Our Space Apps London hosts Inmarsat are launching today with a SpaceX rocket!
The SpaceX Falcon 9 đ has been raised to launch position and we are go for #I5F4 lift-off at 19:20 EDT/00:20 BST today! Watch all the live action here: http://www.inmarsat.com/i5f4/
Moon Express is one of only two teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition with a verified launch contract for its 2017 lunar mission. In October 2015, Moon Express announced that it had signed the worldsâ first multi-mission launch contract with Rocket Lab USA for 3 lunar missions between 2017 and 2020.
Moon Express sees the moon as critical for humanity to become a multi-world species, and that our sister world, the Moon, is an eighth continent holding vast resources than can help us enrich and secure our future.
MoonEx had been planning to place the International Lunar Observatory (ILO) on the Moon as early as 2018. The plan calls for placement of both a 2 meters (6 ft 7 in) radio telescope as well as an optical telescope at the South Pole of the Moon.
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The Lunar Lander from âAlien Covenantâ is being sent to the moon. #AlienCovenant
The Lunar Lander from âAlien: Covenantâ is being sent to the moon.
Upcoming missions to Mars have grabbed plenty of headlines in recent years, but before we set off for the Red Planet, a lot more research is needed â and thatâs why NASA has a new plan for sending astronauts into orbit around the Moon.
Itâs been a while â we last set foot on the Moon in 1972. But NASA thinks the cislunar orbit (between the Moon and the Earth) is going to be an essential testing site and launching pad for reaching Mars in the 2030s.
As NASAâs Greg Williams explained this week at the Humans to Mars Summit in Washington DC, the Moon mission is on the slate for 2027 and could see a crew spending a year sailing above the lunar surface.
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Each year, the worldâs greatest innovators and inventors gather for the Edison Awards to celebrate âgame-changingâ developments in technology, engineering, marketing, and design. Here are just some of the innovations that are already transforming our world.
Each year, innovators from across the globe trade in their lab coats and laptops for ties and gowns to honor the nominees at the Edison Awards ceremony in New York City. Over the past three decades, the awards have highlighted the most innovative products and people in science. Last yearâs honorees featured Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASAâs New Horizons mission to Pluto.
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By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) â The U.S. militaryâs experimental X-37B space plane landed on Sunday at NASAâs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two years, the Air Force said.
The unmanned X-37B, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, touched down at 7:47 a.m. EDT (1147 GMT) on a runway formerly used for landings of the now-mothballed space shuttles, the Air Force said in an email.
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A few months ago, physicist Harold White shocked the aeronautics industry when he announced that his team at NASA was in the process of developing a faster-than-light warp drive. His design could one day transport a spacecraft to the nearest star in a matter of weeks.
The idea originally came to White while he was considering an equation formulated by physicist Miguel Alcubierre in his 1994 paper titled, âThe Warp Drive: Hyper-Fast Travel Within General Relativity. Alcubierre suggested a mechanism by which space-time could be âwarpedâ and behind a spacecraft.
Michio Kaku dubbed Alcubierreâs theory a âpassport to the universe,â which harnesses a quirk in the âcosmological codeâ that allows for the expansion and contraction of space-time. If proven true, it could allow for hyper-fast travel between interstellar destinations. In order to accomplish this, the starship would need able to expand the space behind it rapidly to push it forward. For passengers, it would look like a lack of acceleration.
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