Chinese Interest In Exploration and Exploitation of the Moon
I have blogged before about the plans that China has for lunar exploration. China is carrying out a whole series of missions to the Moon scheduled out to 2020.
Exploring Space with Tiny Sprite Satellites
Last week I blogged about a planned space mission that would launch a thousand tiny satellites the size of cell phones towards another star propelled by giant lasers.
Breakthrough Starshot Aims To Send A Fleet Of Tiny Spacecraft To The Nearest Star
Yuri Milner is a billionaire Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist. He is the founder of an investment firm originally named Digital Sky Technologies which is now called Mail.ru Group. He also founded DST Global.
SpaceX Delivers Bigelow Expandable Activity Module To International Space Station For Testing
I blogged last time about the success of SpaceX in landing a Falcon 9 first stage on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean. That was not their only recent "first." SpaceX has been shipping cargo to the International Space Station with their Falcon 9 launch vehicles and their Dragon spacecraft and they recently delivered a very special package to the ISS.
SpaceX Successfully Lands A Falcon 9 First Stage On Barge At Sea
One of the major costs of space exploration and exploitation is the one-time use of launch vehicles.
Prospects for Space Tourism
One of the applications that is being considered for spacecraft is tourism and transportation. Last week, the U.N.
Controversial RF Resonant Cavity Thruster
I have discussed a number of actual and theoretical engines to be used for spacecraft in this blog. There is a category of space drives that I have not discussed because they are wild speculation about designs that in some way defy well known physical laws which makes their construction and use highly improbable to say the least.
Russian Nuclear Powered Ion Space Propulsion System
Last week, I blogged about using lasers and space sails for the propulsion of spacecraft. This week, I am going to talk about using nuclear fission for space propulsion.
Russian Engineering Students Use Crowd Funding for Bright Satellite
Crowd funding is a new approach to raising funds for projects.
NASA Researching Laser Based Space Propulsion
The basic idea of using a light beam to power a sail attached to a spacecraft with photon bombardment has been around a long time.