With Project Daedalus, the Pentagon's R&D wing is interested in satellites that can orbit in a much lower place than others. Here's why.

"Project Daedalus" — Ep#209 — Pictured: Sonequa Martin-Green as Burnham of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. Photo Cr: Michael Gibson/CBS ©2018 CBS Interactive, Inc.

Project Icarus takes its inspiration from Project Daedalus, a five-year study launched by the British Interplanetary Society in 1973 to determine whether interstellar travel was feasible at all.

“Project Daedalus” finally reveals Airiam’s backstory. Once, she was a newlywed. She and her husband were about to leave Earth for a vacation, but their ship malfunctioned on take off.

The project was named Daedalus, after the craftsman from Greek mythology that made wings capable of supporting human flight. The project's driving idea was to make something that could reach a ...

A monkey got their slot in the program, and Project Daedalus was summarily dismantled. Decades later, the members of Team Daedalus (Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, ...