... lead by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) where the solar sail is being developed. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is building the spacecraft. The sail team is now building the flight sail and...
... panels placed at a node at the centre of mass, the entire facility would spin up using reaction control system jets attached to the service module and the habitat spacecraft. The rotation would induce a Mars-like partial...
... access to space for all. Dream Chaser Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser is about the size of a regional jet and is expcetd to accommodate about 20 to 25 laboratory stations. It is the only reusable, lifting-body, multi-mission spacecraft...
... of the Solar and Planetary Missions Division, as such also taking up the Rosetta Flight Director role. Perihelion jet. It was hard for me to leave the active operations role on my beloved mission but I knew I left it in good hands...
... due to mechanical wearing (e.g. Sun-tracking solar panel bearings, momentum wheels, etc.), limited propulsion resources (gas jets or similar), and carefully engineered thermal surfaces which can be subject to degradation due to space ‘weathering...
... having passed by Venus. However, an Italian scientist named Giuseppe Colombo, who at the time was visiting NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), had noticed that the period of the spacecraft’s orbit around the Sun, after...