Monday, March 5, 2012

News: NASA and Northrop Grumman plan to develop 'space tugboat'

The Engineer has an article mentioning: "... to 300kW and beyond and has the potential for reducing the cost and complexity of high-power requirements.' The availability of a solar-powered vehicle would make it possible to launch spacecraft to LEO then ferry them to GEO, allowing much heavier payloads to reach GEO while still using existing ..."

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