Pipelines Built by Robots on the Moon Will Carry Local Oxygen for Astronaut Use
18 Jan 2023, 15:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A researcher with Lunar Resources is working on creating the premises for a lunar oxygen pipeline to help future colonization efforts
New In-Space Manufacturing Method Could Create the Ultimate Orbital Storm Chasers
17 Jan 2023, 13:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A scientist from the MIT won a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts grant for an in-space building method for space structures
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
Levitation Powered by Light Could Unlock the Secrets of Earth’s Mesosphere
12 Jan 2023, 11:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / University of Pennsylvania’s Igor Bargatin imagines tiny levitating vehicles that could be used for the extensive study of the mesosphere
Fluidic Telescope Sounds Like Something Out of Terminator, NASA Seriously Considering It
11 Jan 2023, 15:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA awarded an Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program Phase I grant to the idea of a telescope whose mirror could be formed in space
Someone Wants to Bring Back a Piece of Venus’ Atmosphere, And Some Cloud
3 Oct 2022, 06:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts grants awarded earlier this year targets a mission to sample Venus' atmosphere
Starburst: The Space-Based Structure Meant to Help Us Spy on Storms From Birth to Death
18 Sep 2022, 01:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Starburst has been imagined as an adaptable deployable structure architecture meant to support weather satellites, could grow to be much more
SpaceX-Launched Space Bullets Could One Day Kill Sneaky Asteroids Before They Kill Us
17 Sep 2022, 01:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts idea explores how a range of small hypervelocity kinetic penetrators could stop asteroids from destroying Earth
New Solar Sails Tech Could Push Spacecraft to Places Where the Sun Barely Shines, And Fast
12 Sep 2022, 06:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA awarded a Phase I NIAC grant to an idea of a solar sail featuring something called quantum dot-based spectrometer printed directly onto it
Perseverance Made a Bit of Oxygen on Mars, New Solution Could Make More, Easier
10 Sep 2022, 01:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A scientist from the Arizona State University is looking into using thermal swing sorption/desorption (TSSD) to make oxygen on Mars
ReachBot Was Designed to Crawl Into Caves, Possibly Even on Mars
22 Apr 2021, 14:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / ReachBot is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts project created by a scientist from the Stanford University, it can crawl and anchor
Spaceship With Fancy APPLE Power Could Reach Saturn in One Year, Pluto in Four
20 Apr 2021, 15:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Atomic Planar Power for Lightweight Exploration (APPLE) is a concept of an enabling platform that should enable very fast space travel for small spaceships
Atomic Spaceship Could Chase Future Oumuamua, See What the Fuss Is All About
16 Apr 2021, 14:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Christopher Morrison from the Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation imagines an atomic spacecraft that could chase distant asteroids for long periods of time
This Is a RAM to Beat Moon Dust Into Submission
15 Apr 2021, 14:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Engineer comes up with a technology meant to reinforce and fuse lunar surface materials and allow safe landings for future missions
This Spacecraft Could Make Its Own Fuel on Titan, Head Back Home
14 Apr 2021, 15:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The aptly-named Titan Sample Return Using In-Situ Propellants spacecraft could use locally-available substances to make its own fuel
Huge FarView Moon Observatory Meant to Look Back in Time to the Cosmic Dark Ages
13 Apr 2021, 13:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / FarView is the name of a proposal for a lunar low-frequency radio observatory meant to look as far back as 370,000 years after the Big Bang
Light Bender Technology Could Beam Sun Energy Into the Moon’s Darkest Corners
12 Apr 2021, 11:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's NIAC program backs the Light Bender, a technology meant to capture the light from the Sun and then beam it to where it is needed on the Moon
Things Should Orderly FLOAT on the Moon on Levitation Railway Track
9 Apr 2021, 09:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory envisions a floating transport system for the needs of the future base there
3-Feet Long Borebots Could Dig 1 Mile Down Into the Surface of Mars Chasing Life
8 Apr 2021, 15:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The borebots are part of a study meant to find ways to dig deeper under the surface of the Red Planet in search of signs of life
Almost Mile-Long Space Structure Could Deploy From Falcon Heavy
2 Apr 2021, 15:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A team from the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is working on a metamaterial space structure that is small on Earth but could greatly expand in space