Archive for the 'Space' Category
SpaceX Boca Chica Drive-By
June 22nd, 2020This is quite a surreal scene. Tents, trailers, portapotties, solar panels, propellant tanks, pickup trucks, ground tracking equipment… Prototypes of parts of the largest rocket ever launched from Earth (Starship + Superheavy stack). Via: NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal: This drive past SpaceX’s Boca Chica facilities helps show how everything is laid out. Head down HWY 4 […]
Photos of SpaceX’s Starlink Prototype Ground Station Antennas
June 22nd, 2020Via: Reddit User darkpenguin22: Prototype Starlink terminals – Merrillan, WI More: SpaceX Starlink Antennas Spied at Starship Factory for First Time
SpaceX Hiring Staff to, “Design and Build an Operational Offshore Rocket Launch Facility” Sized for Starship and Super Heavy
June 19th, 2020Via: Teslarati: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that the company is going to build multiple massive “floating spaceports” to enable Starship launches to Mars and the Moon, as well as point-to-point travel around the Earth. First confirmed in job listings and later backed up by Musk himself, the goal of the nascent program is “to […]
As Many as Six Billion Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy
June 16th, 2020Via: PhysOrg: “My calculations place an upper limit of 0.18 Earth-like planets per G-type star,” says UBC researcher Michelle Kunimoto, co-author of the new study in The Astronomical Journal. “Estimating how common different kinds of planets are around different stars can provide important constraints on planet formation and evolution theories, and help optimize future missions […]
Starlink Will Cause Large Change in Seismic Oil and Gas Exploration
June 15th, 2020Oil companies use tape to store information collected from reflection seismology. A lot of tape. A lot of bulky, slow, expensive tape. Starlink will allow for the fast movement of terabytes of data from remote exploration vessels to cloud storage for analysis. Currently, the data moves by crates in helicopters and trucks. Via: BigMarker: For […]
FCC Has “Serious Doubts” that SpaceX Can Deliver Latencies Under 100ms
June 14th, 2020In the darkest days of my Internet connectivity hell in rural NZ, I had to use IPstar, which had latencies as high as 1000ms+. Yep. Not a typo. Over a second. How is SpaceX going to improve on that by a couple orders of magnitude? Operating the Starlink constellation in low earth orbit is part […]
Quantum ‘Fifth State of Matter’ Observed in Space for First Time
June 11th, 2020Via: AFP: Scientists have observed the fifth state of matter in space for the first time, offering unprecedented insight that could help solve some of the quantum universe’s most intractable conundrums, research showed Thursday. Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) — the existence of which was predicted by Albert Einstein and Indian mathematician Satyendra Nath Bose almost a […]
Starlink Releases Small Amount of Technical Information During Reddit Ask Me Anything
June 8th, 2020Via: GeekWire: SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation is still deep into testing mode, but it’s already generating 5 trillion bytes of data on a daily basis and getting software updates on a weekly basis. Those are a couple of the nuggets coming from a weekend Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session featuring SpaceX’s software team. The main […]
Mysterious Pattern Of ‘Cosmic Radio Bursts’ From A Distant Galaxy Repeats Every 157 Days, Say Scientists
June 8th, 2020Via: Forbes: Although several thousand FRBs are thought to be coming in from deep space every day, and from every direction, there are two that are particularly interesting—FRB 121102 and FRB 180916.J10158+56. These two keep repeating. … The astronomers think that the pattern they observed suggests that these powerful bursts are linked to: * the […]
President Donald Trump Makes Reference to “… Greatest Weapons Ever Imagined” in SpaceX Speech
June 1st, 2020Via: Black Vault:
