Archive for the ‘space travel’ category: Page 397
I will illustrate the massive game-changer that the SpaceX BFR will be. I will show this by describing how we can have millions of people in space by the 2040s.
May 29, 2018
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo hits Mach 1.9 in second successful test flight
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Virgin Galactic is celebrating a successful second test flight of SpaceShipTwo, the rocket-powered passenger spacecraft that may someday take tourists to the edge of space. Today’s test took the VSS Unity, the second craft built in this class, up to 114,500 feet and Mach 1.9, or nearly 1,300 miles per hour.
Unity’s first powered flight was less than two months ago, which was itself the first powered flight Virgin Galactic had attempted since the fatal breakup of the company’s previous SpaceShipTwo-class spacecraft, Enterprise, in 2014.
Much has been redone since then but the basics of the Virgin Galactic flight style are the same. A relatively traditional jet-powered plane, a WhiteKnightTwo class plane (in this case the VMS Eve), carries the SpaceShipTwo craft (Unity) up to somewhere around 45,000 feet. There the latter detaches and fires up its rocket engine, accelerating to high speed and high altitude, after which it glides to the surface and lands more or less like any other plane.
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May 28, 2018
Jeff Bezos wants to build a moon colony, with or without NASA
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
May 27, 2018
NASA’s ‘Impossible’ EmDrive Engine Tested—Here Are the Results
Posted by Andreas M. Hein in categories: quantum physics, space travel
“The ‘thrust’ is not coming from the EmDrive, but from some electromagnetic interaction,” the team reports in a proceeding for a recent conference on space propulsion.
The first independent tests of the EmDrive suggest there’s a mundane explanation for the wildly controversial device.
May 27, 2018
Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin space venture go all in on moon settlements
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
LOS ANGELES — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture will work with NASA as well as the European Space Agency to create a settlement on the moon.
And even if Blue Origin can’t strike public-private partnerships, Bezos will do what needs to be done to make it so, he said here at the International Space Development Conference on Friday night.
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May 26, 2018
Asteroid Mining (Phase 1) to Begin in 2020, Says This Space Pioneer @themotleyfool #stocks
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
May 25, 2018
Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos advocates a return to the moon and calls for collaborative effort in space
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: existential risks, space travel
Staying on Earth “is not necessarily extinction, but the alternative is stasis,” Bezos said during an onstage discussion Friday night with Geekwire journalist Alan Boyle at the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles.
May 25, 2018
Sir Richard Branson is training as an astronaut and hopes to travel into space
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
One of the great things about space exploration is how it can shift your perspective. And you don’t even need to leave home. Here we all are in our spaceship Earth, approaching planet Mars, the planet slowly looming larger in our forward view.