Archive for the ‘space travel’ category: Page 284
Jul 1, 2020
After Tuesday’s launch, SpaceX expands its fleet of used rockets [Updated]
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
SpaceX has gotten good enough at reuse that it’s building fewer rockets.
Jul 1, 2020
Welcome to Cloud City: The case for going to Venus, not Mars
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
I know Elon Musk believes Mars is the promised land that we should try to move humans to but what about Venus?
A growing group of scientists want to float above our sister planet before we conquer the red one.
Jun 30, 2020
NASA Team Claims ‘Impossible’ Space Engine Works—Get the Facts
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: quantum physics, space travel
face_with_colon_three circa 2016.
Scientists just published a paper saying that the controversial EmDrive produces thrust, even though that defies known laws of physics.
Jun 30, 2020
SpaceX’s reusable Falcon rockets have Europe thinking two steps ahead
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
In a rare instance of some connection to reality, a European Union commissioner overseeing the space industry has acknowledged the elephant in the room, admitting that SpaceX has changed the game for commercial rockets and that the upcoming Ariane 6 rocket may already be outdated.
While slight, European Commissioner Thierry Breton expressed some level of urgency, stating that “SpaceX has redefined the standards for launchers.” “Ariane 6 is a necessary step, but not the ultimate aim: we must start thinking now about Ariane 7.” Ariane 6 is a new European Space Agency (ESA) rocket designed to replace the existing Ariane 5 workhorse and do some while cutting costs. However, the vehicle’s design and the strategy behind it were fixed in place before SpaceX began to routinely demonstrate Falcon 9 reusability, effectively creating a rocket optimized for a market that ceased to exist soon after.
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Jun 29, 2020
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule looked ‘pretty awesome’ in spacewalk, astronaut says
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
NASA astronauts got a “pretty awesome” view of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vehicle docked with the International Space Station during a spacewalk on Friday (June 29).
Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken got the view of a lifetime when they stepped outside the space station to replace the outpost’s old solar array batteries. The star of that view was Endeavour, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft that delivered Behnken and his fellow NASA astronaut Doug Hurley to the station May 30 on their Demo-2 mission.
Jun 28, 2020
Canadarm3 to support Lunar Gateway space station
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
Canada is marching forward with its international partners to establish a permanent research installation near the Moon, the Lunar Gateway.
As it did for the Shuttle and Station programs before, the Canadian Space Agency, via a partnership with MacDonald, Dettwiler, and Associates, Inc., will build the next-generation robotic system: Canadarm3.
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Jun 28, 2020
Check out this Crew Dragon Photo Snapped During a Spacewalk
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy on Saturday tweeted a cool shot showing SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The capsule, seen to the right of the picture, looks tiny alongside the enormous space station, but its interior is actually large enough for a human to perform something close to a somersault.
Cassidy captured the image during Friday’s spacewalk with fellow astronaut Bob Behnken. The outing involved ongoing work to upgrade power systems on the space station, swapping old nickel-hydrogen batteries for new lithium-ion batteries. The batteries store power gathered from the station’s main solar arrays and the new ones will provide an improved and more efficient power capacity for the orbiting outpost.
Cassidy later tweeted a couple of other shots from the spacewalk, one a “space selfie” and another taken shortly after the pair returned to the inside of the ISS.
Jun 28, 2020
Faces of Technology — Women of NASA 2020
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: engineering, space travel
On this Women in Engineering Day, meet some of the NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration women who are making contributions to the technologies that make space exploration, including NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon, possible. WATCH https://go.nasa.gov/319sH4X #INWED20
Jun 28, 2020
SpaceX Starship — Anywhere on Earth in under an hour(60 minutes)
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space travel
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