NOTABLE TI | April 09, 2020
A DSIAC subject matter expert from the Johns Hopkins University Energetics Research Group provided points of contact from NASA Glenn Research Center and Los Alamos...
Energetics / RMQSIARTICLES | November 05, 2019
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab is shooting for the moon, literally. The small-satellite launch startup announced today (October 21) that its new Photon satellite platform will be able to fly small...
EnergeticsARTICLES | October 22, 2019
An engineer who works for NASA has put forward a proposal for a new way to travel through interstellar space—a “helical engine” that could, potentially,...
EnergeticsARTICLES | August 27, 2019
What happens if a spacecraft encounters problems in the vacuum of space? While space travel can be very dangerous, there are plenty of fail-safes. NASA,...
EnergeticsARTICLES | July 29, 2019
Nuclear energy has played a key supporting role in historic missions to Mars, Pluto, and across the Solar System for the last 50 years. On...
EnergeticsARTICLES | July 16, 2019
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS) — The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) successfully put new technologies into space, June 25, as part of...
EnergeticsARTICLES | June 18, 2019
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will test a non-toxic, rosé-coloured fuel and compatible propulsion system in space that could be used for missions...
EnergeticsARTICLES | June 12, 2019
One year from now, Arianespace is expected to be halfway between the first flights of two new launchers, the clean-sheet-design Ariane 6 and the upgraded...
EnergeticsNOTABLE TI | May 01, 2019
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a need for high-rate discharge batteries and electric motors that can drive an electric pump to power...
Advanced Materials / EnergeticsARTICLES | March 11, 2019
At 2:49 a.m. EST on March 2, SpaceX launched Crew Dragon’s first demonstration mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...
EnergeticsARTICLES | January 28, 2019
By using steam rather than fuel, the microwave-size spacecraft prototype can theoretically explore celestial objects “forever.” Using steam to propel a spacecraft from asteroid to...
EnergeticsARTICLES | September 24, 2018
NASA and the US Department of Energy have developed a new nuclear fission reactor design for space applications, the Kilopower. NASA successfully conducted testing and demonstration...
EnergeticsARTICLES | August 27, 2018
An array of new agile launch capabilities being developed by the commercial sector to send satellites into orbit could provide added resiliency to the U.S....
EnergeticsARTICLES | March 12, 2018
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s initiative to help lessen the service’s reliance on Russia’s RD-180 rocket engine has passed a major milestone, according to service...
EnergeticsARTICLES | March 08, 2018
The NASA Langley Research Center and Marshall Space Flight Center have released a Request for Information (RFI) related to their Low Earth Orbit Flight Test –...
Energetics / RMQSIARTICLES | February 26, 2018
SpaceX’s Oct. 30 launch of the Koreasat-5A telecommunications satellite doubled the number of Falcon 9 missions completed in a single year and tied the company...
EnergeticsNOTABLE TI | February 08, 2018
DSIAC staff conducted research on the energetic materials supply chain and provided links to a Government Accounting Office (GAO) Report that specifically looked at what...
Energetics / RMQSI / Weapons SystemsARTICLES | February 01, 2018
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a way to use 3-D printers to create objects capable of expanding dramatically...
RMQSIARTICLES | January 15, 2018
Aerospace startup Rocket Lab says it knows why the first test launch of its small rocket failed to reach orbit in May. The failure had...
RMQSIARTICLES | December 18, 2017
The flight preparations for the four engines that will power NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) on its first integrated flight with Orion are complete and...
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