August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... free-flying spacecraft. With a few km/s of Delta-V (propulsion) capability, free-flying nanosats could be placed into orbit around ...the first planetary cubesat mission to use ‘green’ propulsion. Another project under development is the Near-Earth ...
13 July 2016
Reaction Engines sign new deal with ESA while UK Space Agency announces new facility
... to get SABRE up and running.” Meanwhile, the UK Space agency also announced yesterday that is is investing £4.12m in a National Propulsion Test Facility, giving the UK a new facility for space technology testing. The planned facility will be based...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... cargo landers. Research into ever more sophisticated propulsion and life support systems will soon enable the... and WIRED. Rod has written extensively for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech. His books published in 2019 include Interplanetary...
13 August 2021
Stuck valves keep Starliner grounded, August flight now unlikely
... teams continue to work around the clock to return functionality to a number of oxidiser valves on the CST-100 Starliner’s propulsion system, the company is simultaneously working with its NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne partners to determine the cause...
04 August 2021
Starliner launch delayed indefinitely following "valve" problems
...launch tomorrow [4 August]. Our team cycled the Service Module propulsion system valves and is taking time to gather data for ...vehicle detected “unexpected valve position indications in the propulsion system.” “Boeing and NASA teams are assessing the...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... key characters - the astronaut stranded on Mars, played by Matt Damon, and the astrodynamicist from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), played by Donald Glover. The astronaut builds a greenhouse on the red planet using all of the...
