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Jul 28, 2021

Blue Origin has a secret project named “Jarvis” to compete with SpaceX

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How true?


However, after subsequent reporting, I discovered a kernel of truth to the rumors of stainless steel and Blue Origin rockets. Three sources have confirmed to Ars that Blue Origin has started working on a project to develop a fully reusable upper stage for New Glenn, which may potentially use stainless steel propellant tanks.

The primary goal of this change is to bring down the overall launch cost of the New Glenn rocket. The vehicle’s large upper stage, with a 7-meter diameter and two BE-3U engines, is costly, and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos is looking for ways to make the overall rocket more economical.

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Jul 27, 2021

Robots are making progress on space exploration, along with billionaires

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, solar power, space travel, sustainability

What i would suggest is landing Atlas robots in waves on the Moon, the first wave builds a solar panel farm for power, the second repairs the first wave, the third joins the first two to begin building large scale runways, the fourth joins the first three to begin building permanent structures.

The Moon is close enough for teleoperations, and in the 2030s, when we actually do Mars, the AI could repeat the whole thing there.

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Jul 27, 2021

Jeff Bezos offers NASA $2billion in exchange for moon contract

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JEFF Bezos has offered NASA $2 billion in exchange for a contract to allow astronauts to land on the moon.

The Amazon founder made his offer to administrator Bill Nelson in an open letter on Monday, a week after his own historic rocket launch.

Billionaire Bezos wrote: Blue Origin is committed to building a future where millions of people live and work in space to benefit the Earth.

Jul 27, 2021

Bezos’ $2bn offer to get back in race to the Moon

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The billionaire offers to cover $2bn in NASA costs to be reconsidered for a Moon lander contract.

Jul 25, 2021

NASA Awards SpaceX With Launch Services Contract for Europa Clipper Mission

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NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for Earth’s first mission to conduct detailed investigations of Jupiter’s moon Europa.

The Europa Clipper mission will launch in October 2024 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The total contract award amount for launch services is approximately $178 million.

Europa Clipper will conduct a detailed survey of Europa and use a sophisticated suite of science instruments to investigate whether the icy moon has conditions suitable for life. Key mission objectives are to produce high-resolution images of Europa’s surface, determine its composition, look for signs of recent or ongoing geological activity, measure the thickness of the moon’s icy shell, search for subsurface lakes, and determine the depth and salinity of Europa’s ocean.

Jul 24, 2021

Blue Origin New Glenn: specs, power, and launch date for ambitious rocket

Posted by in category: space travel

Blue Origin is set to launch the New Glenn rocket to orbit. Here’s what you need to know about it.

Jul 23, 2021

An autonomous system to assemble reconfigurable robotic structures in space

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

Large space structures, such as telescopes and spacecraft, should ideally be assembled directly in space, as they are difficult or impossible to launch from Earth as a single piece. In several cases, however, assembling these technologies manually in space is either highly expensive or unfeasible.

In recent years, roboticists have thus been trying to develop systems that could be used to automatically assemble structures in . To simplify this , space structures could have a modular design, which essentially means that they are comprised of different building blocks or modules that can be shifted to create different shapes or forms.

Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Technische Universität München (TUM) have recently developed an autonomous planner that could be used to assemble reconfigurable structures directly in space. This system, introduced in a paper presented at the 2021 IEEE Aerospace Conference, could allow aerospace engineers and astronauts to assemble large structures in space and adapt them for specific use cases, reconfiguring them when necessary.

Jul 22, 2021

#TransVision Future Summit 2021 — Promo 1 (English)

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, bitcoin, cryonics, geopolitics, lifeboat, nanotechnology, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity, space travel, transhumanism

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Jul 21, 2021

Breaking: “Touch Down.”

Posted by in category: space travel

Billionaire Richard Branson applauds as his Virgin Galactic spaceship lands back on Earth following historic commercial flight to edge of space. https://abcn.ws/3wyWsbo

Jul 21, 2021

Billionaire thrill-seeker aims for space travel

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Will Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson beat Jeff Bezos as the first billionaire in space?