Archive for the 'Space' Category
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 […]
NATO Intends to Make Space an ‘Operational Domain’
November 20th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization plans to widen its remit to include outer space as the alliance anticipates new security threats. NATO intends to make space an “operational domain” along with air, land, sea and cyber, according to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The move, to be approved at a meeting of NATO foreign […]
Astronomers Despair As SpaceX Starlink Train Ruins Observation Of Nearby Galaxies
November 19th, 2019That’s just the first 120 Starlink satellites out of tens of thousands that will go up in next few years. Via: Fortune: In the early hours of the morning today, Monday, November 18, two astronomers checked in on their remotely operated telescope in Chile, expecting to see images of distant stars and galaxies. Instead, they […]
NASA Report Finds Boeing Seat Prices Are 60% Higher Than SpaceX
November 15th, 2019Via: Ars Technica: On Thursday, NASA’s inspector general released a report on the space agency’s commercial crew program, which seeks to pay Boeing and SpaceX to develop vehicles to transport astronauts to the International Space Station. Although the report cites the usual technical issues that the companies are having with the development of their respective […]
China To Establish $10 Trillion Economic Zone In Space [???]
November 4th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: According to the Global Times, China plans to establish an Earth-moon space economic zone by 2050, which is expected to generate $10 trillion worth of services per year. The zone will cover areas of space near Earth, the moon and in between. … In other words, while the US contemplates a Green New […]
