By Christian Davenport, Published by The Washington Post, 27 July 2023 If successful, the technology could dramatically cut the travel time to Mars Lockheed Martin on Wednesday won a contract to build a nuclear thermal rocket engine, a key technology long coveted by both NASA and the Pentagon that could
Starship SN15 takes off on May 5, 2021. (Credit: SpaceX webcast) By Peter Howson, Published by Context, 25 May 2023 Like the colonial conquests of the past, in today’s space race, indigenous people are losing their land and identities Colonialism has always involved boldly going to pinch other people’s stuff.
By Josie Ensor, Published by The Telegraph, 9 April 2023 Rocket designed to take man to the Red Planet is ready for test launch in days, says billionaire's firm SpaceX is on the cusp of sending its Starship - the most powerful rocket ever built - into orbit, in the
By Christian Davenport, Published by The Washington Post, 3 February 2023 When NASA’s Orion spacecraft returned to Earth from its trip around the moon last month, it was moving blazingly fast, nearly 25,000 mph, or 32 times the speed of sound. On a trip to the moon, a mere 240,000
By Elizabeth Howell, Published by Space.com, 1 February 2023 The company is working with the UK Space Agency for nuclear power and propulsion options in spaceflight. A new image shows a possible version of future space propulsion. Nuclear fission systems, which harness the energy released in the splitting of atoms,
Published by Universe Today, 17 January 2023 We live in an era of renewed space exploration, where multiple agencies are planning to send astronauts to the Moon in the coming years. This will be followed in the next decade with crewed missions to Mars by NASA and China, who may
By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 16 January 2023 The USSF-67 mission carried a military communications satellite and five smaller payloads to orbit. SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket now has five flights under its belt. A Falcon Heavy launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Sunday (Jan.
By Leonard David, Published by Space.com, 15 December 2022 Some scientists say nuclear fusion propulsion is inevitable. But how far away is it, given recent breakthroughs? The announcement this week of fusion ignition is a major scientific advancement, one that is decades in the making. More energy was produced than
