deep space probes

I've added a new article on Philip Bono's work on the Encyclopedia Astronautica at: http://www.astronautix.com/b/bono.html You may notice I've reorganized and reformatted the site, and am now (after some time) begun adding new and updated content. So please visit regularly to see what is new -...

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/stephen-hawking-billionaire-team-100-million-quest-find/story?id=38331436 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/science/alpha-centauri-breakthrough-starshot-yuri-milner-stephen-hawking.html...

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20150014581 http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160405-the-space-submarine-hunting-the-solar-system-for-aliens

http://gizmodo.com/all-hail-juno-our-record-breaking-solar-powered-emmiss-1752844953

At long last I would say in relation to this news. http://spacenews.com/nasa-to-study-uranus-neptune-missions/

A design by North American/Rockwell for the same contract as the TRW 'Solar Electric Multi Mission Spacecraft'. Unlike that vehicle, which was intended for use for a variety of missions, this spacecraft was optimised for untargeted asteroid belt exploration, though with it's particle and fields...

Proposed design for a Multi-Mission bus using ion engines for propulsion. Suggested missions included an untargeted asteroid belt flyby, a targeted asteroid belt flyby, a Jupiter flyby (With or without use of gravity assist to reach an out-of-ecliptic orbit following the flyby.) and a...

The Dawn spacecraft continues to orbit the asteroid Ceres after a successful mapping mission to the asteroid Vesta. These two asteroids are the largest ones in the asteroid belt. There is a mysterious array of bright spots on Ceres (see image) which have yet to be explained. Anyone have a clue...

On July 14th the New Horizons spacecraft will flyby Pluto to give us our first good look at this far off world. For more information go to New Horizons.com -SP

One of the more interesting results of the various NASA space engineering projects. Designed by a team from the University of Auburn, this Saturn V launched probe, which would have been launched sometime between 1975 -1980 had it been built. Upon arrival at Jupiter (After an 800-900 day trip...

1971 design for a Jupiter Entry Probe designed to sample the atmosphere of Jupiter down to a level equivalent to 17 times the atmospheric pressure of Earth. The proposed carrier vehicles were, TOPS, which would had the medium gain antenna from the baseline design replaced with one that could...

I've seen references to Jupiter drop probes dating back to the mid 1960's, but this upper atmosphere probe dating from the early 1970's is the earliest detailed design I know of, to quote the abstract: 1. The Jovian turbopause probe. Part 1 - The scientific requirements for the Jovian...

Marsokhod was soviet design for Rover on Mars, by VNII Transmash, View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IfpwkQ2598 Here is a early documentation about the program. (Russia audio only) View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxewoGbsvao 1990 documentation on Lunokhod and Marsokhod program...

http://www.space.com/20313-voyager-1-leaves-solar-system.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9944080/Voyager-1-becomes-first-man-made-object-to-leave-the-Solar-System.html Voyager I passing the rings of Saturn (Daily Telegraph)

Via Slashdot: http://news.discovery.com/space/nasa-plutonium-production-space-fuel-130314.htm

Found this here. http://falsesteps.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/manned-venus-flyby/

Artist's impression of unmanned Martian reconnaissance vehicle concept press photo found on eBay. Source: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1958-Boeing-Minute-Man-Missile-Martian-Reconnaissance-vehicle-Press-Photo-/190706754178?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item2c67022282

Preliminary Mission Study of a Single-Launch Manned Venus Flyby with Extended Apollo Hardware, MSC Internal Note No. 67-FM-25, Jack Funk and James J. Taylor, Advanced Mission Design Branch, Mission Planning and Analysis Division, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, February 13, 1967...

In this months Spaceflight, there is an article on Starships of the Future (mostly Daedalus and Icarus) that mentions a suggestion by G H Stein published in Analog, October 1973 called "A Program for Star Flight". 'A full program of exploration was proposed which would utilise a fleet of no...

USAF interplanetary spacecraft concept model using Space Power Unit Reactor (SPUR) found on EBay. http://cgi.ebay.com/Spacecraft-Concept-Contractor-Desk-Model-NASA-USAF_W0QQitemZ110459822900QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b7eb2334 Description from EBay: