Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program
Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, in May 2002. Musk is chief executive officer and chief technology officer of the Hawthorne, California-based company. SpaceX…
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How Falcon 1 started the new era of Spaceflights
On 29 September 2017, Elon Musk announced an updated vehicle design for the Mars mission at the International Astronautical Congress. The replacement vehicle for this…
How we proved the existence of Time Dilation
Rocks are named after the children or family members of astronauts or NASA employees. The name “Jazzy”, for example, was taken from a girl named…
How really good is antimatter-catalyzed Pulse Propulsion
Originally introduced by Sir Isaac Newton in Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, the concepts of absolute time and space provided a theoretical foundation that facilitated Newtonian…
Brightest Nebulas in the Sky
According to the theory of relativity, time dilation is a difference in the elapsed time measured by two observers, either due to a velocity difference…
Gravitational interaction of Antimatter
The Antiproton Decelerator is a storage ring at the CERN laboratory near Geneva. It was built as a successor to the Low Energy Antiproton Ring…
The Interesting facts about the Runaway stars
In the early space age, it was realized that a coincidental alignment of the outer planets would occur in the late 1970s and enable a…
Meteorite - The solid pieces of debris
The first automatic partially reusable spacecraft was the Buran-class shuttle, launched by the USSR on November 15, 1988, although it made only one flight and…
How Space Rocks on Mars are named
Some predictions of general relativity differ significantly from those of classical physics, especially concerning the passage of time, the geometry of space, the motion of…