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Dec 22, 2024

Project Hyperion

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Project Hyperion explores the feasibility of crewed interstellar travel via generation ships, using current and near-future technologies. A generation ship is a hypothetical spacecraft designed for long-duration interstellar travel, where the journey may take centuries to complete. The objective of the competition is to design the habitat of the generation ship, including its architecture and society.

Dec 22, 2024

This Purple Diamond Microwave Laser Could Be Key To Detecting Future Deep Space Signals

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Talking to distant spacecraft and more might become a lot easier.

Dec 22, 2024

Scientists Bring Us Closer to a Real, Working Warp Drive

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A warp drive for faster-than-light travel may no longer need exotic matter.

Dec 20, 2024

Firefly, ispace lunar landers to share Falcon 9 launch

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WASHINGTON — Japanese lunar lander developer ispace has confirmed that its second mission to the moon will launch on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 as Firefly Aerospace’s first lunar lander.

In an online presentation late Dec. 17 to discuss preparations for its Resilience lander, Takeshi Hakamada, founder and chief executive of ispace, said that his company’s mission would launch during a six-day window in mid-January on the same rocket launching Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 1 mission.

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Dec 18, 2024

SpaceX’s Starship Flight 7 test flight gets FAA launch license. But when will it fly?

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SpaceX’s next Starship megarocket now has a license to fly.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday (Dec. 17) issued a launch license for SpaceX’s upcoming Starship Flight 7 test flight, clearing the way for the company’s next launch of the world’s largest rocket from South Texas. The launch license comes on the heels of several Starship engine tests by SpaceX to check the flight readiness of its seventh Ship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket booster.

Dec 17, 2024

Media Briefing: What’s On Board Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1

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NASA briefing on lunar lander from Firefly.


NASA holds a virtual audio-only media teleconference to highlight the NASA science flying onboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign. Participants include:

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Dec 17, 2024

Atomic Spray Painting Transforms Material Science for Greener Tech

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics, science, space travel

Researchers have developed a technique called “atomic spray painting” using molecular beam epitaxy to strain-tune potassium niobate, enhancing its ferroelectric properties.

This method allows precise manipulation of material properties, with potential applications in green technologies, quantum computing, and space exploration.

Material Strain Tuning

Dec 17, 2024

Space Trash or Heritage? The Surprising Archaeology of Mars

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Human-made objects on Mars, including spacecraft, landers, and rovers, may hold significant archaeological value rather than being dismissed as space debris.

Scholars propose cataloging and preserving these artifacts to document humanity’s early interplanetary exploration and ensure future missions respect these historical markers.

Mars as a new frontier: understanding the value of space debris.

Dec 16, 2024

Scientists Say Antimatter Rockets Could Get Us to the Stars Within a Lifetime — Here’s the Catch

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The most explosive fuel in the universe could power humanity’s first starship.

Dec 16, 2024

Rise in Antimatter Research Could Push Us Closer to The Ultimate Space Engine

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Getting places in space quickly has been the goal of propulsion research for a long time.

Rockets, our most common means of doing so, are great for providing lots of force but extraordinarily inefficient. Other options like electric propulsion and solar sailing are efficient but offer measly amounts of force, albeit for a long time.

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