Mars exploration is heating up. NASA eyes sample returns and crewed landings by the 2030s, but its current relay satellites -- some decades past design life -- struggle with data traffic from rovers, ...
What is not controversial is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. NASA’s ...
Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the lofty goal of ferrying humans to Mars and setting up colonies on the neighboring ...
NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, perhaps as soon as late 2028, on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. So ...
Elon Musk’s space empire is going public in the biggest share offering of all time. A company valuation of $1.75tn (£1.3tn) ...
In 2028, if all goes well, NASA plans to test a new technology that could reduce trip times to the Red Planet.
The 20th century began with the exploration of the last unknown continent on Earth - Antarctica. So it's somewhat appropriate that as the century closes, another great act of polar exploration is ...
NASA's LOXSAT mission tests orbital refueling. See how space gas stations could make long-haul missions to the Moon and Mars possible.
Free-return trajectory – a path that loops around the Moon and returns to Earth without propulsion Permanently shadowed regions – areas near the lunar poles that never receive sunlight and may contain ...
Reusable rockets have reshaped the economics of spaceflight by dramatically reducing the cost of launching payloads into orbit. Traditional rockets were single-use vehicles that burned up or crashed ...
According to the US Department of Energy, nuclear thermal propulsion can reduce travel times to Mars by up to 25% and, more importantly, limit a crew’s exposure to cosmic radiation. It would also ...
Rocket Lab (RKLB) won a $390,936 NASA study contract for Mars telecommunications architecture and is competing to build a $700 million dedicated communications network supporting sample returns and ...
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