Space Aerospace Propulsion

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• - (part of Marshall Space Flight Center). Gives details on current research projects.
  
• - Solar Sail with hybrid propulsion, using light pressure and ion thruster to produce thrust. Spacecraft Building System to build large, light weight space structures in a fast and simple way.
  
• - Aims to develop systems to transport small civilian payloads into a low-earth orbit (LEO).
  
• - News on advanced propulsion technologies for space travel from universtites, organisations and companies.
  
• - Illustrated narrative shows a number of advanced space concepts.
  
• - Attempts to list all known space propulsion methods.
  
• - The Planetary Society is developing and conducting a privately funded solar sail project with Cosmos Studios. The spacecraft will be developed, launched and operated in Russia.
  
• - A proposed space transportation system which consists of two parts: rotocrane moving in an atmosphere only, and sunflower moving in a space plasma. Description of the theory and state of development.
  
• - Looks at the many types of launch vehicles and propulsion technologies that are in service or proposed.
  
• - A look at the various propulsion technologies that could be used to provide cheap transport into orbit.
  
• - Explains the different propulsion systems that could be used to send humans to Mars.