Technology Progress = Iterations Times Progress Between Iterations
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, Brian WangElon Musk has noted that progress in any given technology is simply # of iterations * progress between iterations.
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Space Travel and Exploration
Sky Full of Starships
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangLet us assume that the SpaceX Starship is a complete fully reusable success that achieves mass production.
DARPA and US Space Force Aim to Mass Produce LEO Spy Satellites
• Next Big Future - Brian WangDARPA Blackjack aims to demonstrate spy satellite sensors that are low in size, weight, and power, and that can be mass produced to fit on many different buses from many different providers, for less than $2 million per payload.
SpaceX Has a Good Starship Engine Firing So Next is the 150 Meter Hop
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangSpaceX has successfully had a static engine test firing for a Raptor engine and for Starship prototype.
"Hostile" Russia Excluded From Trump's 'Moon Mining Pact' Dubbed The Artemis A
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenIn a bombshell exclusive, Reuters reports the Trump administration is readying plans to initiate a pact among US allies for mining the moon:
First U.S. Space Force commercial released: 'Maybe your purpose isn't on this planet'
• Washington TimesThe U.S. military has released its first commercial for the Space Force to attract what will be its first recruits as the service evolves into the military's newest branch.
ONE SMALL STEP Trump White House 'drafting legal blueprint for moon mining'...
• https://www.the-sun.com, Erica DaviesTHE Trump administration is reportedly putting together a legal blueprint for mining on the moon as part of the Artemis Accords, a new U.S.-sponsored international agreement.
World-first "impossible" rotating detonation engine fires up
• https://newatlas.com, By Loz BlainA Florida team working with the US Air Force claims that it's built and tested an experimental model of a rotating detonation rocket engine, which uses spinning explosions inside a ring channel to create super-efficient thrust.
Asteroid sneaks past satellites in one of the closest flybys on record
• https://www.cnet.com, Eric MackNo one saw it coming until it was right on top of us. More like above us, actually.
Out Of This World! Tom Cruise Plots Movie To Shoot In Space With Elon Musk's SpaceX
• https://deadline.com, By Mike Fleming JrI'm hearing that Tom Cruise and Elon Musk's Space X are working on a project with NASA that would be the first narrative feature film – an action adventure – to be shot in outer space.
First new officers to commission straight into Trump's Space Force from Academy
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk by LUKE KENTON--including lieutenant who emailed top general directly asking to make the switch from Air Force
SpaceX: Camel's Nose Under The Tent Of Rapid Space Militarization
• Zero Hedge - Tyler DurdenMusk's fantasies about colonizing Mars and selling seats on orbital space flights proved a very effective cover for the corporation's core military applications. Moreover, Space-X's status as a private corporation allows it to defray some of th
SpaceX will use sun visors to darken future Starlink satellites
• https://newatlas.com, By Anthony WoodSpaceX has announced that it will mount a sun visor on each of its Starlink satellites and have them perform controlled maneuvers...
SpaceX SN4 Starship Prototype Passed Cryo Fuel Test
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangThe SpaceX SN4 Starship has passed a lower pressure cryo fuel test. The next milestone will be the static fire test, where the Starship will be held in place during engine firing.
Magnet Enhanced Aerocapture Would Enable 39 Day Mars Crewed Flights
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangDirect comparisons were made between aerocapture and competing orbit insertion techniques based on state-of-the-art and advanced chemical propulsion, solar electric propulsion, and aerobraking.
SpaceX SN4 Prototype Ready for Pressure Tests
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangSpaceX teams have assembled Starship SN4 in about 2 weeks and it is on the test stand. SpaceX is actively building the next Starship, SN5.
Lightweight Exploration of Venus and Other Harsh Environments
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangA new design could enable affordable exploration of Venus and other harsh environments.
Making Lunar Water Mining About 1000 Times More Efficient
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangFlorida researchers propose a new method, called Aqua Factorem, to extract lunar water. It will drastically reduce energy and complexity of lunar mining operations helping to establish this industry.
Feasible and Affordable Missions for Exoplanet Imaging
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangThe solar gravitational lens (SGL) is characterized by remarkable properties: it offers brightness amplification of up to a factor of ~1e11 [100 billion amplification] (at 1 um) and extreme angular resolution (~1e-10 arcsec). As such, it allows for e
Elon Says Starlink Private Beta in 3 Months and Public in 6 Months
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangElon Musk says Starlink will offer a private beta for a global internet service in about three months and start offering a public beta service in 6 months.
NASA NIAC Funds Giant Lunar Crater Telescope
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, Brian WangAn ultra-long-wavelength radio telescope on the far-side of the Moon has tremendous advantages compared to Earth-based and Earth-orbiting telescopes.
Lunar Propellant Mining NASA NIAC Study
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, Brian WangThe Lunar Polar Mining Outpost (LPMO) (see quad chart graphic) is a breakthrough mission architecture that promises to greatly reduce the cost of human exploration and industrialization of the Moon.
Positron Dynamics Installed Antimatter Propulsion Related Gear
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, Brian WangIn March 2020, Positron Dynamics completed a new source installation at Berkeley. They continue to make progress on experiments and designs.
Lightweight Nuclear Electric Space Propulsion With Ten Times the Power
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, Brian WangThe Swarm-Probe Enabling ATEG Reactor, or SPEAR, is a nuclear electric propulsion spacecraft that uses a new, lightweight reactor moderator and advanced thermoelectric generators (ATEGs) to greatly reduce overall core mass.
SpaceX's Starlink satellites will soon get glare-reducing 'sunshades,' Elon Musk says
• Space.ComThe new feature will debut on Starlink Launch 9.
Another Successful Launch of SpaceX Starlink Satellites and a Faring is Reused
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangSpaceX has successfully reused a faring and they have another successful launch of 60 Starlink Satellites. If they are able to use the v0.9 satellites then they have enough satellites for minor global coverage.
Starlink Mission
• SpaceX - YouTube.ComSpaceX launched Wednesday, April 22 at 3:30 p.m. EDT, or 19:30 p.m. UTC, for its seventh launch of Starlink satellites. Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX Starlink Nears Initial Global Operation Scale
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangSpaceX is targeting Wednesday, April 22 at 3:30 p.m. EDT, or 19:30 p.m. UTC, for its seventh launch of Starlink satellites.
You can watch SpaceX launch 60 new Starlink satellites into orbit today. Here's how.
• Space.ComLiftoff is set for 3:37 p.m. EDT (1937 GMT).
SpaceX moves Starlink launch up a day to Wednesday
• https://www.space.com, By Mike WallWednesday's good weather forecast occasioned the shift.
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