NASA’s Human Architecture Team (HAT) is actively working on a roadmap towards evolvable demonstrations of Propellant Depots – with a potential goal of setting up an “interplanetary highway” to enable low cost exploration. With proposals being sought, industry sources point to a small, 30 metric ton capacity, Centaur derived depot as an initial leading candidate.
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Travelling through the asteroid belt, the European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft has taken its first…
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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way back to Earth after a multi-year, successful mission…
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CommercialEuropeanInternational
How Lockheed Martin, NASA will send a rocket to Mars to launch samples off the planet to a waiting European Orbiter
It’s an ask never before attempted: Launch samples off the surface of another planet for…
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More than four and a half years after arriving in orbit of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno…
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It seems like an obvious thing to say. When looking to establish a human colony…
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NASA’s plans to land both robots and humans on the moon have taken several steps…
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Now past the halfway mark in its mission at the giant of our solar system,…
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Cassini’s flagship mission to the ringed planet Saturn ended over a year ago, but data…
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Artemis
Mars Sample Return mission gains traction – SLS and Orion had an eye on involvement
by Chris BerginThe European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA have signed a statement of intent to jointly…
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NASA’s InSight Mars lander is ready for the final processing sprint before its launch opportunity…
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NASA’s 2016 budget proposal has provided a small amount of funding to formate a plan…
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NASA is moving up a gear with its manifest planning for the Space Launch System…
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The Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG) have added meat to the bones of a proposal…
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The Advanced Scientific Concepts (ASC) 3D Flash LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) range cameras have…
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With the official opening statements on the overhaul of NASA’s future expected “soon”, the realignment…
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ChineseInternational
China debuts new launchers, tests orbital servicing and outlines future deep-space missions
by Martin SmithCAS Space and Space Pioneer have both debuted new Chinese commercial launchers within days of…
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IndianInternationalSpaceX
Launch Previews: SpaceX and ISRO to launch rideshare missions into SSO
by Martin SmithSpaceX leads the week’s launch manifest with three scheduled missions and, at the time of…
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Fresh off its highly successful NG-2 flight, which launched the ESCAPADE Mars probes and featured…
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SpaceX’s Starship rocket is rapidly advancing through the much-needed paperwork to bring the massive rocket…