ESA mulls Solaris plan to beam solar energy from space
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That burn, the “return powered flyby” maneuver, will slingshot Orion back toward Earth for a high-speed reentry and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean west of San Diego on December 11.
Asked how he felt about the mission given its smooth, relatively problem-free start, Sarafin said “we are on flight day six of a 26-day mission, so I would give it a cautiously optimistic A-plus.” But he quickly added, “we’re taking it very seriously. I will rest well on December 11, after splashdown and recovery is complete.”
The US, China and Japan are also advanced in the race to develop space-based solar power and are expected to announce their own plans shortly. Separately from the ESA proposal, in the UK, a company, Space buy phone number list Solar, has been formed. It aims to demonstrate beaming power from space within six years, and doing so commercially within nine years.
NASA’s Orion capsule races past the moon in a course-changing flyby
Out of contact on the far side of the moon, NASA’s unpiloted Orion crew capsule carried out a critical rocket firing and lunar flyby Monday, flinging the craft toward a distant orbit for tests intended to pave the way to a piloted flight in 2024.
NASA managers met Saturday, four days after Orion’s sky-lighting launch, and gave flight controllers a “go” to proceed with Orion’s “outbound powered flyby” maneuver, a two-and-a-half-minute firing of the spacecraft’s main engine starting at 7:44 a.m. EST Monday.
Dramatic live video from cameras mounted on the spacecraft showed Earth slowly approaching the limb of the moon and then disappearing as Orion passed out of contact behind the moon at 7:25 a.m. Nineteen minutes later, still out of contact, Orion executed the engine firing on its own as planned.
Asked how he felt about the mission given its smooth, relatively problem-free start, Sarafin said “we are on flight day six of a 26-day mission, so I would give it a cautiously optimistic A-plus.” But he quickly added, “we’re taking it very seriously. I will rest well on December 11, after splashdown and recovery is complete.”
The US, China and Japan are also advanced in the race to develop space-based solar power and are expected to announce their own plans shortly. Separately from the ESA proposal, in the UK, a company, Space buy phone number list Solar, has been formed. It aims to demonstrate beaming power from space within six years, and doing so commercially within nine years.
NASA’s Orion capsule races past the moon in a course-changing flyby
Out of contact on the far side of the moon, NASA’s unpiloted Orion crew capsule carried out a critical rocket firing and lunar flyby Monday, flinging the craft toward a distant orbit for tests intended to pave the way to a piloted flight in 2024.
NASA managers met Saturday, four days after Orion’s sky-lighting launch, and gave flight controllers a “go” to proceed with Orion’s “outbound powered flyby” maneuver, a two-and-a-half-minute firing of the spacecraft’s main engine starting at 7:44 a.m. EST Monday.
Dramatic live video from cameras mounted on the spacecraft showed Earth slowly approaching the limb of the moon and then disappearing as Orion passed out of contact behind the moon at 7:25 a.m. Nineteen minutes later, still out of contact, Orion executed the engine firing on its own as planned.