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Researchers develop new design and fabrication method to make lightsails for interstellar travel
In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective ...
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'It’s still surreal': NASA engineer explains what it's like to help put spacecraft into orbit
Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...
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MiG-105 Spiral: The Little-Known Soviet Starfighter
The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...
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Ultra-thin lightsails with billions of tiny holes to enable high-speed space travel
Researchers have developed scalable lightsails, ultra-thin, reflective structures that use laser-driven radiation pressure to ...
A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years
Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...