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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 […]

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. […]

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