Spacecraft could be fuelled by space junk collected in orbit
With an estimated 10,000 tonnes of debris floating in space, the company believes that the innovation could help clean up ...
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SpaceX rocket snaps amazing views of Earth during Hera asteroid probe launch (photos)
shows a gorgeous blue Earth hanging in space beside the nozzle of the Falcon 9's upper-stage Merlin engine. Earth looks ...
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Europe's Hera asteroid probe heads for Mars after engine burn
The Hera mission is headed for the Didymos binary asteroid system. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART) smashed ...
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New engine tech that could get us to Mars faster
Because of the orbital paths Mars and Earth take around the Sun ... has a study contract with Nasa to design a space rocket featuring a nuclear thermal engine. He thinks nuclear thermal electric ...
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Reaction Engines goes into bankruptcy, taking the hypersonic SABRE engine with it
A typical launch into low Earth orbit for example can cost anything from ... In particular to address access issues to space ...
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Rocket Lab wins $8 million U.S. Air Force contract for engine development
The contract is to advance digital engineering processes for the company’s next-generation Archimedes rocket engine ...
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Nasa's new rocket engine could shorten the journey time to Mars and Moon: A game-changer for deep space exploration
Nasa has developed and tested a new propulsion system designed for deep space missions. RDRE system has the potential to power both human landers and interplanetary vehicles going to deep space ...