18 January 2021
NASA's SLS engine test ends early
... has not witnessed this level of power since the testing of Saturn V stages in the 1960s,” said Stennis Center Director Rick Gilbrech... is the premier rocket propulsion facility that tested the Saturn V first and second stages that carried humans to ...
July 2014
Space technology transfer portals and the chance progress of innovation
...-held device for measuring blood viscosity in patients taking anti-coagulants;1 while research on ways to land instrumentation on Saturn’s moon, Titan, has led – incredibly – to a more efficient way to fill packages with lightweight products such...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... a time when the exploration of space was dependent on monster rockets and huge satellites. Think of the American Saturn or Atlas, the French Ariane and the Russian N1 and Proton vehicles. In that sense, the space industry...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
... of stars. Artist’s conception of the view from the surface of Centaur object 10199 Chariklo that orbits between Saturn and Uranus The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has always tacitly assumed that any civilization...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
..., when Solar System-wide travel will be common, the volatile resources available there are incommensurable - from Saturn’s rings, to Enceladus and its geysers, from Europa’s ocean, to Titan hydrocarbon lakes. There, too, it’s all about...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... target. NASA missions that have used this slingshot effect include Galileo (Jupiter), MESSENGER (Mercury), Cassini (Saturn), and Parker Solar Probe (the Sun). Now, imagine that every time a mission executes a gravity assist...
