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SpaceX prototype SN5 will undergo static fires. IF everything goes right, then there are launch windows for SpaceX test flight launch of SN5 to 150 meters. SOURCES- What About It?, Engineering Today Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com (Brian owns shares …
Team members of the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument on NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft found new evidence that the Moons subsurface might be richer in metals, like iron and titanium, than researchers thought. Using Mini-RF, the researchers sought …
NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) Program is concluding its structural qualification test series with one upcoming final test that will push it to failure. Late in 2019, engineers at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama tested NASA’s Space …
Extreme metamaterial ceramic solar sails survive a close pass of our sun to reach speeds of 60-70AU per year which is over 0.1% of light speed. Theis propel low mass spacecraft using a dive to extreme proximity to the sun …
A meter-class telescope with a coronagraph to block solar light, placed in the strong interference region of the solar gravitational lens (SGL), is capable of imaging an exoplanet at a distance of up to 30 parsecs with a few 10 …
If we send telescopes out to 4 light days we can use the gravity of the sun to amplify the power of telescopes by 100 billion times. Although we can build larger telescopes with higher resolution than exists today near …
People know that computers became a multi-trillion dollar industry because it rode the exponential growth in power of Moore’s Law. Aviation also experienced decades of exponential growth and Space has had ten years of exponential growth and is looking at …
Dr. Steven Howe identified an antimatter niche for the acceleration of small unmanned interstellar probes. Small amounts of antimatter can be used to initiate fission events whose daughters provided thrust. * use a dedicated customer $670 million accelerator to produce …
Extreme metamaterial solar sails as proposed here have the potential to shift the paradigm of space exploration enabling numerous low cost and high-speed missions to be launched anytime and anywhere. Such sails could gain accelerations over 60AU/yr when coupled to …
A new six-junction solar cell, developed by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), converts 47.1% of incident light into electricity when combined with optical concentration. Indications thus far suggest solar cells of this type can reach an efficiency rate of 50%. …