04 September 2020
Rocket Lab secretly launches its first own designed and built satellite
... provider of high-quality, flight-proven satellite hardware, to strengthen the Rocket Lab Space Systems division. Sinclair Interplanetary products have become key features of the Photon satellite platforms, and Rocket Lab is also dedicating resources...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
...effort. Daedalus, a 1973-1978 project of the British Interplanetary Society, spurred considerable advances in the field of interstellar... research projects such as Icarus (via the British Interplanetary Society and the Tau Zero Foundation) and the ...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... At the same time, AIM is a distinct type of interplanetary mission: innovative, low cost and notably faster. In the ... and rendezvous operations between separate spacecraft in interplanetary space will be essential for planned sample-return...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... navigation as it flew in the inner solar system near Venus (Figure 1). The Japanese mission was called IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun). In 2015, the private space advocacy group, The Planetary Society...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... a reduction to US$1,700/kg with its partly reusable Falcon Heavy rocket. Of course, the costs of onward flight across interplanetary space will be much higher. Artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Mars 2020 rover exploring Mars. Testing techniques...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
...-red spectrum. Such spacecraft could operate in Earth orbit, interplanetary orbit or, in time, be based on the Moon. ...reaction phase will be similar to the way in which interplanetary expeditions have already been carried out on many occasions to ...
