Space Travel
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Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Swiss Space Systems (S3) have formed a partnership to launch the CleanSpace One satellite into orbit to collect space debris using a launch system that promises to be cheaper than using conventional techniques. -
The winners of NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts 2013 Phase I awards have been chosen based on their potential to transform future aerospace missions by enabling either breakthroughs in aerospace capabilities or entirely new missions. -
SpaceShipTwo's latest test flight provided quite a spectacle with oxidizer flowing through the craft’s propulsion system and expelled through the nozzle at its rear to produce a contrail across the Mojave Desert sky. -
Researchers are developing a new fusion drive rocket engine that promises to make possible a manned spacecraft that could reach Mars and return to Earth in months rather than years. -
A test flight on Wednesday morning saw SpaceShipTwo's nitrous loading and venting systems tested for the first time. -
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo completed its 23rd guide flight this week, which also marked the spaceplane’s first flight in powered flight configuration. -
Neil Armstrong, who on July 21, 1969 became the first man to step on the Moon, has died aged 82. -
After an almost nine month break Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spaceplane is back in the air, successfully completing its 17th glide flight test last week. -
An Ohio high school student has designed a magnetic exhaust nozzle that would double the velocity of an antimatter-powered rocket. -
Dutch company Mars One is planning an extremely ambitious (and perhaps unrealistic) way to land mankind on Mars and keep us there: a reality TV show. -
An anonymous electrical and systems engineer going only by the moniker BTE-Dan has posted surprisingly detailed plans for a full-scale, functioning Starship Enterprise that he claims could be built in 20 years ... for $1 trillion. -
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