Archive for the 'Space' Category
United Launch Alliance Factory Tour
March 2nd, 2020Via: Smarter Every Day:
Starlink: The Air Force And SpaceX Are Teaming Up For A ‘Massive’ Live Fire Exercise
February 27th, 2020Remember the one about better broadband Internet options for rural customers? haha Via: The Drive: As space continues to play an increasingly important role for the United States armed forces, the Department of Defense has been also increasingly engaging with the private aerospace and communications sector to develop and implement solutions that better help it […]
SpaceX Rocket Production Facility Approved by Port of Los Angeles
February 26th, 2020Via: Reuters: SpaceX, the private rocket company of high tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, won final approval on Tuesday to build a research and manufacturing plant for its deep-space Starship project on a tract of vacant land at the Port of Los Angeles.
Pentagon Preps Nuclear Moon Rocket
February 25th, 2020Via: Daily Beast: The U.S. government is working on an atomic rocket to send satellites into the vast space between Earth and the moon—before Beijing gets there with its own spacecraft.
How to Deflect an Asteroid
February 23rd, 2020Via: MIT News: Now MIT researchers have devised a framework for deciding which type of mission would be most successful in deflecting an incoming asteroid. Their decision method takes into account an asteroid’s mass and momentum, its proximity to a gravitational keyhole, and the amount of warning time that scientists have of an impending collision […]
3D Printing Is Changing the World
February 16th, 2020Bio-inspired metal object printing. Via: Vice:
“Inside the Pentagon’s Secret UFO Program”
February 15th, 2020This article is a big waste of time. It’s just more limited hangout nonsense intended to add to the confusion around the UFO issue. I’m posting it just to let people know: Thanks, I’ve seen it. Via: Popular Mechanics: The government can’t keep its story straight about its involvement with UFO research. After a yearlong […]
Astronomers Want Public Funds for Intelligent Life Search
February 15th, 2020Via: BBC: The head of one of the US’s national observatories says the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe needs to be taken more seriously. Dr Anthony Beasley told the BBC that there should be greater government support for a field that has been shunned by government research funders for decades. His backing […]
Using Ground Relays with Starlink
February 14th, 2020Via: Mark Handley:
Trump 2020 State of the Union Speech: “America’s Manifest Destiny in the Stars”
February 5th, 2020I listened to this State of the Union speech the same way I’ve listened to others; teetering between yawning inattention and eye-rolling. It’s difficult to turn off my internal monologue: “Oh for fuck’s sake, how do people put up with this?” “This is giving me a lobotomy.” “Is that witch Pelosi going to have a […]
