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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Aaswath Pattabhi RamanUniversity of California, Los Angeles Exploration of Mars has captivated the public in recent decades with high-profile robotic missions and the images they have acquired seeding our collective imagination. NASA is actively planning for human exploration of Mars and laid out some of the key capabilities that mustContinue reading “Electro-luminescently Cooled Zero-boil-off Propellant Depots Enabling Crewed Exploration of Mars”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Lynn RothschildNASA Ames Research Center (ARC) Water is the lifeblood of human survival and civilization and is critical for our sustained exploration beyond Earth. Fortunately, Mars has plenty of water to sustain our aspirations in the form of subsurface ice. Unfortunately, it is not clean water – it is contaminatedContinue reading “Detoxifying Mars: the biocatalytic elimination of omnipresent perchlorates”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Steven BennerFoundation For Applied Molecular Evolution As noted at NASA’s 2019 Carlsbad Conference we have good reason to think that: The purpose of this NIAC project is to change this view, and to do so before human arrival planned by NASA, the Chinese National Space Agency, and SpaceX, “by 2040”,Continue reading “Add-on to Large-Scale Water Mining Operations on Mars to Screen for Introduced and Alien Life”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Zhang, Beijia Zhang, BeijiaMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lincoln Lab Very large space-based RF antennas can be large and expensive to manufacture and deploy. These problems become more challenging for cases when an array of antennas are needed such as for correlation interferometers that provide high spatial resolution of EarthContinue reading “LIFA: Lightweight Fiber-based Antenna for Small Sat-Compatible Radiometry”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Thomas EubanksSpace Initiatives, Inc. Tiny gram-scale interstellar probes pushed by laser light are likely to be the only technology capable of reaching another star this century. We presuppose availability by mid-century of a laser beamer powerful enough (~100-GW) to boost a few grams to relativistic speed, lasersails robust enough toContinue reading “Swarming Proxima Centauri: Coherent Picospacecraft Swarms Over Interstellar Distances”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Alvaro Romero-CalvoGeorgia Tech Research Corporation Human space exploration is presented with multiple challenges, such as the near absence of buoyancy in orbit or the reliable, efficient, and sustainable operation of life support systems. The production and management of oxygen and hydrogen are of key importance for long-term space travel and,Continue reading “Magnetohydrodynamic Drive for Hydrogen and Oxygen Production in Mars Transfer”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY James BickfordCharles Stark Draper Laboratory New exciting missions, such as a rendezvous with a passing interstellar object, or a multi-target observing effort at the solar gravitational focus, require velocities that are well in excess of conventional rocketry. Exotic solar sail approaches may enable reaching the required distant localities, but areContinue reading “Thin Film Isotope Nuclear Engine Rocket (TFINER)”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Phase I Matthew McQuinnSolar System-Scale VLBI to Dramatically Improve Cosmological Distance MeasurementsUniversity of Washington, SeattleSeattle, Washington 98195-10002024 Phase I Kenneth CarpenterA Lunar Long-Baseline Optical Imaging Interferometer: Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI)NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbelt, MD 20771-24002024 Phase I Alvaro Romero-CalvoMagnetohydrodynamic Drive for Hydrogen and Oxygen Production in Mars TransferGeorgia TechContinue reading “NIAC 2024 Selections”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is inviting people to send their names to the surface of the Moon aboard the agency’s first robotic lunar rover, VIPER – short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover. The rover will embark on a mission to the lunar South Pole to unravel the mysteries of the Moon’s water andContinue reading “NASA Invites Public to Send Names Aboard Artemis Robotic Moon Rover”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By combining several years of observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope along with conducting computer modelling, astronomers have found evidence for massive cyclones and other dynamic weather activity swirling on a hot, Jupiter-sized planet 880 light-years away. The planet, called WASP-121 b, is not habitable. But this result is anContinue reading “NASA’s Hubble Observes Exoplanet Atmosphere Changing Over 3 Years”