Tag: Xplore
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Space investor Dylan Taylor reserves a spot for payload on Xplore’s first space mission
An artist’s conception shows Xplore’s Xcraft probe near the moon. (Xplore Illustration) Seattle-based Xplore says space investor and philanthropist Dylan Taylor plans to reserve payload space on its first mission beyond Earth orbit, on behalf of a nonprofit group he founded. Taylor, the chairman and CEO of Colorado-based Voyager Space Holdings, said in a news…
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Far out! Xplore teams up with JPL and Aerospace Corp. on gravity-lens telescope
An artist’s conception shows Xplore’s advanced solar sail for NASA’s Solar Gravity Lens Focus mission. (Visualization by Bryan Versteeg, SpaceHabs.com / via Xplore) NASA has awarded a $2 million grant to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The Aerospace Corp. — and Xplore, a Seattle-based space venture — to develop the design architecture for a far-out telescope…
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Xplore wins award from Air Force to study navigational tools for moon missions
An artisti’s conception shows Xplore’s Xcraft with the moon in the background. (Xplore Illustration) Seattle-based Xplore has won a $50,000 award from the Air Force to develop an architecture for keeping track of missions between Earth and the moon. The three-month study is being funded through the Air Force’s AFWERX technology innovation program, a partnership…
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Xplore’s Xcraft space probe lands in Xtronaut 2.0 board game — and STEM students are the winners
Xplore’s Xcraft space probe is featured on the Xtronaut 2.0 card at far right. (Xplore / Xtronaut Illustration) Seattle-based Xplore isn’t due to launch its first Xcraft space probe until late 2021, but it’s already landed in an educational board game. Xtronaut 2.0, a multiplayer game devised by planetary scientist Dante Lauretta and Xtronaut Enterprises…
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Xplore forges partnerships for spacecraft propulsion system and in-space refueling
An artist’s conception shows Xplore’s Xcraft spacecraft at the moon. (Xplore / Orbion Illustration) Seattle-based Xplore has selected two new technologies for propelling and refueling its Xcraft spacecraft as it makes its way to the moon and beyond. Xplore is designing Xcraft to serve as a “space as a service” platform for payloads heading beyond…
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Xplore partners with Nanoracks to set up opportunities for deep-space missions
An artist’s conception shows Xplore’s Xcraft probe making its way to the moon. (Xplore Illustration) Seattle-based Xplore says it’s joining forces with Houston-based Nanoracks to create low-cost rideshare opportunities for payloads heading for the moon, Mars and other destinations beyond Earth orbit. The partnership takes advantage of the commercial approach to deep-space exploration that’s being…
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Xplore and Arch Mission plan to send humanity’s archives to moon and beyond
An artist’s conception shows Xcraft, the spacecraft being developed by Xplore for interplanetary missions. (Xplore Illustration) Seattle-based Xplore and the Arch Mission Foundation are teaming up on what sounds like “Mission: Impossible”: a plan to send the foundation’s Arch Libraries on space odysseys to the moon, Mars, Venus and near-Earth asteroids starting in 2021. The…