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Pioneer Astronautics among first to be awarded follow-on funds in support of the Artemis program
Image Credit : NASA NASA’s Artemis program is a US government-funded crewed spaceflight program that has the goal of landing “the first woman and the next man” on the Moon, specifically at the lunar south pole region by 2024, preparing the way for human missions to Mars. Pioneer Astronautics has been selected by NASA as […]
NASA 2020 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I Selections
Pioneer Astronautics received the following contract(s) from NASA for: Magnetic Phase Separator, Gas Replacement System (GRS), and Magsails for Spacecraft Deorbit
Publication | International Journal of Astrobiology | Exchange of material between solar systems by random stellar encounters
Robert Zubrin | Pioneer Astronautics, 11111 W. 8th Ave. unit A, Lakewood, CO 80215, USA
Abstract Excerpt
“It is shown that a mechanism involving only random motion of the sun with respect to the surrounding star field can account for the ∼1 per 25 Myr characteristic frequency of large cometary impacts on Earth. In the proposed mechanism, the sun travels through the Oort Cloud of an encounter star, most typically a Type M dwarf, while the dwarf flies through the Oort cloud of our Sun. As a result, Oort Cloud objects from our Solar System are precipitated in large numbers to impact planets in the dwarf star system, while the dwarf’s Oort Cloud objects are destabilized to impact planets in our Solar System.”
NASA 2019 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I Selections
Pioneer Astronautics received the following contract(s) from NASA for: Lunar Flow Battery and Lunar Exploration Gas Spectrometer.
NASA 2018 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II Selections
Pioneer Astronautics received the following contract(s) from NASA for: Advanced Organic Waste Gasifier and Liquid Sorption Pump.
The Space Review | Engineering Mars commercial rocket propellant production for the Big Falcon Rocket (part 2)
Engineering Mars commercial rocket propellant production for the Big Falcon Rocket (part 2)
by Steve Hoeser
“The RWGS itself would consist of a simple compatible metal pipe, like steel, filled with a catalyst. According to experiments done by Pioneer Astronautics in Lakewood, Colorado, the best catalyst for this reaction is silica (consisting of five percent copper by weight) and a smaller amount of nickel.”
NASA 2017 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I Selections
Pioneer Astronautics received the following contract(s) from NASA for Advanced Mars Water Acquisition System.
NASA 2016 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II Selections
Pioneer Astronautics received the following contract(s) from NASA for: Extraterrestrial Metals Processing.
NASA 2016 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I Selections
Pioneer Astronautics received the following contract(s) from NASA for: Extraterrestrial Metals Processing.
Pioneer Astronautics
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Recent posts
- Gas Replacement System (GRS) Successful Flight
- Pioneer Astronautics among first to be awarded follow-on funds in support of the Artemis program
- NASA 2020 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I Selections
- Publication | International Journal of Astrobiology | Exchange of material between solar systems by random stellar encounters
- NASA 2019 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I Selections