This is an orbit-to-orbit design spacecraft from the Martin Marietta corporation. I found it in a book Man's Conquest of Space by the National Geographic Society (1968). Now you know as much as I do.
Does anybody know if this was an actual study or just something slapped together by the MM...
The first of the "Thousand Astronomical Unit" space probes designed from the late 70's into the 80's. Nuclear electric propulsion would send the craft on a fifty-year mission into interplanetary space to test technologies for a future true interstellar mission, for deep-space science and to map...
1970s
1980s
deep space probes
interstellar space
jet propulsion laboratory
nasa
nuclear-electric propulsion
solar system
stellar cartography
thousand astronomical unit
In 2003, I wrote in a white heat an essay on Columbia's loss, which took on the shuttle's history. I submitted this to "Harper's" and "The Atlantic," neither of which bought it.
Unrevised save for the addition of photos, it can be found on my personal website here...
In other words, steampunk in the space age. ;D
ORIGINAL CAPTION: AREE is a clockwork rover inspired by mechanical computers. A JPL team is studying how this kind of rover could explore extreme environments, like the surface of Venus. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech...
The Leros engine has commonalities with other engines that have called issues including MUOS 5 I believe.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/due-to-concerns-about-engine-juno-to-remain-in-elongated-jupiter-orbit/
1980s
cold war
late 1970s
nasa
national reconnaissance office
space age
space race
space shuttle
space transportation system
spy sat
strategic reconnaissance
united states air force
Artist’s conception of the Lucy and Psyche mission spacecraft
(Left) An artist’s conception of the Lucy spacecraft flying by the Trojan Eurybates – one of the six diverse and scientifically important Trojans to be studied. Trojans are fossils of planet formation and so will supply important...
Early 1970s design for a Synchronous Earth Observation Satellite (SEOS) that bears a surprising resemblance to Hubble, it just points in the other direction. The intention was to provide improved coverage of mesoscale weather phenomena like tornadoes, ground fogs, clear air turbulence and other...
Somehow I completely missed this. Never even heard of it before.
http://www.nasa.gov/content/max-launch-abort-system-or-mlas-was-successfully-tested-at-nasas-wallops-flight-facility
NASA's Next Mars Rover Progresses Toward 2020 Launch
http://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1922
http://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/images/?ImageID=7909
I've added a new article on Philip Bono's work on the Encyclopedia Astronautica at:
http://www.astronautix.com/b/bono.html
You may notice I've reorganized and reformatted the site, and am now (after some time) begun adding new and updated content. So please visit regularly to see what is new -...
And here we have the first X plane in a decade, the X-57 nicknamed Maxwell.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasas-x-57-hybrid-electric-research-plane
NASA Administrator to Make X-Plane Announcement at Reagan National Media Event
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-to-make-x-plane-announcement-at-reagan-national-media-event
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