“How do we use aerial mobility in the future on Mars, to help not just robotic exploration, but to help human exploration?”
Ellen Stofan
Smithsonian
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Jan 16, 2017
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Jan 12, 2017
U.S. companies will draw on their experience building scientific and commercial communications spacecraft to develop probes that will explore remnants of the early Solar System.
Jan 11, 2017
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Jan 11, 2017
DARPA sees government and private-sector agreement on standards for rendezvous and proximity operations as essential to development of a successful commercial on-orbit robotic satellite repair service.
Jan 06, 2017
With great maps from many sources, the head of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency looks for new paths in an increasingly competitive environment.
Jan 04, 2017
Movement toward more frequent privatized human spaceflight is just one of the big achievements slated for 2017, whatever happens in the White House.
Jan 02, 2017
Public interest worldwide in the global space industry is undergoing a resurgence thanks to social media, plans for human space travel, asteroid mining and competitively-friendly banter between new sector actors, according to a leading advocate of advancing humanity through the peaceful use of space.