A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars ...
See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...
NASA is backing a radically different way to reach space, one that swaps towering rockets for a ground-based launcher that whips payloads to orbital speeds before they ever see a drop of fuel. The ...