Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion ... starting off with prototypes on NASA's Deep Space 1 and the European Space Agency's SMART-1 in 1998 and 2003, respectively, and subsequently finding ...
NASA’s pioneering Voyager 1 spacecraft is adventuring beyond our ... An engineer working with NASA’s Deep Space Network—the communications and tracking network that talks to Voyager 1 ...
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Forgotten NASA spacecraft wakes up 15 billion miles away after 43 years of silenceWhen the flight team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California sends instructions to the spacecraft via the ...
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Water-based plasma thrusters could power spacecraft for deep space missionsThe new approach called the Water-based Electric Thrusters (WET) aims to develop a method of converting water into plasma, a ...
NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?
"Alpha Centauri is 4.3 light-years away; about 2,000 times further away from the sun than the Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached — the furthest spacecraft we've ever sent into deep space so far.
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