Pictures of Launch Ready SpaceX Super Heavy Starship on Mechazilla
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangElon Musk tweeted out a video of the SpaceX Starship preparing for launch in the next few days.
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College Kids Prepare to Send the First Private Lunar Rover to the Moon
• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org, By Andy CorbleyA crack team of university students is just a month away from launching the first privately-made lunar rover onto the Moon's surface.
SpaceX moves Starship to launch site, and liftoff could be just days away
• ARS TechnicaNo fooling--Starship rolled back to the launch pad on April 1.
Improving the Performance of Electrodeless Plasma Thrusters for Space Propulsion
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangA Tohoku University researcher has increased the performance of a high-power electrodeless plasma thruster, moving us one step closer to deeper explorations into space.
Scientists Are Preparing to Create a Traversable Quantum Wormhole
• https://www.vice.com, By Becky Ferreira"Counterportation" through a wormhole "gives you the end goal of the object being reconstituted across space, but we can verify that nothing has passed."
HERE WE GO! SpaceX is Finally Launching The Starship To Orbit For The First Time!
• https://www.youtube.com, Space TrendsThe space industry is in for another awakening moment in history. The world's most giant and powerful sleeping monster is up and ready to roll.
SpaceX now eyeing April for Starship's 1st orbital launch, Elon Musk says
• https://www.space.com, By Mike Wall'SpaceX will be ready to launch Starship in a few weeks, then launch timing depends on FAA license approval.'
Giant 3D-Printed Rocket Fails To Reach Orbit
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenA mostly 3D-printed rocket, measuring 110 feet high, blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday night and encountered a mid-flight problem preventing it from reaching orbit.
Watch Relativity Space launch world's 1st 3D-printed rocket tonight (March 22)
• https://www.space.com, By Mike WallLiftoff of the Terran 1 rocket is scheduled for 10 p.m. ET on Wednesday (March 22).
Watch Relativity Space launch Terran 1, world's 1st 3D-printed rocket on second try March 11
• https://www.space.com By Mike WallLiftoff of the Terran 1 rocket is scheduled for Saturday (March 11) during a three-hour window that opens at 1 p.m. ET.
Company to Make History With World's First 3D-Printed Rocket Launch
• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org, By Andy CorbleyA private space tech firm will become the first entity to launch a 3D-printed rocket, which is technically the largest 3D-printed object as well.
SpaceX Starlink Version 2 Mini Will Have 4X Version 1.5 Capacity
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangSpaceX Starlink V2 minis will be larger and more powerful than the Version 1.5 Starlink.
China Launching 12992 Satellites to Suppress SpaceX Starlink Will Backfire
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangResearchers say China plans to build a huge satellite network in near-Earth orbit to provide internet services to users around the world – and to stifle Elon Musk's Starlink.
SpaceX test-fires rocket ahead of Crew-6 astronaut launch for NASA (photos)
• https://www.space.com, By Elizabeth HowellThe Falcon 9 rocket and its Crew Dragon Endeavour will launch on Monday, Feb. 27 after wrapping up a key test.
Blue Origin Making Solar Cells from Lunar Regolith
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangSince 2021, Blue Origin has been making solar cells and transmission wire from regolith simulants.
SpaceX completes a hot fire test of its massive Super Heavy rocket [Updated]
• https://arstechnica.com, ERIC BERGER"The real goal is to not blow up the launch pad, that is success."
Expendable SpaceX Starship Could More Than Double Saturn V Payload
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangSpaceX's Starbase factory is already building multiple intentionally-expendable Starships. Ship 26 and Ship 27 feature no thermal protection, have no heat shield tiles, and will not be fitted with flaps, making them impossible to recover or reuse.
NASA's rotating detonation rocket engine posts record test results
• https://newatlas.com by Loz BlainExplosions get you much more bang from your fuel buck than combustion – if your engine can withstand them. NASA believes the rotating detonation engine could be the future of deep space travel, and it's getting strong results in prototype testing.
NASA and DARPA will Demo a Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine in Space by 2027
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangNASA and DARPA will work together to develop and demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space by 2027. The Demonstration Rocket is part of the Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) programme.
Plasma Thrusters Ran at 500% Beyond Old Power Limits
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangBenjamin Jorns, U-M associate professor of aerospace engineering led a new Hall thruster study that operated a Hall Plasma thruster at five times old power limits.
Asteroid-Mining Startup to Test Its Technology in Space This Year
• https://www.pcmag.comThe startup, AstroForge, is also planning a second mission this year to observe a target asteroid for potential mining.
New Nuclear Rocket Design to Send Missions to Mars in Just 45 Days
• University TodayWe live in an era of renewed space exploration, where multiple agencies are planning to send astronauts to the Moon in the coming years.
Houston, we have a problem! Inside the biggest battle for cislunar space...
• https://www.dailymail.co, By JAMES GORDONHouston, we have a problem! Inside the biggest battle for cislunar space - the area between Earth and the moon - since the Cold War era as nations and private companies plan 100 lunar missions in the next decade
U.S. to test nuclear-powered spacecraft by 2027
• Joey RouletteThe United States plans to test a spacecraft engine powered by nuclear fission by 2027 as part of a long-term NASA effort to demonstrate more efficient methods of propelling astronauts to Mars in the future, the space agency's chief said on Tuesda
Angry Astronaut Video of My Avatar Antimatter Rocket Article
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangAngry Astronaut made a video based off of my (and Centauri Dreams) Avatar's Antimatter rocket which is based off an actual scientifically sound design.
Avatar Movie Valkyrie Antimatter Rocket Design is a Real Design
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangThe Second Avatar movie will surpass $2 billion in box office. The start of the first Avatar movie showed the Valkyrie Antimatter rocket design. This was an actual antimatter rocket design.
Sweden just opened an orbital spaceport, Europe's new 'gateway to space'
• https://www.space.com, By Elizabeth HowellEsrange, in the far north of Sweden, has been launching sounding rockets since 1966. After nearly 60 years of operations, orbital missions are on the horizon.
NASA Studies Aerogel Fission Fragment Rocket 200X Better ISP Than Chemical
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangNASA NIAC phase 1 studies development of a nuclear fission fragment rocket engine (FFRE) that is exponentially more propellent efficient than rocket engines currently used...
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launches USSF-67 Today with Classified Payloads
• Next Big Future - Brian WangSpaceX is targeting Sunday, January 15 at 5:56 p.m. ET (22:56 UTC) for Falcon Heavy's launch of the USSF-67 mission to a geosynchronous Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA Is Planning to Find Aliens Using Spacetime Warped Around the Sun
• https://www.vice.com by Becky FerreiraA solar gravitational lens (SLG) mission "offers capabilities that are unmatched" for detecting extraterrestrial life, according to a study.
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