Engineers are exploring propulsion methods that could enable longer-distance travel ...
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NASA's Building A Solar Sail To Propel Space ExplorationNASA's futuristic solar sail technology prototype is getting ready to launch to space this year. Like a sail on the ocean propels a boat with the wind, this space sail is meant to propel payloads ...
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Rocket Lab launches 8 wildfire-hunting satellites into orbit from New Zealand (video)Rocket Lab has launched its workhorse Electron rocket for the third time in two weeks. The New Zealand-based company ...
Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support ...
Katy Perry in space, the newest lunar missions, the X-37B "secret shuttle," Apollo-era flight director Gene Kranz and ...
How can lightsail technology advance to help humanity travel to other star systems? This is what a recent study published in ...
Another IVO quantum inertia drive is in orbit now and will be turned on within a few to ten weeks and then operated for many ...
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Ultra-thin lightsails with billions of tiny holes to enable high-speed space travelResearchers have developed scalable lightsails, ultra-thin, reflective structures that use laser-driven radiation pressure to ...
Newer emphasis areas of sustainability and minimization of space debris have also made much faster the development of alternative propulsion means, such as solar sails, which use the pressure of ...
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