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Space Mining: Luxembourg and lunar robotic company ispace shoot for the moon

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in business, engineering, government, robotics/AI, space

Mar 3
2017

(sth/T.L.) – Luxembourg’s government and Tokyo-based space lunar robotic exploration company ispace Inc. on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the context of the SpaceResources.lu initiative with focus on developing miniaturized technology to discover, map, and utilize resources on the Moon.

Japanese start-up ispace was created by Hakuto, a finalist team of Google’s prestigious innovation competition Google Lunar XPRIZE. The company already works together with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and will continue to do so.

Within the framework of this MoU, ispace intends to focus, through its new European office based in Luxembourg, on business development, R&D and on several key technical services, including payload development, engineering and integration.

America Needs a Space Corps

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in government, security, space

Mar 3
2017

American space power stagnated under U.S. Air Force stewardship a long time ago. [1] Congress observed this situation nearly 25 years ago, as the epigraphs above indicate. However, nothing substantive was done to fix the problem.

This article recommends the creation of a U.S. Space Corps in the Department of the Air Force as an initial step to set American space power on a path to reach its full potential.

Ultimately, America’s national security interests in space will best be served when Congress creates an independent Space Corps, just as it created independent services for land, sea and air, uniting them under the Department of Defense.

Our free interstellar magazine “Principium” N°16 is out now!

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in entertainment, robotics/AI, space

Mar 3
2017

The cover features an AI interstellar probe, beautifully illustrated by concept artist Efflam Mercier. Here is the download link:

http://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Principium_16_Feb_2017.pdf

This issue covers the following topics:

An exclusive look at Jeff Bezos’s plan to set up Amazon-like delivery for ‘future human settlement’ of the moon

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in space, transportation

Mar 3
2017

In a paper prepared for NASA, Bezos says his Blue Origin space company could land a delivery vehicle on the moon by 2020.

NASA’s Solar Probe Plus spacecraft to fly to the sun

Posted by Dan Kummer in space

Mar 1
2017

NASA is gearing up for its first mission ever to fly this close to the blazing sun.

Is this how humans will look after 6,000 years on Mars?

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in space

Feb 28
2017

Mars colonists might evolve into a new type of human, experts say. Here’s what they might look like.

Space, environment, resources, jobs

Posted by Nicola Bagalà in employment, energy, space

Feb 27
2017

An answer to concerns about rejuvenation-induced overpopulation from a logistical point of view.

Why do we worry about overpopulation? What’s so bad about it? Well, several things. We could have too many people with respect to the space available on Earth; too many people and not enough jobs for everyone; too many people and not sufficient resources; too many people polluting the environment beyond what it can take.

All these potential problems need to be discussed. Thus, in this article I’m going to play accountant a little bit. You can read the whole article, or jump to the section that concerns you the most.

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