Tag: Mars mission
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6U CubeSat to Mars
We’ve been working on Asteroid Prospector, a 6U CubeSat to explore Near Earth Objects, for the past two years. It is quite a challenge to pack all the hardware into a 6U frame. Here is our latest design: The nadir face has both an Optical Navigation System camera and a JPL designed robot arm. The…
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PSS featured on Time.com
Only two days after a visit by journalist Michael Lemonick, our DFD fusion drive was featured in his post on Time.com’s science section! Going to Mars via Fusion Power The article does misstate that Sam Cohen is a PSS engineer, when in fact he is the lead researcher on the PFRC at Princeton Plasma Physics…
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Direct Fusion Drive Mars Mission – Deep Space Habitat
Check out our new banner! We modified our spacecraft to use NASA’s Deep Space Habitat: Image Source: NASASpaceFlight The habitat has a 500 day configuration, with more than enough room for all of the astronauts and their supplies! http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/03/dsh-module-concepts-outlined-beo-exploration/ http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/04/delving-deeper-dsh-configurations-support-craft/ We will use the Orion spacecraft for transfer from…
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Twenty-Four People
That is the number of people in the entire history of human civilization who have left Low Earth Orbit (LEO). You heard me right, only 24 people (all Apollo astronauts) have left the protection of Earth’s magnetic field. The prospects of journeying past LEO is a daunting one. There is dangerous radiation in deep space…
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Human Missions To Mars
You may have noticed that we have a new banner image of our Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) transfer vehicle with the Orion spacecraft. http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/index.html This is because we have been able to shrink the spacecraft so that it fits on top of a single NASA Space Launch System (SLS) http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/ Evolved Configuration launcher which can…