01 April 2015
Media Spun Up on NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology
... flying a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii.../ldsd/ The LDSD mission is part of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, which is innovating, developing, testing...
17 December 2021
First commercial lunar distance communications network validated in space
... of Control Centers for IM. “This sends a powerful message that GES and IM together will be a major provider of near space network communications.” About Intuitive Machines Intuitive Machines' complete Lunar Payload Delivery Services (LPDS) program...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
...reusable geo-cosmic transportation system for non-rocket exploration of near space comprised of two orbital rings, one a ‘string ...exclusively on electric energy, will allow the industrialisation of near space to be carried out in reality. After that, ...
January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
... us to a better way of life on Earth - and I believe will lead us to a better, more sustainable path in space. Protecting the near-space environment is in everyone’s interests - so let’s go! Max Alexander Eighty percent of objects in orbit now belong...
June 2015
Re-usable rockets: a new breakthrough for suborbital research
... vehicles in our Tycho line that are already carrying REM payloads into service now. World View’s near-space access distinction is that our vehicles do not require rocket propulsion to reach high altitude. Instead, they use...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... ahead Today, neither constellation operators nor governments are ready to pay for a deorbit campaign to clear Earth’s near space of dangerous objects But why deorbit a spacecraft at all if you can maintain its station keeping and manoeuvring...
