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Space Systems Command Issues RFI for Instrumentation Range Support Program Contract
Discover the details of the proposed Instrumentation Range Support Program contract from the Space Systems Command.
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Electric spacecraft propulsion may soon take a leap, thanks to new supercomputer
Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...
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Chinese Space Station Achieves First-Ever Oxygen and Rocket Fuel Production Using Artificial Photosynthesis
When humans dream of venturing farther into the cosmos, one question looms: how do we sustain life and the journey toward the ...
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PULSAR consortium designs nuclear power system for lunar missions
The PULSAR research project, led by Belgian engineering firm Tractebel, has unveiled the conceptual design of a plutonium-238 ...
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Europe unveils mini nuclear system for moon rovers on extreme lunar missions
The RPS uses two Stirling engines to convert the heat generated by the decay of Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) into electricity.
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General Atomics tests nuclear thermal propulsion fuel for space missions
General Atomics has completed several key tests for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) reactor technology at NASA’s MSFC.
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Solar System
The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt. NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has ...