Archive for the 'Space' Category
Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to Fly Around Moon on SpaceX BFR
September 17th, 2018Via: The Verge: This evening, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire and founder of Zozotown, Japan’s largest online clothing retailer, will be the first private customer to ride around the Moon on the company’s future massive rocket, the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR). Maezawa plans to fly on the trip as […]
SpaceX Announcing Name of Private Individual Who Will Orbit Moon in BFR
September 13th, 2018Via: Ars Technica: On Thursday evening, without any advance notice, SpaceX tweeted that is had signed the world’s “first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle.” Moreover, the company promised to reveal “who’s flying and why” on Monday, September 17. The announcement will take place at the company’s headquarters in […]
The One About a Russian Satellite “Raising Alarm” with U.S.
August 16th, 2018Just a few stories for context about this Russian satellite situation: Mystery Russian Satellite’s Behaviour Raises Alarm in U.S.: A mysterious Russian satellite displaying “very abnormal behaviour” has raised alarm in the US, according to a State Department official. “We don’t know for certain what it is and there is no way to verify it,” […]
NASA Names Astronauts for First Manned U.S. Space Launches Since 2011
August 3rd, 2018Via: Reuters: NASA on Friday named nine astronauts for the first manned space launches from U.S. soil since the space shuttle program ended in 2011. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s announcement signals a milestone in the U.S. space program, with its shift to the private sector for ferrying cargo and astronauts to the International […]
The World’s Only Homemade Spacesuit Is About To Get Its First Life-or-Death Test
July 29th, 2018Via: Medium: Cameron Smith has never been to space, but this autumn he’ll get close. In a few months, Smith and the small team of volunteers that comprise Pacific Spaceflight will travel to an undisclosed location on the West Coast where Smith will don a homemade spacesuit and attempt to pilot a hot air balloon […]
Liquid Water ‘Lake’ Revealed on Mars
July 25th, 2018Via: BBC: Researchers have found evidence of an existing body of liquid water on Mars. What they believe to be a lake sits under the planet’s south polar ice cap, and is about 20km (12 miles) across. Previous research found possible signs of intermittent liquid water flowing on the martian surface, but this is the […]
Pentagon Sees Quantum Computing as Key Weapon for War in Space
July 19th, 2018Disclosure: I am long Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL). — I had not heard of quantum technologies being applied to inertial navigation systems before. Check out this 2014 piece from New Scientist: IN 2016 a British submarine will slip its moorings and set sail under the guidance of the quantum world. The navigation system it will […]
Hear Stanley Kubrick Explain The 2001: A Space Odyssey Ending In A Rare, Unearthed Video
July 11th, 2018Via: Esquire: I’ve tried to avoid doing this ever since the picture came out. When you just say the ideas they sound foolish, whereas if they’re dramatized one feels it, but I’ll try. The idea was supposed to be that he is taken in by god-like entities, creatures of pure energy and intelligence with no […]
Engine Tests Underway for DARPA ‘Phantom Express’ Spaceplane Program
July 9th, 2018Via: Space News: A space shuttle-era main engine is undergoing a series of daily test firings to demonstrate its suitability for use on a reusable spaceplane under development. The Aerojet Rocketdyne AR-22 engine is in the midst of a series of 10 100-second engine firings over the course of 10 days at NASA’s Stennis Space […]
Pentagon Intelligence Chief: Russia And China Will Have Weapons in Space ‘In the Near Future’
June 28th, 2018Just wait. You haven’t seen anything yet. Via: DefenseOne: The Defense Intelligence Agency’s director says the U.S. lead in space is diminishing and tomorrow’s skies will be filled with enemy robot satellites. Russia and China are developing new space-based weapons and they’ll be ready “in the near future,” Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, the head of […]
