11 February 2016
$19 Billion NASA Budget Proposed by White House
... from 2016. These funds would be used for a number of programs, including satellite servicing and development of solar electric propulsion. The aeronautics division funding has also increased, by $150 million from 2016 – amounting to $790 million...
07 June 2016
A green light for the LISA Pathfinder mission
... continued McNamara. The process of detecting extremely small movements using sophisticated technologies in gravitational sensors, electric propulsion, and laser ranging is known as ‘precision metrology’ and is crucial for advancing projects of this...
04 November 2016
China launches new heavy-lift rocket
... vague, but supposedly the rocket carried an experimental Shijian-17 satellite, which will be used for testing electric-propulsion technology. The Long March 5 is made up of two stages and is 57 meters tall. It is capable of lofting 25 metric tons...
27 June 2017
New Roll-Out Solar Array tested at the ISS
... back inside the trunk of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo vehicle ready for its return to Earth. The solar electric propulsion technology that is scalable, can also be configured and combined with other ROSAs for very high power...
12 March 2018
Satellite-servicing space drones set for launch in 2020
..., non-intrusive docking system. Once attached as an external ‘jetpack’, the life-preserving spacecraft uses electric propulsion to perform specific duties such as station-keeping, relocation, orbit correction, inclination correction and deorbiting...
17 December 2018
Innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats
... pass Jupiter, the sails will be jettisoned and the small sats will continue on their epic journey by electric propulsion. Despite this innovative solution, it will still take 30 years for the small sets to get to the right...
