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The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts(NIAC) programme supports breakthroughs in space exploration by funding early-stage studies to evaluate technologies that could shape the future of aeronautics (the projects are not considered official NASA missions.) In 2022, NASA will award all 17 research teams ...
By contrast, planetary science missions benefiting from the NASA-H71M electric propulsion system technology could operate for 15,000 hours and process over 30% of the small spacecraft’s initial mass in propellant. This game-changing capability is well beyond the needs of most commercial LEO missio...
3D-printed NASA satellite ‘game changer’ for the cost of space exploration: Physicist American physicist and author Michio Kaku says 3D-printed rockets has lowered the cost of space exploration ten-fold. NASA’smission to the moonhas returned – but this time, with a modern tech twist...
The Compact Thermal Imager captured unusually severe fires in Australia from its perch on the International Space Station in 2019 and 2020. With its high resolution, detected the shape and location of fire fronts and how far they were from settled areas — information critically important to fir...
A collection of space-exploration themed coding tutorials created in collaboration with NASA! Students can tap into their artistic side in "Design a Mission Patch," get creative in "Tell Your Lunar Gateway Story," take control of robots in "Rover Relay," and imagine their home in space in ...
The premise behind the new game from NASA’s new game, “The Lost Universe,” is simple. What if a dragon stole the Hubble Space Telescope? Sign up for the 94.5 KATS Newsletter Where did the dragon come from? How did it capture the telescope? Where did it take it? When did you take...
And thankfully, it worked! Both MarsCO satellites also made it to Mars safely – the first time such satellites have made it into deep space. _FYI, if you want to test how you might have done landing the spacecraft,this minigamelets you give it a try._ ...
1NASA selects university teams for space explorationThe moon's permanently shadowed areas, nearly 384, 400 kilometers away from home, are the closest water source outside the earth. The craters have been dark since billions of years ago. But now with student-developed technologies, more about ...
Earlier this month, NASA awarded a $69 million contract to SpaceX, the space exploration company led by Elon Musk, to help it withasteroid deflectionvia its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP...