28 February 2017
The future is here: Elon Musk announces commercial flights to the Moon
...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...
23 April 2018
CubeSats lead the way for new NASA missions
...," 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...
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
... spacecraft ever to orbit a resident of the asteroid belt. It is also the only ship ever targeted to orbit two deep-space destinations. This unique mission would be quite impossible without its advanced ion propulsion system, giving it capabilities...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
...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,...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
...’, 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...
17 December 2021
First commercial lunar distance communications network validated in space
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 ...
