Advanced Concepts

low mass inflatable habitats on Moon, Mars, asteroids etc.

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Moving The Cloud to orbit

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Maglev on the moon

Started by PhotonBytes

Longshot multistage gun launch

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Crewed Europan submarine

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'Leg Wheels' for Surface Exploration

Started by sanman

HTP/PLA/KMnO4 Hybrid Rocket Engine

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Hermeus hypersonic plane

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How Can AI Be Used for Space Applications?

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Lunar ISRU Production of CH4 and LOX for propellent

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Mega-scale civil engineering on Mars

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Humanoid Robots for Moon and Mars

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How much Helium 3 is in the Solar wind?

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Personal Radiation Protection For Deep Space Travel?

Started by drbuzz0

Advanced Water Heating Design for Lunar, Martian and other Space Based uses.

Started by DrysonB

Giving Starship its own little shuttlecraft

Started by Gateway Station

Martian Greenhouses

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Realistic, near-term, rotating Space Station

Started by Roy_H « 1 2 3 ... 253 Next »

DRACO: NASA and DARPA nuclear propulsion collaboration

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Crewed missions to Titan using Starship - how feasible is it?

Started by Gateway Station

Venus orbiting space station?

Started by Gateway Station

Turning Gateway into a Mars Transit Habitat?

Started by Gateway Station

Can AI-Data-Centers-in-Space Lead Us Toward Sunshade to Terraform Venus?

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Nuclear Thermal Propulsion

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Rolls-Royce space micro-reactor

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Autophage Engines: Toward a Throttleable Solid Motor

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Feasibility of fusion based launch

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Advancements in Electric Thrusters

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Protecting against radiation at Europa's surface

Started by Vultur

Leap 71 (AI Computational Engineering in Space Propulsion)

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Robot cultivated crops for Mars pioneers

Started by seshagirib

Compact nuclear power sources for space exploration

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General Hypersonic Flight Related Topics

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Space elevator

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Fusion with space related aspects thread

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Origami-based Structrue Vehicle. Flat Payloads / Colonies unfolding like Origami

Started by JulesVerneATV

Hall effect thruster power limits pushed

Started by edzieba

Wheeled & Non-Wheeled Legged Robots and Ground Vehicles

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Method for storing antimatter

Started by scienceguy

The impossible Newtonian propulsion system in "Avatar" movie

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Northrop Grumman tests fast-developed SMART motor

Started by catdlr

Externally fueled fusion propulsion using a pre-deployed deuterium beam

Started by gustavohigon

How Can We Have NTR SSTO?

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Size of comet that could be steered to useful orbit

Started by crandles57

A colonizing effort for TITAN

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Solar Power Satellites

Started by Greg Hullender « 1 2 3 ... 29 Next »

Modular Lunar Architecture: Reusable Orbital Tug + Deployable Landing Platform

Started by MS

Solar Cartography

Started by NUAETIUS

Electromagnetic railgun as launcher

Started by Carreidas 160