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…
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…
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…
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…
Precoolers were proposed as part of the research in America on Project Suntan – a liquid hydrogen fuelled aircraft. Robert P. Carmichael in 1955 devised…
The Hubble classification system rates elliptical galaxies on the basis of their ellipticity, ranging from E0, being nearly spherical, up to E7, which is highly…
Variation of nuclear pulse propulsion based upon the injection of antimatter into a mass of nuclear fuel which normally would not be useful in propulsion….
A runaway star is one that is moving through space with an abnormally high velocity relative to the surrounding interstellar medium. The proper motion of…
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable human spaceflight vehicle capable of reaching low Earth orbit, commissioned and operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and…