Project Orion was a US project to develop a spacecraft powered by nuclear explosions. Although it may sound implausible at first glance, research carried out by leading scientists and engineers of the day, includingFreeman Dyson, indicated that such a project was not only feasible but wouldvastly...
Project New Orion entails a pulsed nuclear space propulsion system that utilizes photofission through the implementation of an ultra-intense laser. The historical origins derive from the endeavors of Project Orion, which utilized thermonuclear devices to impart a considerable velocity increment on the ...
This 7-year project, sponsored by the DOE Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration, invested $1.8 billion in application development, software technology, and hardware and integration research conducted by more than 1,000 people located throughout the nation, involving DOE ...
SpaceX says Super Heavy is necessary to get the spacecraft out of Earth's gravity well with enough fuel to get where it's going. Starship can then travel to its destination (like Mars) and then launch itself back into space without Super Heavy, thanks to the lower gravity. Starship is ...
The SLS is designed to carry astronauts in NASA's Orion spacecraft deeper into space than ever before, to destinations including an asteroid and Mars. NASA is using existing and in-development hardware and infrastructure, including the RS-25 engine, to the maximum extent possible to enable NASA...
s gyroscopes were not giving him accurate attitude readings. Glenn flew the capsule literally by hand, like a pilot, keeping the constellation Orion centered in the cockpit window. He was the first astronaut, American or Soviet, to take so much control of a spacecraft. As he re-entered the...
"With light beams, light sails and the lightest spacecraft ever built, we can launch a mission to Alpha Centauri within a generation," he added. "Today, we commit to this next great leap into the cosmos. Because we are human, and our nature is to fly." The Starshot spacecraft will ...
After Hawkman destroys the spacecraft, the heroes work quickly to repair the damaged JL Satellite, which is de-powered and falling out of orbit. While they toil, Black Canary realizes the spacecraft was a US military AI drone that had gone rogue. Against all odds, the JLA is able to ...
In space, no one will think twice about deploying nuclear missiles and all the power they contain, to say nothing of all the new and interesting ways humans will surely think up to kill each other. Even energy shields don’tsolve the problemin a realistic universe, because the amount of ...
Spacecraft orbital manuevers are gone into in more detailelsewhere. But here are the basics. ASTROGATION GLOSSARY ApoapsisIn an orbit, the point of the orbit farthest from the astronomical body currently being orbited. PeriapsisIn an orbit, the point of the orbit closest to the astronomical body...