NASA Just Dropped Its Most Detailed Video Tour of the Moon Yet
• https://motherboard.vice.comThanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, high-resolution imagery of our closest neighboring world is more accessible than ever.
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DARPA is focusing on space as a the new great battlefront
• https://www.naturalnews.com(Natural News) After many years of mainly Earth-bound inventions and innovations, could it finally be time for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to set its sights elsewhere, particularly space? Regardless of whether you think it
Tour of the Moon in 4K
• youtube.comTake a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south poles, we highlight interesting features,
Animator Andy Front is responsible for this most spectacular of videos featuring Elon Musk...
• https://insideevs.com, ELECTRICCARSTVAnimator Andy Front is responsible for this most spectacular of videos featuring Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX.
SpaceX Cannot Broadcast Videos From Space Due to an Obsolete Law
• https://newsspaceflight.com, by Marcin FrackiewiczRestrictions from the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) have forced SpaceX officials to end the live video coverage of the rocket's launch on March 30.
'I saw a UFO' Buzz Aldrin PASSES lie detector test revealing truth about aliens
• https://www.dailystar.co.uk, By Mike ParkerMOON walker Buzz Aldrin and three other astronauts have passed lie detector tests over claims they experienced alien encounters.
Startup will launch luxury space hotel in 2021 and charge about $800,000 per night
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangStartup Orion Span has developed proprietary technology to drive a full order of magnitude of cost out of the design and manufacture of a space station.
Getting to the outer solar system 15X faster with missions over 40 times larger
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangCentauri Dreams discusses the NASA NIAC Breakthrough Propulsion Architecture for Interstellar Precursor Missions project.
Virgin Galactic completes first rocket-powered, supersonic flight of its new spacecraft, Unity
• https://www.cnbc.com, Michael SheetzVirgin Galactic completed its first powered flight in nearly four years on Thursday when Richard Branson's space company launched its Unity spacecraft by rocket power, reaching supersonic speeds before safely landing.
In 2018, SpaceX is launching once every 13 days
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comArs Technica reports that SpaceX has flown seven rockets in 2018--six Falcon 9 missions and one Falcon Heavy. This is one launch every 13 days in 2018. * SpaceX cab use three launch pads in Florida and California * 18 launches in 2017 * Falcon
RemoveDebris satellite will test space junk removal methods
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comSpaceX has launched a small satellite provided by the Surrey Space Center known as RemoveDEBRIS that will be deployed through an airlock in the Japanese Kibo module and released into space by the laboratory's Japanese robot arm.
FCC approves SpaceX 4425 internet satellite network
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comThe Federal Communications Commission approved an application by SpaceX to provide broadband services using satellite technology in the United States and around the world. With this action, the Commission takes another step to increase high-speed bro
Rocket Lab sets date for first commercial launch of its Electron rocket
• theverge.com By Loren GrushIt's business time for 'It's Business Time'
Lockheed Martin wins NASA supersonic X-plane contract
• https://newatlas.comSon-of-Concorde may not be daydream for much longer with NASA awarding a US$247.5 million contract to Lockheed Martin to design, build, and test a prototype supersonic aircraft capable of generating no more noise than a car door closing while flying
Tiangong 1: Chinese satellite falls to Earth, mostly burns up on re-entry
• https://www.cbsnews.com, CBS/APTiangong 1, China's defunct and reportedly out-of-control space station, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere Sunday night, Chinese space authorities say. It mostly burnt up on re-entry over the central South Pacific.
Breakthrough Propulsion Architecture gets Phase 2 NIAC funding
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangThe breakthrough architecture uses a kilometer-scale, multi-hundred-megawatt phased-array laser to beam power to a vehicle that converts it to electrical power for a multi-megawatt electric propulsion system that produces a specific impulse of 58,000
Radioisotope Positron Propulsion
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangCurrent state of the art in-space propulsion systems based on chemical or ion propellants fail to meet requirements of 21st century space missions.
Iridium-5 Mission
• https://www.youtube.com, SpaceXSpaceX is targeting Friday, March 30 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Iridium-5 NEXT mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
SpaceX heavy and near term solar sail for manned missions to Near Earth Objects
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangCentauri Dreams has a published paper by Gregory Matloff who has written extensively on Interstellar Travel and solar sails.
NASA wants to waste tens of billions on SLS despite proven SpaceX Falcon Heavy
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangArs Technica reports that Bill Gerstenmaier, chief of human spaceflight for NASA is still supporting the wasteful development of the multi-billion per year Space Launch System.
Is Trump playing the Reagan Space Defense card? To what end?
• arcleinObjects photographed in space several hundred miles above Earth include the ISS and are likely either human space craft such as Solar Warden or extraterrestrial craft. This is an alleged top secret aircraft or space vehicle which has some quite inc
SpaceX heavy and near term solar sail for manned missions to Near Earth Objects
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com,brian wangCentauri Dreams has a published paper by Gregory Matloff who has written extensively on Interstellar Travel and solar sails.
The First SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 should launch in April and each could be reused 10 to 100 times
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangThe current SpaceX Falcon 9 boosters that have been recovered were only designed to be reused 2-3 times but the new SpaceX Falcon 9 block 5 are expected to last for ten reuses.
Self-taught rocket scientist blasts off into California sky
• Pat Graham and Michael BalsamoHe finally went up -- just like the self-taught rocket scientist always pledged he would.
Jeff Bezos And Crony Technocrats Gather To Envision Utopia At MARS
• https://www.technocracy.news, By: Dave GershgomMARS ?" Machine learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space exploration is Jeff Bezos brainchild to envision the 'Golden Age' and only a selected few are invited to attend. This is a gathering of global Technocrats, whose collective influence are
Planetary Society ready to launch LightSail 2 solar sail
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangThe Planetary Society's solar sailing CubeSat (Lightsail2) has been installed into a spring-loaded deployer, and that deployer was bolted to the Prox-1 spacecraft. It was a double integration; basically they put a box inside a box inside a box.
New Air Force launches for SpaceX and ULA
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comThe US Air Force announced two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch service contracts. SpaceX has been awarded a $290,594,130 firm-fixed-price contract, for launch services to deliver three GPS III missions (1 base and 2 options) to the in
How would we react to extraterrestrial life? 'Rather well,' study shows
• https://www.usatoday.com, Lauren CastleNASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring an ancient Martian lake since 2012. Now, a study says that lake could've teemed with microbial life.
Advanced Vasimr plasma drives and SpaceX BFR trip times
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangThe Vasimr rocket is on track to a 100-hour continuous firing this summer of the company's VX200SSTM VASIMR® prototype at a power level of 100 kW.
Future of humanity in Space with SpaceX, Planetary Resources, Blue Origin and Starlabs
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangThere were MIT presentations about getting into space and beyond the cradle of the Earth
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