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Firefly Research receives NASA SBIR award for solar electric space utility vehicle 2 min read Firefly Aerospace Inc., a U.S. developer of orbital launch vehicles for the small to medium satellite market owned by Ukrainian businessman Maksym Polyakov, has received the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) award from NASA to develop a solar electric transfer stage capable of taking payloads from the Earth to the moon – the Space Utility Vehicle (SUV). The new SUV will be able to deliver payloads into orbits that are difficult to reach with conventional rockets, the company's press...

Mar 14, 2021 05:18 EDT with 0 comments In the coming week, it's expected that there will be around five rocket launches from the likes of Firefly Aerospace, SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Glavkosmos. The most interesting launch will be that of the Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket which is making its maiden flight from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket, which we have been saying will launch for the last two weeks, still hasn’t launched yet but could do on Monday. Firefly Alpha The first launch of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket will be carrying c...

Share this article COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  Space Foundation, a 501(c)(3) global space advocate for nearly 40 years, today announced a new three-year partnership with Noosphere Venture Partners LP to support its annual International Student Art Contest. Now beginning its second decade, the contest invites students from around the world to electronically submit their original artwork in response to different themes announced each year. Student artists may draw, paint or create a mixed media or digital work of art and submit it online for entry. (PRNewsfoto/Noosp...

Future astronauts could use methane to make rocket fuel on Mars Space 08/01/2021 Chelsea Gohd © Provided by Space This concept design shows future astronauts on Mars. A new study shows how future astronauts might use local materials to make methane-based rocket fuel to get home. How will future astronauts get back home to Earth from Mars? According to a new study, they could make rocket fuel from the methane that's already on the Red Planet.  Researchers have devised a new way to create methane-based rocket fuel that they hope could make return trips from Mars far more f...

Researchers have found a new way to convert methane into rocket fuel on Mars — adding crucial flexibility to future astronaut missions to the Red Planet, according to a recent blog post on the University of California, Irvine's (UCI's) official website. Scientists create new way to convert methane into rocket fuel on Mars Elon Musk and other engineers at SpaceX theorized such a method while searching for ways to combine water from ice on Mars with carbon dioxide to procure enough carbon and hydrogen for methane production. Once astronauts make it to Mars they might use this method to transf...