...’, access to extended communication opportunities with family and friends, and opportunities to interact with media. However, deep space travel and remote bases pose new challenges, such as absence of resupply missions, communication delays, increase...
...extreme temperatures when Orion goes on its second journey into deep space. Orion's next mission will take the craft around the ...will take astronauts Beyond Low-Earth Orbit (BLEO) and into deep space. Orion can carry and sustain a crew of four for ...
...of the moon, go quite a bit farther out into deep space, and then loop back to Earth. I’m guessing probably ... to ten times. Musk had also mentioned installing a “deep space communications system”, necessary for longer trips, that still has to be...
...," said Andy Klesh of JPL, MarCO's chief engineer. "CubeSats haven't had to survive the intense radiation of a trip to deep space before, or use propulsion to point their way towards Mars. We hope to blaze that trail." With the prospect...
Working together, Intuitive Machines (IM) and Goonhilly Earth Station (GES) Ltd. recently integrated GES’s newly commissioned deep space antenna (GHY-6) into IM’s Lunar Telemetry and Tracking Network (LTN). The LTN will provide near-continuous ...
...the Sun Hayabusa2 spent 2.5 years after swing-by travelling in deep space towards Ryugu. Over such long journeys, the spacecraft is...one of the first missions to use ion engines in deep space. The first Hayabusa visited the stony-type asteroid Itokawa,...