07 June 2015
A quick(er) jaunt to Mars?
... Administrator Charlie Bolden during a news conference on potential new options for Mars travel, has been working on solar-electric propulsion systems, for example. In spite of this potentially welcome news, it still helps to remember that even with...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... robust U.S. commercial space market, including continued development of advanced space technology for life support and solar electric propulsion, collaboration with industry to develop deep space habitats, and initiating efforts to allow the private...
21 March 2018
NASA aims for the Moon with commercial help
... lunar orbits over its lifetime to maximise science and exploration operations using advanced high-power solar electric propulsion. Preliminary studies into the element have already begun by five U.S companies such as Boeing of Pasadena, Lockheed...
27 June 2017
New Roll-Out Solar Array tested at the ISS
...a potential ‘standard’ in future satellites that make use of solar arrays, NASA has also been eyeing up the technology for ... vehicle ready for its return to Earth. The solar electric propulsion technology that is scalable, can also be configured and...
18 March 2019
A habitat prototype for NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway
...Jim Bridenstine described March 11 as a Moon-orbiting staging area for lunar landers and occasionally astronauts, with solar-electric propulsion moving the entire Gateway around from one orbit to another. Posting with the hashtag #AskAwayGateway, the...
11 February 2016
$19 Billion NASA Budget Proposed by White House
... from 2016. These funds would be used for a number of programs, including satellite servicing and development of solar electric propulsion. The aeronautics division funding has also increased, by $150 million from 2016 – amounting to $790 million...
