This post is by Susan Fairchild, chief knowledge officer at New Visions for Public Schools. Every year or so The Global Trajectory Optimization competition takes place--challenging some of the best ...

A small group of engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have launched a new web-based tool for scientists and engineers to use when designing spacecraft trajectories to ...

NASA engineers have launched a new website tool that calculates the requirements for robotic and manned missions to asteroids, comets, planets and other destinations ...

This thesis presents fundamental work that explains two mysteries concerning the trajectory of interplanetary spacecraft. For the first problem, the so-called Pioneer anomaly, a wholly new and ...

Scientists at NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have determined that a small object that safely passed Earth on May 21 is more than ...

Icarus Interstellar’s latest research project is Project Voyager. Voyager will be led by Project Leader Zach Fejes ([email protected]), who has built a team of Engineers, Physicists and coders, with ...

The first CubeSats launched in 2003, and in less than a decade, more than 100 had reached orbit around Earth. The aerospace industry has debated whether the 2kg to 15kg microsatellites are a fad, a ...

The QinetiQ-engineered Solar Electric Propulsion System (SEPS) on board BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA spacecraft on a mission to Mercury, has now begun propelling the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) ...

A roadmap for colonising the galaxy is brought to life in a mesmerising animation that plots paths for future humanity's ships as they take settlers out among the stars. The model shows all the ...

In October 2009 a small group of robotic space exploration geeks decided to venture out of our comfort zone and began brainstorming different approaches to flying people into space. We were spurred ...

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