Reviewing Space developments in 2016 and the next big future in space
• nextbigfuture.comThis is one of the Nextbigfuture article series reviewing developments in 2016 and looking ahead to developments over the next few years.
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Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX's Elon Musk announces vision for colonizing Mars
• https://spaceflightnow.com/A glitzy reveal years in the making, included a description of architecture that could eventually ferry more than 100 to the red planet on each expedition, and thousands if SpaceX and its partners could muster support to build a fleet of boosters and
Russian Airline Owner to Challenge Musk, Bezos in Space
• Yuliya Fedorinova, Andrey LemeshkoA Russian airline entrepreneur wants to join the space race, challenging Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin LLC with a plan to launch commercial rockets.
Asteroid mining: The race for space riches
• newatlas.com by David SzondyThere's gold in them thar asteroids – also iron, nickel, copper and, most valuable of all, water.
Virgin Galactic Signs Sky and Space Global to Four-Launch Deal
• http://www.space.com, By SpaceNews StaffVirgin Galactic announced a contract for four launches of satellites for a planned communications constellation.
Popular Science's Spaceship Design Contest Winners!
• popsci.comCongratulations
Jeff Bezos's New Rocket Will Be Bigger Than Elon Musk's
• popsci.com by Sarah FechtBut size isn't everything
Russia is developing a mega-rocket that will transport supplies to build a base on the...
• dailymail.co.uk By Julian RobinsonVladimir Putin wants work to begin on a new 'super-heavy' space rocket Rocket would enable construction of a lunar base, Moscow has claimed Ambitious plan was unveiled by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin
NASA X-Ray Tech Could Enable Superfast Communication in Deep Space
• space.com by Charles Q ChoiNew technology could use X-rays to transmit data at high rates over vast distances in outer space, as well as enable communications with hypersonic vehicles during re-entry, when radio communications are impossible, NASA scientists say.
Mars ice deposit holds as much water as Lake Superior
• NASA/Jet Propulsion LaboratoryFrozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined.
UN and Sierra Nevada team up to take non-spacefaring nations into orbit
• http://newatlas.com, Dario BorghinoGetting into space is hard – so much so that, nearly 50 years after we put a man on the Moon, there are still only a handful of nations with the funds and technical capabilities to launch rockets into orbit and beyond.
How would sex work in space?
• http://www.theverge.com, by Angela ChenIt's more complicated than you might think
Will Jeff Bezos win the space race?...
• dailymail.co.uk, By Libby Plummer and Abigail BealJeff Bezos' Blue Origin space firm has confirmed that it is still on schedule to send paying customers into orbit as soon as 2018.
Perlan IMAGINE
• http://www.perlanproject.orgAN ENGINELESS AIRCRAFT REACHING THE EDGE OF SPACE
Here's How Extraterrestrial Farming Will Work on Mars
• http://www.space.com, By Ian O'NeillLanding humans on Mars would be a momentous event in human history. To live beyond Earth's biosphere is a dream to many, but establishing a sustainable presence on the Red Planet will require mastering its environment.
Rocket men: why tech's biggest billionaires want their place in space
• https://www.theguardian.com, by Dan TynanForget gilded mansions and super yachts. Among the tech elite, space exploration is now the ultimate status symbol
Elon Musk Explains Raptor Engine at IAC Congress Mexico | Engine test included
• youtube.comElon Musk Explains Raptor Engine at IAC Congress Mexico. Raptor engine test included. September 26 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk twitted: "SpaceX propulsion just achieved first firing of the Raptor interplanetary transport engine"
Only Makes Sense that Spacex would use Raptor Engines for upgrading Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy
• nextbigfuture.comThe Spacex Raptor engines are a family of cryogenic, methane-fueled, rocket engines.
China says tests of Propellentless EMDrive on Tiangong 2 space station were successful
• nextbigfuture.comDr. Chen Yue, Director of Commercial Satellite Technology for the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) announced on December 10, 2016 that not only has China successfully tested EmDrives technology in its laboratories, but that a proof-of-concept
Bootstrapping space industry and a solar system wide civilization with Robots and 3D printing
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comAdvances in robotics and additive manufacturing (3D printing) technologies are game-changing for space colonization.
Are aliens trying to contact Earth?
• dailymail.co.uk by Shivali BestSix new mysterious blasts of radio energy are detected from deep space
Scientists think they can finally explain the weirdness that is the 'alien megastructure' st
• http://www.sciencealert.com, BEC CREWSomething's happening inside it.
Trump's newest adviser wants to mine the moon
• popsci.com By Sarah FechtThe addition of Charles Miller to the NASA "landing party" bodes well for private space companies
'Mars Ice Home': Team Chips Away at Off-Earth House's Design
• http://www.space.com, By Leonard DavidThe first pioneers on Mars may build their homes using the ice beneath their feet.
NASA Offers $30,000 To Anyone Who Can Solve Its Space Poop Problem
• http://www.trueactivist.comNASA has hosted a "Space Poop Challenge" that calls for the public to devise an in-suit waste management system that will make astronauts' lives easier. A $30,000 cash reward awaits the winner/s of the challenge.
EM Drive is an "impossible" spacecraft engine that generates thrust ...
• http://www.naturalnews.comfrom the quantum vacuum, using no moving parts and producing no exhaust. (NaturalNews) I'm a fan of physicist Richard Feynman, and one of his most memorable quotes explains that "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts."
NASA Just Deployed a Fleet of Satellites From a Rocket Strapped to a Plane
• http://motherboard.vice.com, Becky Ferreiran Thursday morning at 8:37 AM EST, NASA successfully launched the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS), a constellation of eight hurricane-watching satellites, from a rocket strapped to the underside of an airplane.
Spacex filed with FCC to operate 4400 satellites and Elon Musk Spacex shares are worth $8.1 billion
• nextbigfuture.comToday, SpaceX filed with the FCC to obtain the rights to operate 4,400 satellites to offer internet services from orbit, a plan that was announced last year.
Beyond Dome City colonies to Shell Worlds or Paraterraforming as a shortcut to making...
• nextbigfuture.comExisting covered areas and domes on Earth are in the 30-40 acre ranges and with costs of $400 million to 1 billion.
LPP Fusion reviewed at Mars Conference
• nextbigfuture.comGerald Black - Nuclear Fusion is the solution to energy problems and to advance space propulsion
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