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Ever since the first close-up picture of Mars captured in 1965, the hazy and pink world has revealed its mysterious veil. The pace of human exploration of the unknown universe has never stopped. Over the past decades, we have discovered that today’s Martian wasteland hints at a once active world where volcanoes raged, and flash floods rushed over the land.
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In January 2023, the Caltech Space Solar Power Project (SSPP) is poised to launch into orbit a prototype, dubbed the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD), which will test several key components of an ambitious plan to harvest solar power in space and beam the energy back to Earth.
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In this episode, we talk about a microsatellite from MIT that is testing autonomous flight while in Earth's orbit. This technology could help improve the agility and robustness of future satellite missions.
Industry leaders gather to share knowledge and reward emerging talent.
Bion Space became one of the finalists in the Stratosphere Satellite research and engineering program. Their project became a part of a research probe sent into the stratosphere on November 19 to analyze the way lower gravity can affect the biomimetic process of bone-like tissue formation.
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The student winners of the High-Temperature Carbon-Fiber 3D printing challenge have ambitions to build better rovers.
In this episode, we talk about the moonshot plan to beam energy harnessed from the sun in space to anywhere on planet earth.
The origin of Mars’ two moons, Phobos and Deimos, is still unclear. To unravel this mystery, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is scheduled to launch in 2024.
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In this episode, we talk about NASA plans to crash land payloads on Mars to advance our understanding of the red planet.
Like a car’s crumple zone, the experimental SHIELD lander is designed to absorb a hard impact.
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End-to-end recycling solutions deliver the benefits of carbon fiber composites with a more circular approach.
Technologies have played a vital role to provide practical solutions to expensive and risky space projects. With the advent of more precise instruments and techniques, observations in more distant space regions are being enabled which could hold the key to understanding the origins of the universe.
In this episode, we follow up on MIT + JPL’s experiment to make oxygen on Mars - MOXIE - that we first discussed in episode 5.
How an online manufacturer supplied over 50 components for the LUVMI lunar rover, a project of the Space Applications Services that specializes in space technology.
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The ZEUS laser at the University of Michigan has begun its commissioning experiments
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