For a piloted mission to Mars, fueling up on the moon could streamline cargo by 68 percent Launching humans to Mars may not require a full tank of gas: A new MIT study suggests that a Martia... Read more
Currently, a significant fraction of the engineering cost and launch mass of space systems is required exclusively to enable the system to survive launch. This is particularly true for syste... Read more
A TubeSat is a (very) low-cost alternative to the CubeSat Interorbital Systems (IOS), a rocket and spacecraft construction company founded in 1996, is ready to fulfill its 2009 goal of makin... Read more
A fleet of small satellites fitted with solar-powered lasers Pioneering engineers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow are developing an innovative technique based on lasers that coul... Read more
Image by Royalty-free image collection via Flickr The search for a second Earth gets serious IN THE 19th century astronomers spent a lot of time seeking shadows crossing the sun. They were s... Read more