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10/23/2018 / By Edsel Cook

California-based space company testing a mini propulsion system for planetary microsat missions

An American space technology company is almost ready to release a new propulsion system that could one day be installed on most spacecraft. The improved thrusters will be small enough to mount on microsatellites, yet powerful enough to propel larger space probes on interplanetary missions away from Earth, an article in Space.com stated. The system […]

09/11/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Space tech companies developing ultra-small plasma-propulsion system for future interplanetary travel

Everything is getting smaller these days. That includes spacecraft and the electric propulsion systems that carry them through the void. In an article in Space.com, a pair of space tech companies are working on new thruster designs that can be fitted aboard smaller spacecraft and the tiniest satellites. Electric thrusters propel a spacecraft by using electricity to […]

08/01/2018 / By Edsel Cook

IAC researcher proposes a new technomarker to detect alien civilizations

A Spanish researcher made an argument that the search for intelligent alien life should concentrate on looking for signs of a “Clarke Exobelt,” a densely populated belt of artificial satellites surrounding the home planet of a hypothetical advanced alien civilization. In his recently published paper, he believed that this technological marker could be spotted by […]

06/11/2018 / By David Williams

Phoning home from space: NASA’s Deep Space Network makes it possible

Have you ever wondered how exactly the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) manages to retrieve all of the data and information it gathers in space through its various probes, satellites, orbiters, and rovers? If you guessed that it uses one of the most advanced and most sophisticated communication systems ever devised, you guessed right. […]

06/07/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Alien life may exist in Jupiter’s moon Europa and other frozen worlds

The ice cap of frozen worlds – like the Jovian moon Europa – could be concealing alien life. In a Space.com article, new research suggests that heat from the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of global oceans could be reacting with oxidants that penetrate the ice sheet, there providing the conditions for life in these […]

04/28/2018 / By David Williams

Researchers develop air-powered ion thruster engine that could be used in space missions

Did you know that scientists are looking for ways to improve current propulsion systems for existing satellites and future space missions? Indeed they are, and it seems that the experts working at the European Space Agency (ESA) have just come upon a potential solution. The ESA announced that it successfully tested a new prototype ion […]

06/13/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Nearly ALL communications satellites could be obliterated in the next few years from a cascading “explosion” of space debris

Space junk is an imminent menace to communications satellites, scientists are warning. Satellites, particularly of a military variety, are already under potential threat from ground-based hostile aggressors with missiles, lasers, kinetic weapons, cyber attacks, and other disruptive measures. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist, as it were, to realize that space trash left behind […]

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