Read these five articles to understand everything about the SpaceX Inspiration4 launch today.
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SpaceX is about to launch 4 inexperienced civilians into Earth’s orbit. Watch it live on Wednesday
The Inspiration4 crew members have never been to space. They’ve only trained for five months. Their spaceship has a new glass dome for the views.
SpaceX: Elon Musk shares photo of drone ship that enables more missions
A Shortfall of Gravitas: SpaceX’s new drone ship detailed
The ship supported its first mission on August 29. This was the 23rd Commercial Resupply Services mission, the latest in a series of launches for NASA that sends cargo to the International Space Station.
A Shortfall of Gravitas is a notable upgrade over previous ships. SpaceX explained during the mission launch livestream that it improves over its predecessors with a fully autonomous operation procedure. That means it can travel to sea, find its position, receive the rocket, grab the rocket with the “octograbber” robot and return it to land — all autonomously.
Does the universe end? An astronomer weighs in
Above the atmosphere is space. It’s called that because it has far fewer molecules, with lots of empty space between them.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel to outer space — and then keep going? What would you find? Scientists like me are able to explain a lot of what you’d see. But there are some things we don’t know yet, like whether space just goes on forever.
Planets, stars, and galaxies.
The SpaceX Competitor is Printing Its Rockets
California-based startup Relativity Space is manufacturing rockets using giant Westworld-esque 3D printers, a process they say could drastically shorten the rocket-making process from years to weeks. Tim Ellis, the company’s 30-year-old CEO, explains how the high degree of automation in Relativity’s factory has enabled them to build rockets remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic.
#Coronavirus #Space #HelloWorld.
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Look: NASA’s futuristic eVTOL helicopter is ready for flight tests
NASA and Joby’s eVTOL craft could be the weird plane/chopper fusion of the future.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is also America’s civilian aerospace research organization. In that role, it has been instrumental in developing new technologies ranging from rocket engines to aircraft control systems.
Part of that role is running the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) campaign to test autonomous drone technology. The latest milestone in that campaign was testing an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) helicopter intended for eventual use as an air taxi.
The testing, which runs through September 10 utilizes a yet-to-be-named eVTOL craft from a company called Joby, which has been developing the technology with NASA for over 10 years. The aircraft, which looks like a large version of a 6-rotor drone, will perform flight tests at Joby’s Electric Flight Base, near Big Sur in California.
