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Sep 7, 2021

Video shows SpaceX’s once ‘ridiculous’ rocket landing in the dark

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SpaceX has posted a new video that shows off what was once considered as a ‘ridiculous’ rocket landing in clouded darkness.

Sep 7, 2021

New York City Opens A $335 Million Park Island On Hudson River

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The long-awaited $355 million development of Little Island New York has finally been made reality, offering the Big Apple a unique new space.


Although it’s unlikely travel to the US will be on the cards for Aussies anytime soon, it’s good to keep track of the developments that await us when we eventually graduate from tiny travel bubbles to full-scale international adventure once again. The latest development: the ambitious new US$260 million (AU$335 million) Little Island New York, an offshore public park in the Hudson River that has been one of the city’s most anticipated openings for a couple of years now.

Located at Pier 55 the fascinating public park has been designed to resemble a supersized leaf drifting on the Hudson, buoyed by a base of 280 concrete piles and precast columns driven down as far as 60 metres below water, as well as 132 tulip-shaped concrete pots positioned at various elevations from 4 metres to 18 metres above water, designed specifically by Heatherwick Studio, and developed by engineering firm Arup, to hold the soil, overlooks, and trees. This support base allows for the two-acre park to stay securely afloat so its 687-seat amphitheatre, smaller stage, and plaza don’t suddenly drop to the depths of the Hudson.

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Sep 7, 2021

This New Reusable Rocket Ship Can Fly From Earth to Space Several Times a Day

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Designed to fly multiple daily missions, Dawn Aerospace’s Mk-II introduces a concept of true sustainability to the space race.

Sep 6, 2021

Physicist Designs Plasma Thruster That Could Make Space Travel 10 Times Faster

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It’ll take about seven months to send humans to Mars using today’s spaceships. That’s not exactly a quick jaunt, but it is doable.

Trips to other planets could take years, though, and if we want to explore the rest of our solar system — or the places beyond it — we’re going to need a faster way to travel.

Now, a physicist has designed a new rocket thruster that could potentially allow humans to travel 10 times faster in space — and it’s inspired by nuclear fusion.

Sep 6, 2021

Space: Investing in the Final Frontier

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Will declining launch costs, advances in technology and growing public-sector interest position space exploration as the next trillion-dollar industry?

Sep 6, 2021

GAME OVER! SpaceX INSANE NEW Starship To Reach Mars IN WEEKS!

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Sep 5, 2021

In 1953 a scientist predicted a man titled ‘Elon’ would lead humans to Mars and crown himself ‘Martian Emperor’

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“If we make life multiplanetary, there may come a day when some plants & animals die out on Earth, but are still alive on Mars,” Musk tweeted in mid-April.

What Musk probably didn’t know was that his destiny was already sealed. Not in the stars, but on paper.

In 1,953 a book was published that predicted plans for an “Elon” to take humans to Mars.

Sep 5, 2021

NASA’s Deep Space Network Looks to the Future

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The DSN is being upgraded to communicate with more spacecraft than ever before and to accommodate evolving mission needs.

Sep 5, 2021

Artemis I Mission Teams: The Crew Behind the Uncrewed Mission

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The first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft will not have a crew of astronauts on board, but there are several experienced teams of people behind the mission to ensure the success of the first SLS launch and Orion’s first trip around the Moon.

Sep 5, 2021

We may finally know where high-energy cosmic rays come from

Posted by in categories: chemistry, cosmology, space travel

High-energy cosmic rays have proven elusive… but we may have found their source.


Thanks to new research led by the University of Nagoya, scientists have quantified the number of cosmic rays produced in a supernova remnant for the first time. This research has helped resolve a 100-year mystery and is a major step towards determining precisely where cosmic rays come from.

While scientists theorize that cosmic rays originate from many sources — our Sun, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and active galactic nuclei (sometimes called quasars) — their exact origin has been a mystery since they were first discovered in 1912. Similarly, astronomers have theorized that supernova remnants (the after-effects of supernova explosions) are responsible for accelerating them to nearly the speed of light.

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