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A new nuclear spacecraft technology to explore the Solar System 🚀
A British start-up has unveiled an ambitious project that could transform space exploration. Their idea? Using nuclear fusion ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
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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 ...
NASA puts biggest rocket pieces together for Artemis II moon mission
The slow race of getting NASA's Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year's Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...
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This Futuristic Fusion Rocket Could Slash Interplanetary Travel Time—And It’s Almost Ready
A secretive UK-based startup has just pulled back the curtain on a futuristic space propulsion project that sounds like ...
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China plans world's first electromagnetic rocket launch pad to rival SpaceX
Private space company Galactic Energy could debut the world's first electromagnetic rocket launch pad by 2028.
Firm wins Space Force funding to provide an “aircraft carrier” in orbit
The US Space Force first demonstrated this tactically responsive capability with a launch on Firefly's Alpha rocket in 2023. As part of this "Victus Nox" test flight, a satellite was encapsulated into ...
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NASA completes SLS core stage stacking for Artemis 2 moon mission (photos)
The core stage of NASA's next Space Launch System (SLS) rocket recently completed integration with the vehicle's side ...
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Lightsails That Can Travel 20% of The Speed of Light Move Closer to Reality
A new method for manufacturing lightsails that can reach up 20% of the speed of light is making the technology look more ...
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 ...