26 June 2019
LightSail 2 gets ready to make its debut in space
Yesterday, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket successfully launched NASA’s STP-2 mission from...2005, the Cosmos-1 project, unfortunately never reached space as the Volna rocket it was launched on failed shortly after liftoff and the payload was subsequently...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... also be busy launching Psyche in 2022, a mission to study a metallic asteroid of the same name. Flying on top of a Falcon Heavy rocket in July, Psyche will fly 450 million kilometres to give scientists a glimpse of our deep past by taking a close...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... near 1g at rotation rates of 1-2 Revolutions Per Minute (RPM). Such a structure could be launched inside a single Falcon Heavy rocket fairing and then be deployed autonomously to a final size of a kilometer or more on orbit without requiring complex...
