Missions expected to happen over the next decade, but that have not launched yet. In particular if such is only a concept at this time.
Questions tagged [future-missions]
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How are long space travel times motivated? (17 year Europa mission)
ESA:s mission to Europa will produce first data 17 years after it was decided. It will take 8 years from launch to arrive at Jupiter. Since technology advances rapidly, I wonder if it would not be much more efficient to put less money and time on…
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Does Copenhagen Suborbital have any plans for what they will do after they fly a human into space?
Copenhagen Suborbital is building a rocket that will launch a human on a suborbital flight into space. Do they have any plans for what they will do once they managed that?
I have come up with a few ideas:
Build more rockets to launch more people…
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Longer lasting missions
I realize the tremendous advances in the length of missions the last 20 years but I have a lay question so please don't beat me up. If an asteroid such as Oumuamua, billions of years old has the capability to still increase it's speed doesn't this…
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How many organisations are involved in missions that go further than the moon?
I'm trying to get an idea of how many missions are planning to go further than the moon?
I'd like to know which companies or organisations are doing, or planning to do this (e.g. missions to Mars or further). Of course NASA are doing these things…
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LEO or GEO or Lx for a space shipyard?
Given space mining and in situ production goes well, where would a space shipyard best located, LEO, GEO or one of L points and why?
Rough ideas regarding "specs" of the shipyard:
a space shipyard is a place in space to build interplanetary space…
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Similar planet to earth
Is there any planet outside solar system that has almost same characters that of earth? If not found till now,will it be possible ever to shift the whole human race to a new planet,because as Stephen Hawkins stated,in the years to come the world…
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