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April 1, 2023
For a number of years now NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has been the driving force behind some of space exploration’s cr...
August 31, 2022
"We're kind of restricted right now, by the tyranny of the rocket equation. I've got to have mass to eject in order to move myself around within the Earth-Moon gravity well and beyond. How do we get past that?" asked SPACECOM deputy commander Lt. Gen. John Shaw.
July 6, 2022
NASA announced new funding for a project led by RIT alumni, faculty, and students that could power spacecraft to orbit the sun’s poles for the first time. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program will provide funding to the Diffractive Solar Sailing project led by Amber Dubill ’20, ’20 MS of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
May 30, 2022
NASA has selected a solar sail concept for development toward a demonstration mission with potential to advance space travel beyond what is currently
May 30, 2022
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May 26, 2022
NASA is moving ahead with a mission to test a next-generation solar sail. The technology could allow new orbits for solar observations.
May 26, 2022
Long-distance ocean travel began with watercraft using zero-emission propulsion systems. Gigantic sails harnessed the power of the wind. As technology developed, oceangoing craft switched to fossil-fuel-based propulsion. Fascinatingly, spacecraft may be taking the opposite trajectory: Our first rockets traveled through space by burning fuel, but now NASA is
May 26, 2022
US space agency NASA is planning to invest about $2 million over two years to develop a new solar sail concept that could propel a mission to the Sun.
May 25, 2022
As NASA exploration continues to push boundaries, a new solar sail concept selected by the agency for development toward a demonstration mission could carry s
May 25, 2022
Get latest articles and stories on Science at LatestLY. As NASAs exploration continues to push boundaries, a new solar sail concept selected by the agency for development toward a demonstration mission could carry science to new destinations. Science News | NASA-supported Solar Sail Could Take Science to New Heights.