Archive for the 'Space' Category
Starship SN5 150m Hop
August 5th, 2020One for your: You Don’t See That Everyday file folder. Via: SpaceX:
Crew Demo-2 Splashdown
August 2nd, 2020Via: SpaceX:
Amazon to Invest $10 Billion in Space-Based Internet System
July 31st, 2020No timetable. Via: AFP: Amazon says it will invest $10 billion for its planned space-based internet delivery system after winning US regulatory approval to deploy more than 3,000 low-orbit satellites. The US tech giant said on Thursday it is moving forward with its Project Kuiper, one of several systems planned to bring internet to customers […]
How to Fake an Alien Invasion
July 28th, 2020From 2015. Via: Corbett Report:
U.S. Says Russia Has Tested a Space-Based Anti-Satellite Weapon
July 23rd, 2020Via: Space.com: The U.S. Space Command announced Thursday (July 23) that it has evidence that Russia has tested a space-based anti-satellite weapon. On July 15, Russia “injected a new object into orbit” orbit from the Cosmos 2543 satellite and “conducted a non-destructive test of a space-based anti-satellite weapon,” the U.S. Space Command (USSC) said an […]
FCC Approves SpaceX’s Starlink Router
July 15th, 2020Interestingly, we learn that the antenna is motorized and can self-orient: The network will be easy to set-up at home – “Starlink terminal has motors to self-orient for optimal view angle. No expert installer required. Just plug in & give it a clear view of the sky,” Musk said, “Can be in garden, on roof, […]
4 Mysterious Objects Spotted in Deep Space Are Unlike Anything Ever Seen
July 12th, 2020Via: LiveScience: There’s something unusual lurking out in the depths of space: Astronomers have discovered four faint objects that at radio wavelengths are highly circular and brighter along their edges. And they’re unlike any class of astronomical object ever seen before. The objects, which look like distant ring-shaped islands, have been dubbed odd radio circles, […]
Signal from 500 Million Light Years Away Is First Periodic Pattern of Radio Bursts Detected
June 28th, 2020Via: MIT News: A team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light years away. … This new FRB source, which the team has catalogued as FRB 180916.J0158+65, is the first to produce a […]
‘Black Neutron Star’ Discovery: How Neutron Stars and Black Holes Form Will Need to be Rethought
June 27th, 2020Via: BBC: Scientists have discovered an astronomical object that has never been observed before. It is more massive than collapsed stars, known as “neutron stars”, but has less mass than black holes. Such “black neutron stars” were not thought possible and will mean ideas for how neutron stars and black holes form will need to […]
DARPA Wants Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
June 22nd, 2020Via: Ars Technica: There are many ways to get around space, but most of them are pretty slow. This is why, even when launching at an optimal time, a spacecraft leaving Earth requires about six months to reach orbit around Mars. For decades, many rocket scientists have looked to a propulsion system powered by a […]
