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Full Braking at Alpha Centauri![]() ![]() Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2017 In April last year, billionaire Yuri Milner announced the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative. He plans to invest 100 million US dollars in the development of an ultra-light light sail that can be accelerated to 20 percent of the speed of light to reach the Alpha Centauri star system within 20 years. The problem of how to slow down this projectile once it reaches its target remains a challenge. Rene Heller of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen and his colleague Michael Hi ... read more |
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![]() Visiting Fellow, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science Space exploration is governed by a complex series of international treaties and agreements which have been ... more ![]() ![]() Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) was launched as a more accurate navigation system compared to the US' GPS system. However, some as yet unexplained technical failures have put the ... more ![]() ![]() York Space Systems, an aerospace company specializing in complete space segment customer solutions and the manufacture of small and medium class spacecraft, has announced the launch of its Space Seg ... more ![]() ![]() The Polish government received an updated offer for its medium-range air defense program from MEADS International. ... more |
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![]() Scientists of Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in collaboration with the French, Swiss and Polish researchers have found unique atomic-scale processes in crystal latti ... more ![]() ![]() Preliminary research results for the NASA One-Year Mission debuted last week at an annual NASA conference. Last March, two men landed back on Earth after having spent nearly one year in space. NASA ... more ![]() ![]() Houston-based Axiom Space is seeking to establish a privately-owned, international commercial space station. The launch of the first module is expected in 2020 The company, led by Mike Suffred ... more ![]() ![]() When astronauts come back from a stint aboard the International Space Station, their brains are not as they were when they left Earth. ... more ![]() ![]() Today, more than 16 years of space-weather data is publicly available for the first time in history. The data comes from space-weather sensors developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory on board th ... more ![]() ![]() Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully ground tested its indigenously developed Cryogenic Upper Stage for GSLV MkIII on January 25, 2017. The cryogenic stage designated as C25 was te ... more |
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![]() ![]() Have a Peek Into What the NASA Twins Study Will Reveal ![]() ![]() Representative of the Russian Mission Control Center said that Progress MS-03 cargo spacecraft, which has served out its time at the International Space Station, will be undocked and drowned in the ... more ![]() ![]() An experiment to measure nitric oxide in the polar sky was successfully launched on a NASA sounding rocket at 8:45 a.m. EST, Jan. 27, 2017, from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. The Po ... more ![]() ![]() China's plans for deep-space exploration included two Mars missions and one Jupiter probe. China plans its first Mars probe by 2020, said Wu Yanhua, vice director of the China National Space A ... more ![]() ![]() Raytheon received a $202 million foreign military sales contract to provide engineering services for its Patriot weapon system. ... more |
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