solar-powered spacecraft Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 08:48:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Solar Powered Travel Record Broken by NASA https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-solar-powered-spacecraft-record/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-solar-powered-spacecraft-record/#respond Sat, 16 Jan 2016 08:48:02 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=58714 A NASA spacecraft has set a new record for longest distance traveled when using solar power. Juno, the first solar powered spacecraft, was launched in 2011. On Wednesday, it was around 493 million miles away from the sun. Juno was specifically designed to be able to operate at such a far distance away, with a […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-solar-powered-spacecraft-record/feed/ 0 58714 SpaceX Dragon: The First Spacecraft Using Solar Panels (Video) https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spacex-dragon-solar-panels-20120109/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spacex-dragon-solar-panels-20120109/#respond Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:21:36 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=21881 I wonder what it feels like to know that you’ve contributed to space expeditions and, indirectly, to the future of mankind? Very proud, I assume, as must feel the engineers from SpaceX, a private space transport company led by Elon Musk, also Tesla Motors’ CEO. During its first mission to the International Space Station, the […]

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