Lattice Confinement Fusion Probe Could Melt Its Way Down to Alien Life on Ice Worlds
13 Jan 2023, 17:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the 14 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase I grants went this month to the idea of a probe powered by lattice confinement fusion
New Horizons Spaceship Nearing Unique Encounter with Ultima Thule on January 1
27 Dec 2018, 10:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The New Horizons spaceship, currently the second fastest human-made machine, is approaching the Ultima Thule object in the Kuiper Belt
New Horizons Fires Engine for Historic Encounter Billions of Miles from Home
7 Oct 2018, 10:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Engineers made the last optical navigation engine burn of the New Horizons spaceships as it nears the Ultima Thule Kuiper belt object.
NASA Reactivates New Horizons Probe for Ultima Thule Encounter
7 Jun 2018, 09:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA wakes the New Horizons probe to get it ready for the January encounter with a trans-Neptunian object called Ultima Thule.
Here’s How New Horizons’ Pluto Flyby Looked Like
19 Aug 2015, 10:39 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / New Horizons has recently reached its purpose getting extremely close to Pluto. Several pictures were taken and sent back to Earth