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Jun 11, 2019

Let’s take an interstellar journey into a Black Hole

Posted by in categories: cosmology, space travel, supercomputing

This video shows what you will see if you fall into a black hole. It is not an artistic impression, but a result of general- relativistic supercomputer simulation by prof. Andrew Hamilton.

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Jun 11, 2019

The Interstellar Ramjet Conundrum

Posted by in category: space travel

And a possible solution…

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Jun 10, 2019

West Virginia University Takes Top Prize in Moon to Mars Ice Challenge

Posted by in category: space travel

West virginia university takes top prize in NASA test of concepts to extract water on the moon and mars.

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Jun 10, 2019

People born today will witness the first off-planet permanent colony

Posted by in category: space travel

Pack your bags, we’re heading to Mars.

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Jun 10, 2019

KickSat: Our goal is to dramatically lower the cost of spaceflight, making it easy enough and affordable enough for anyone to explore space

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, solar power, space travel, sustainability

We can do this by shrinking the size and mass of the spacecraft, allowing many to be launched together.

Sprite

The Sprite is a tiny (3.5 by 3.5 centimeter) single-board spacecraft. It has a microcontroller, radio, and solar cells and is capable of carrying single-chip sensors, such as thermometers, magnetometers, gyroscopes, and accelerometers. To lower costs, Sprites are designed to be deployed hundreds at a time in low Earth orbit and to simultaneously communicate with a ground station receiver.

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Jun 10, 2019

What It’s Like Inside a Blue Origin Space Capsule

Posted by in category: space travel

Blue Origin says its New Shepard space capsule will be carrying humans soon.

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Jun 9, 2019

Atomic Rockets

Posted by in categories: military, space travel

Among science fiction stories with space flight, the overwhelming majority are about combat, both between spacecraft and between futuristic ground troops. Not to mention the occasional starship marine assault trying to board a hostile ship while in flight. Yes, there are a few non-combat stories, mostly about exploration, but space combat is here to stay.

This is just the natural continuation of the process of militarisation of space

Which naturally leads to questions about the space branch of the military of various nations. The “astro-military” in other words. Some may start out as a subdivision of an existing branch and eventually grow large enough to split off (such as how the US Army Air Corps spit off to become the US Air Force in 1947). Some may grow large enough to absorb other branches of the military, others may be reabsorbed into other branches. In William Keith’s Galactic Marines series one of the themes of the early novels is how the US Marines fight being absorbed or eliminated. Their solution is diversifying their mission to include performing assaults on Luna and Mars.

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Jun 9, 2019

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have profound visions for humanity’s future in space. Here’s how the billionaires’ goals compare

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants people to live on Mars, while Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos envisions 1 trillion of us working in giant space tubes.

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Jun 9, 2019

China rockets to forefront of global space race with sea launch success

Posted by in categories: engineering, space travel

The launch was expected to encounter many technical and engineering challenges, including simplified procedures for pre-launch testing, the rocking motion of the ship and heat dissipation in a confined space.


China has become the first nation to fully own and operate a floating launch platform for its space missions.

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Jun 9, 2019

How fast is Earth traveling through space?

Posted by in category: space travel

Tighten your seat belts.

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