Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that NASA’s MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft has successfully achieved the first-ever orbit ...
The mission team is hoping BepiColombo can make it to its next gravity assist so that it can arrive at the planet in 2025. Reading time 2 minutes For more than five years, a pair of spacecraft have ...
A Silicon Valley startup wants to use mercury to launch satellites into orbit, potentially lacing the atmosphere with toxic substance. Industry insiders revealed that Apollo Fusion, a two-year-old ...
The BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Mechanical and Propulsion Bus Proto-Flight Model (the Structure with integrated heat pipes and chemical propulsion subsystem) has arrived at ESA’s European ...
Star Trek — as much as we love it — was guilty sometimes of a bit of hyperbole and more than its share of inconsistency. In some episodes, ion drives were advanced technology and in others they were ...