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Jun 10, 2019
West Virginia University Takes Top Prize in Moon to Mars Ice Challenge
Posted by Klaus Baldauf 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 Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
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 Richard Christophr Saragoza 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.
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.
Jun 10, 2019
What It’s Like Inside a Blue Origin Space Capsule
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: 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.
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 Genevieve Klien 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.
Jun 9, 2019
China rockets to forefront of global space race with sea launch success
Posted by Derick Lee 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.