space to manufacture the service modules for NASA’s four crew Orion MPCV deep-space capsule. The module is to be constructed at an Airbus facility in Bremen, Germany. Based on the...
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
... spacecraft ever to orbit a resident of the asteroid belt. It is also the only ship ever targeted to orbit two deep-space destinations. This unique mission would be quite impossible without its advanced ion propulsion system, giving it capabilities...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... and demonstrating capabilities that are independent of Earth. Returning to the Moon will, therefore, be a cornerstone of future deep-space human exploration. This low-angle self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the ...
28 November 2015
NASA Set to Improve Orion's Heat Shield
...extreme temperatures when Orion goes on its second journey into deep space. Orion's next mission will take the craft around the ...will take astronauts Beyond Low-Earth Orbit (BLEO) and into deep space. Orion can carry and sustain a crew of four for ...
28 February 2017
The future is here: Elon Musk announces commercial flights to the Moon
...of the moon, go quite a bit farther out into deep space, and then loop back to Earth. I’m guessing probably ... to ten times. Musk had also mentioned installing a “deep space communications system”, necessary for longer trips, that still has to be...
