Russian state-owned Energia rocket company has secured a patent for a novel spacecraft architecture designed to generate artificial gravity, a capability which could provide a huge boost for ...

Engineers at Russia’s Energia Space Rocket Corporation, part of the state-run space agency Roscosmos, have proposed a new answer. According to a patent obtained by the Russian news agency TASS, the ...

HOUSTON – The International Space Station is in line for an artificial gravity inducing centrifuge for future research projects involving small biological and materials samples later this year, ...

Visuals released alongside the patent show a spacecraft that looks less like the familiar stick-like International Space Station and more like a wheel in the making, with a solid core and radial arms ...