Archive for the 'Space' Category
SpaceX Wins $2.9 Billion NASA Moon Lander Contract
April 17th, 2021Via: Reuters: NASA awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon as early as 2024, the agency said on Friday, picking it over Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics Inc.
Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station
March 16th, 2021Via: ScienceAlert: Researchers from the United States and India working with NASA have now discovered four strains of bacteria living in different places in the ISS – three of which were, until now, completely unknown to science. … All four of the strains belong to a family of bacteria found in soil and freshwater; they […]
China, Russia Announce Plan To Build Moon Research Station
March 10th, 2021Via: NPR: China and Russia have announced plans to work together to construct a lunar research station, an ambitious first-ever such space project between the two countries. Russia’s Roscosmos and China’s National Space Administration – the two countries’ respective equivalents of NASA – announced a preliminary agreement on Tuesday to jointly develop the research facility, […]
SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands Starship Prototype… Then It Exploded
March 4th, 2021Via: Space Flight Now: The latest prototype of SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle — Starship SN10 — took off from the company’s South Texas test site and flew to an altitude of more than 30,000 feet Wednesday, then descended to a controlled vertical landing after two previous test vehicles crashed at touchdown. Minutes later, the 16-story […]
“It Would Be A Great Honor To Speak To You”: Musk Seeks To Speak To Putin
February 14th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: In the latest surprising development from the world’s richest man, moments ago Elon Musk tweeted the official English twitter account of the Kremlin, i.e., Vladimir Putin, saying “would you like join me for a conversation” on the popular (and so far invite-only) new audio social network Clubhouse.
DoD Responds to Researcher’s FOIA Request on UFO Debris
February 13th, 2021Via: Anthony Bragalia – UFO Explorations: A stunning admission by the US government that it possesses UFO debris was recently made in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed over three years ago by this author. In a reply letter, the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has ended decades of speculation by […]
China’s Space Probe Sends Back First Image of Mars
February 7th, 2021Via: AFP: China’s Tianwen-1 probe has sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said, as the mission prepares to touch down on the Red Planet later this year. The spacecraft, launched in July around the same time as a rival US mission, is expected to enter Mars orbit around February 10. […]
SpaceX Acquires Former Oil Rigs to Serve as Floating Starship Spaceports
January 20th, 2021Via: NASA Space Flight: SpaceX has acquired two former oil drilling rigs to serve as these floating spaceports. Named Phobos and Deimos, after the two moons of Mars, they are currently undergoing modifications to support Starship launch operations. SpaceX has long been hinting at future floating launch and landing sites for their Starship launch system. […]
The Tiny Satellites That Will Connect Cows, Cars and Shipping Containers to the Internet
January 10th, 2021“Enabling a new kind of everywhere…” Via: Wall Street Journal: In the shadow of giants like SpaceX, more than a dozen startups are building their own globe-spanning networks of nanosatellites, enabling a new kind of everywhere, all-the-time connectivity for people, animals and assets on Earth. … In the near future, it isn’t unreasonable to imagine […]
Emails Show Navy’s ‘UFO’ Patents Went Through Significant Internal Review, Resulted In A Demo
December 20th, 2020Via: The Warzone: The War Zone continues to dig into the bizarre U.S. Navy patents authored by enigmatic inventor Dr. Salvatore Pais and the seemingly unusual circumstances of their approval by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As part of our investigation, we recently obtained a tranche of internal emails from Naval Air Systems […]
