NASA Patents Fast, Cheap Moon Route
New Robotic Spacecraft Source: NASA - Moon's "Cone of Silence" in Purple Big Scientific Missions NASA has just patented a cheaper and faster new trajectory for sending smaller, robotic spacecraft to the Moon. And, NASA has a new spacecraft that it's developing called the "Dark Ages Polarimeter Pathfinder" or Dapper that's the size of a microwave. Using the new patented route, Dapper will make the journey to the Moon, go into orbit and repeatedly fly through the "cone of silence", a lunar spot that is totally radio-silent on the far side of the moon. Dapper is designed to detect the faintest signals from the first stars, galaxies and black holes. Experts say discoveries from the new NASA technology, particularly in the "Cone of Silence" could be Nobel Prize winning. Patented Moon Trajectory NASA has specifically patented the trajectory and route to the Moon that it invented. Going to the Moon has been tremendously expensive. NA...
