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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away
Voyager 1 relays messages to NASA’s mission control team after losing contact due to a technical issue. The aging spacecraft ...
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Asteroid-mining company AstroForge gets 1st-ever FCC license for commercial deep-space mission
AstroForce has received a commercial license for operating and communicating with a mission headed to a near-Earth asteroid, ...
NASA reconnects with interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft using technology not used in decades
NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered ...
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Atom for Space: Nuclear Propulsion for Interstellar Navigation
Many countries today have deep-space exploration programs with nuclear propulsion technology experiments. Nuclear pulse propulsion was first developed as Project Orion by the Defense Advanced ...
Voyager 1 Reconnects With Earth Over Radio Transmitter That Hasn’t Been Used In 47 Years
Voyager 1 remains humanity’s furthest outpost, hurtling across interstellar space at 38,210 miles per hour. However, NASA ...
Speedier Space Transmissions
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment—currently aboard the Psyche spacecraft en route to a distant ...
Pew Pew: Space Lasers Could Change How We Talk to Mars and Beyond
NASA is experimenting with Invisible beams of light to transmit data to Earth, which can pack 10 to 100 times more ...
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Voyager 1 is alive: NASA spacecraft reawakens 15 billion miles away from Earth
On October 16th, Voyager 1's fault protection system kicked in, a safety measure designed to preserve the spacecraft's ...
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Nuclear propulsion system proposed for European space missions
A consortium led by Belgian engineering firm Tractebel has completed the European Space Agency-commissioned RocketRoll ...
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EOI Space Achieves Milestone with Successful Testing of Flight Propulsion System
EOI Space is thrilled to announce the successful completion of the first phase testing of our leading-edge, sixth-generation hall effect thruster (HET-F).
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Launch Vehicles & Propulsion
Space launch vehicles are designed to transport payloads such as satellites, spacecraft, and cargo into low-Earth orbit and beyond. These vehicles rely on propulsion systems that generate immense ...