Maiden Flight for Rocket Lab's Mini Launcher Nears
• http://www.space.comWhen Rocket Lab's small satellite launcher blasts off from New Zealand next week on its debut test flight, it will be more than just the Electron rocket that is on trial.
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Mysterious flashes of light from Earth captured by NASA satellite
• https://wattsupwiththat.comWASHINGTON, DC -- One million miles from Earth, a NASA camera is capturing unexpected flashes of light reflecting off our planet.
Towards an Economically Viable roadmap to large scale space colonization
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangAl Globus and Joe Strout have an analysis that space settlements in low (~500 km) Earth equatorial orbits may not require any radiation shielding at all.
Moon as unprospected eighth continent that will produce trillionaires
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangMoon Express is one of only two teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition with a verified launch contract for its 2017 lunar mission. In October 2015, Moon Express announced that it had signed the worlds' first multi-mission launch contract with
Spacex will begin deploying low cost mass produced internet satellites starting in 2019
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comSpaceX said it plans to launch thousands of satellites on Falcon 9 rockets beginning in 2019 to establish what would one day become a global broadband internet constellation.
$23 billion for no launches by 2018 and no new rocket engines but NASA has ...
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comadvanced welding technology...NASA has delayed the first launch of its heavy-payload rocket until 2019 and decided against an idea floated by the White House to put astronauts aboard the capsule that is set to fly around the moon, the U.S. space agen
China tests 'Lunar Palace' as it eyes moon mission
• https://phys.org, AFPChinese students will live in a laboratory simulating a lunar-like environment for up to 200 days as Beijing prepares for its long-term goal of putting humans on the moon.
China plans asteroid base for interstellar travel and mining
• http://www.news.comIt's one small step for man, one giant opportunity for miners. With some of Earth's valuable resources dwindling, space mining is looming as the new frontier for world governments.
The Finesse of Flying Cassini Between Saturn's Rings
• Wired by Adam RogersThe Cassini space probe is going to dive through Saturn's rings again on Wednesday, the third of a planned 22 orbits threading that planetary needle as the probe continues a ballistic death-drop inward.
The Finesse of Flying Cassini Between Saturn's Rings
• Wired by Adam RogersThe Cassini space probe is going to dive through Saturn's rings again on Wednesday, the third of a planned 22 orbits threading that planetary needle as the probe continues a ballistic death-drop inward.
NASA is losing the race to build a better rocket
• theverge.com by Loren GrushMultiple powerful rockets are coming online soon -- but how do they stack up next to each other?
Facility to test SABRE air-breathing engine under construction
• http://newatlas.com, Darren QuickWith the goal of providing single-stage-to-orbit capabilities that will enable spacecraft to take off and land like aircraft, and potentially ushering in an age of hypersonic air travel, Reaction Engines' Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABR
Spacex set for second booster relaunch in June
• http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangSpaceX's second re-launch of a previously used Falcon 9 rocket booster is targeted for next month, for a mission launching a Bulgarian communications satellite from Kennedy Space Center.
Virgin tests space plane's "feather" re-entry system
• newatlas.com by David SzondyVirgin Galactic's VSS Unity suborbital spacecraft took to the skies over the Mojave desert in an unpowered flight test of the ship's feather re-entry system.
Astrobee: The Adorable Little Robot That'll Soon Jet Around the ISS
• https://www.wired.com, Matt SimonIt is, without a doubt, the most expensive air hockey table on Earth.
ARCHIVE: Rocket Launch Attempt 2 for Falcon 9 with NROL-76
• https://www.youtube.com, Space VideosSpaceX to launch national security payload - NROL-76 - at 11:15 UTC, 07:15 Local time from Kennedy Space Centers launch pad 39A.
Spacex has tenth successful rocket stage landing and first military mission
• Next Big FutureSpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket on solid ground again, after launching the vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Video of Elon Musk interview for TED talk
• Next Big FutureElon Musk had a 40-minute interview with TED's Chris Anderson on Friday, April 28, 2017 at the TED 2017 conference in Vancouver.
Scientists found a no-frills way to build on Mars
• https://www.usatoday.com, Sean RossmanA group of engineers found a way to build on Mars using nothing but the Red Planet's soil, a discovery they said could be used to eventually build structures on the Red Planet.
Stephen Hawking Is Going Into Space
• http://www.trueactivist.com"But my ultimate ambition is to fly into space. I thought no one would take me, but Richard Branson has offered me a seat on Virgin Galactic and I said 'yes' immediately."
750,000 Pieces of Debris Orbiting Earth Threaten Future of Spaceflight, Warn Experts
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Sarah KnaptonMore than 750,000 pieces of dangerous debris are now orbiting Earth and threatening the future of spaceflight, the largest ever conference on space rubbish has heard.
Will we soon build a VILLAGE on the moon?
• dailymail.co.uk By Daisey DunneChina is in talks with Europe about launching a lunar settlement
Whose is bigger? How all the Mars-bound rockets stack up
• http://www.popsci.comLike everything else in the 1960s, NASA's Saturn V rocket set a mark for extreme. At 363 feet tall, with 7.5 million pounds of liftoff thrust, it lifted six moon-bound missions into space. Retired in 1973, it remains the tallest, heaviest, and most
What it would actually take to get to Mars by 2020
• http://www.popsci.com/trump-mars-2020Today, during a phone call with astronaut Peggy Whitson on the International Space Station, President Trump joked that he hoped NASA would land astronauts on Mars by the end of his first term in 2020.
'Get to Mars during my first term':
• telegraph.co.uk By Helena HortonDonald Trump talks to Nasa astronauts in livestream
Space May Be Next Frontier for Earth's Crude Oil Giants, Analyst Says
• https://www.bloomberg.comThe Middle East has an outsize impact on energy here on Earth. One analyst thinks some regional powerhouses may leverage that role into the development of natural resources in space.
Proposed Mission to find life on Saturn's moon Enceladus
• nextbigfuture.com Author: brian wangSaturn's moon Enceladus has a subsurface ocean covered by a layer of ice. Some liquid escapes into space through cracks in the ice, which is the source of one of Saturn's rings.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is about to plunge between Saturn and its rings --
• theverge.com by Loren Grush-- before spiraling into the planet
Natasha Hurley-Walker: How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies
• TEDOur universe is strange, wonderful and vast, says astronomer Natasha Hurley-Walker. A spaceship can't carry you into its depths (yet) -- but a radio telescope can.
Watch NASA Launch 38 Itty Bitty Satellites to the ISS
• https://www.wired.com, Chelsea LeLater today, an Atlas V rocket will blast off to the International Space Station bearing 7,600-odd pounds of food, water and other sundries to the astronauts on board.
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