Space Exploration Technologies
The Lunar Gateway Will be in a “Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit”
After months of discussion, the space agencies behind the Lunar Gateway have decided how the space station will orbit the…
LightSail 2 is Sending Home New Pictures of Earth
LightSail 2, the brainchild of The Planetary Society, has gifted us two new gorgeous images of Earth. The small spacecraft…
The ESA’s SpaceBok Robot Will Hop Its Way Around Low-Gravity Worlds
The ESA is helping a group of students from Zurich test and develop their hopping exploration robot. Called SpaceBok, the…
MOONRISE: Melting lunar regolith with lasers to build structures on the Moon
A team of German scientists have invented a new laser system that could be used to build a lunar base…
Prototype of a Future Interstellar Probe was Just Tested on a Balloon
Researchers with the UCSB Experimental Cosmology Group recently conducted a successful stratospheric test of their wafercraft, which could be traveling…
SpaceX Tests the Starship’s Hexagonal Heatshield. Starhopper Tests Could Come as Early as This Week
The milestones just keep coming for SpaceX. After the recent successful test flight of the Crew Dragon capsule, another of…
Steam-Powered Spacecraft Could Explore the Asteroid Belt Forever, Refueling Itself in Space
A partnership between Honeybee Robotics and the University of Central Florida has produced the first steam-powered spacecraft for asteroid mining.
The Prototype for the Starship has been Assembled, Hop Tests Could be Happening Soon
In an announcement sure to make you quiver with delight, Elon Musk says that SpaceX could begin short-hop test flights…
A Nuclear-Powered Tunneling Robot that Could Search for Life on Europa
The search for life has led astronomers to the icy moons in our Solar System. Among those moons, Europa has…
Exactly How We Would Send our First Laser-Powered Probe to Alpha Centauri
In a recent study, an international team of scientists present their concept for a lightsail and spacecraft that could make…