Archive for the 'Space' Category
Astra: Space Launch Startup Emerges from Stealth Mode
February 3rd, 2020Via: Bloomberg: The company’s founders say they want to be the FedEx Corp. of space. They’re aiming to create small, cheap rockets that can be mass-produced to facilitate daily spaceflights, delivering satellites into low-Earth orbit for as little as $1 million per launch. … Kemp says that Rocket Lab’s going launch rate of about $7.5 […]
A Russian “Inspector” Spacecraft Now Appears To Be Shadowing An American Spy Satellite
January 31st, 2020Via: The Drive: Publicly available data suggests that a Russian inspector satellite has shifted its position in orbit to bring it relatively close to a U.S. KH-11 spy satellite. Russia has a number of what it calls “space apparatus inspectors” in orbit, which the U.S. government and others warn the Kremlin could use to gather […]
‘Pentagon Racks Up $35 Trillion In Accounting Changes In A Year’
January 22nd, 2020Rotten to the core and the source of most of the problems on this planet. In other news: Nearly 4 in 10 Americans would borrow money to cover a $1K emergency. Via: Bloomberg: The Pentagon made $35 trillion in accounting adjustments last year alone — a total that’s larger than the entire U.S. economy and […]
Tonight’s Successful Starlink Mission Makes SpaceX the World’s Largest Satellite Operator, Was First U.S. Space Force Launch
January 6th, 2020I’ve recently come to think that Starlink’s core functionality is closely tied to U.S. intelligence and war fighting capabilities. In case there was any doubt about this… With regard to tonight’s successful Starlink launch, SpaceX not only became the world’s largest satellite operator, but the launch was the first to happen under the auspices of […]
China Launches Powerful Rocket in Boost for 2020 Mars Mission
December 27th, 2019Via: AFP: China Friday launched one of the world’s most powerful rockets in a major step forward for its planned mission to Mars in 2020. The heavy lift Long March 5 rocket carrying a test satellite payload blasted off from the Wenchang launch site on the southern island of Hainan at 8:45 pm (1245 GMT), […]
Giant Surveillance Balloons Are Lurking at the Edge of Space
December 22nd, 2019Via: Ars Technica: It’s a brisk December morning at Spaceport Tucson, America’s premiere (only?) dedicated launch pad for stratospheric balloons, and a small army of technicians in reflective vests is milling around on the concrete and thawing out after a long, cold night. Nearby, a white metal tripod the size of a smart car is […]
Boeing’s Starliner Enters Wrong Orbit, Won’t Dock with ISS
December 20th, 2019Via: Daily Mail: Boeing’s new Starliner capsule won’t dock with the International Space Station on Saturday after launching into the wrong orbit just minutes after blasting off on its first test flight. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said it burned more fuel than anticipated to maintain control which ‘precluded a space station rendezvous’. The Starliner capsule […]
Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites to Beam Data to Devices
December 20th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Apple Inc. has a secret team working on satellites and related wireless technology, striving to find new ways to beam data such as internet connectivity directly to its devices, according to people familiar with the work. The Cupertino, California-based iPhone maker has about a dozen engineers from the aerospace, satellite and antenna design […]
Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology
December 16th, 2019Update: Is Starlink Going to Drop The American Culture Bomb on China? If you’re like me, you’ve been wondering: What is Starlink’s actual purpose? I didn’t entirely believe the prosaic narrative about better rural broadband Internet and a funding source for Elon Musk’s Mars aspirations, etc. Well, it might be about those things at some […]
Pentagon Says, “Neither AATIP Nor AAWSAP Were UAP Related”
December 7th, 2019You spin me right ’round, baby Right ’round like a record, baby Right ’round, ’round, ’round Via: The Black Vault: Claiming they want to correct the record and clear up some inaccuracies, the Pentagon now says AATIP was not a UFO or UAP program. “Neither AATIP nor AAWSAP were UAP related,” said Pentagon spokesperson Susan […]
