February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
... afterglow. Nuclear explosives have been considered for space propulsion of large objects. Spacecraft designs envision pitching nuclear ... of a nearby comet or asteroid and generate propulsive force. Plans to deflect comets and asteroids assume...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
...instance, the new Ikar stage was developed based on the propulsion system of the observation satellite Komet and was first used ...already planned by the Russian space agency based on the propulsion system of the space probes Phobos and Mars 96. However...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... transport way-station for transitioning from chemically fuelled rocket launchers to much more efficient electric ion propulsion systems that could fly on to the Moon and Mars? Conceptual study of magnetic structure in space to create a safe...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... up in the atmosphere, undock from that descending debris and then travel, using its highly efficient electric propulsion engine, to another spacecraft or debris object and deorbit that too; and so forth, to allow an economic commercial system...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... undergoes a deorbiting manoeuvre. Space-based laser This is another contactless technique, based on the principle of ablative laser propulsion, which relies on using a high-power laser to ablate the debris surface. As the vapour is ejected from the...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
...(Size, Weight and Power) and most capable electric propulsion for spacecraft autonomy, collision avoidance and deorbiting once ...validate the company’s proprietary clean and water-based propulsion technologies. Stay tuned. About the author Josephine ...
