BEIJING, April 12 (Xinhua) -- China's advancements in space technology have the potential to revolutionize food preservation on Earth, with spacecraft engineers repurposing a cutting-edge barrier film, originally designed for the orbital space station, to effectively maintain the health and freshness ...
On Earth that usually isn't a problem because plants absorb CO2. Yet gardening space is limited on the ISS, which forced engineers to devise other means of removing excess carbon dioxide. After the electrolysis process kicks in, some of the hydrogen reacts with the accumulating CO2. A byprod...
Starship is designed to carry cargo and people beyond Earth and is critical to NASA's plan to return astronauts to the moon. Two years ago, SpaceX won a nearly $3 billion contract from NASA to use Starship as a crewed lunar lander. That would see Starship be used for as part of NASA...
The U.S. technology embargo has only energized Chinese scientists and engineers to create domestic alternatives. But it also hampers global innovation and will breed a variety of different — likely incompatible — technological systems and standards. This is a nightmare. Information TechnologySpace Coo...
A U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are set to return to Earth from the International Space Station in just a few hours. The three Expedition 66 Flight engineers, Pyotr Dubroz, Anton Shkaplerov and Mark Vande Hei, are set to touch down in Kazakhstan....
NEAR EARTH OBJECTS Near-Earth Object (NEO) intercept Asteroid rendezvous and station keeping LIBRATION POINT ORBITS AND TRANSFERS Generate libration point orbit families Manifold orbit design Visual transfer design DENSE VISUAL SEARCH Visually filter millions of points ...
In the face of such political challenges through and beyond the decade of the Apollo missions, when the excitement and wonder about the dawning Space Age focused on the Moon, a group of visionary engineers took the first steps toward realizing this unproven space technology focused on the Earth...
and we're gonna ride that rocket for eight minutes into Earth orbit. We're not going to go to the moon right away. We're gonna stay in an amazing high orbit, reaching a peak of tens of thousands of miles while we test out all the systems on Orion and see how it maneuvers in sp...
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.
Engineers must calculate the ideal orbits for sending a spacecraft from Earth to Mars. Like throwing a dart at a moving target from a moving vehicle, they must calculate where the planet will be when the spacecraft arrives, not where it is when it leaves Earth. It's also not possible ...