The Ad Astra Rocket Company (Ad Astra) and The Space Nuclear Power Corporation (SpaceNukes) have just signed a strategic partnership to advance high-power Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) technology to enable fast and reliable human and robotic missions to Mars and beyond. This alliance builds on
China is working on a spacecraft so massive that it will be more than half a mile in length. This “Ultra-Large” ship is expected to cost millions of dollars and it will revolutionize the way humanity travels across space. The scale of this project is mind-boggling and its implications for the space industry are immense.
China is working on a new satellite-wrecking Death Star-like microwave weapon. Chinese scientists have reportedly developed a multi-beam converging microwave weapon. The new weapon is designed to combine several beams in one location with ultra-precise timing. This weapon could be used to target a single object with its multiple beams.
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The U.S. Space Force said Thursday that after more than nine months in an unusual, highly elliptical orbit, the U.S. military's X-37B spaceplane will soon begin dipping its wings into Earth's atmosphere to lower its altitude before coming back to Earth for a runway landing. The X-37B is also called the Orbital Test Vehicle
Space Initiatives will receive a NAIC grant for interstellar exploration. Tiny gram-scale interstellar probes propelled by laser light are probably the only technology capable of reaching another star during this century.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is charting an ambitious course for the future. It is aiming to solidify Europe's position in space exploration through the “Explore 2040” initiative.
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program nurtures visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions with the creation of radically better or entirely new aerospace concepts. NIAC funded projects study innovative, technically credible, advanced concepts that could one day “Change the Possible” in aerospace. Here is a NAIC Phase I project proposed by Lynn Rothschild at the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC).
Physical infrastructure on the Moon will be critical to any long-term human presence there as both America and China are gearing up for a sustained human lunar presence. A self-deploying tower is one of the most essential parts of that physical infrastructure. These towers can hold numerous pieces of equipment, from solar panels to communications arrays.
A student team at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs looked at the use case of a space elevator on Ceres. They found that it could be done with existing technology. The findings of the team are published in the journal 2024 Regional Student Conferences.
