Mar 25, 2022
Blue Origin New Glenn: Specs, power, and updated launch window for giant rocket
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: space travel
Blue Origin is set to launch the New Glenn rocket to orbit. Here’s what you need to know about it.
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Mar 24, 2022
Elon Musk Sets New Target for First SpaceX Starship Orbital Flight
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: education, Elon Musk, space travel
The biggest of the billionaire’s rockets could launch before school lets out in North America.
Mar 23, 2022
Blue Origin’s biggest rocket launch yet just got delayed — here’s what it means
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: space travel
Blue Origin’s plan to launch a giant new rocket is unlikely to unfold this year. It leaves the spaceflight firm sticking with New Shepard tourist launches for the coming year.
Mar 22, 2022
Elon Musk Thinks Destinus Technology Will Soon End The War Against Russia, Know How
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: business, drones, Elon Musk, physics, robotics/AI, space travel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vhiYHdMnK44
Mikhail Kokorich is the founder of Destinus. This serial entrepreneur has been dubbed Russia’s Elon Musk by his public relations team. The Russian businessman says his business, Destinus, is developing a hydrogen-powered, zero-emissions transcontinental delivery drone that can travel at speeds up to Mach 15.
Destinus plans to combine the technological advancements from a spaceplane with the ordinary and straightforward physics from a glider to create a hyperplane that will meet the many demands of a hyper-connected world.
Mar 22, 2022
SpaceX Starship orbital flight: Launch date window, engine specs, and more for ambitious flight
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: space travel
SpaceX plans to send the Starship to orbit.
SpaceX is gearing up to launch the Starship into orbit, the biggest test yet for the ship designed to send humans to Mars and beyond.
Mar 21, 2022
Dr. Samantha Weeks, Ph.D. — Polaris Dawn — Science & Research Director
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: biological, science, space travel
Research On Humans Adapting, Living & Working In Space — Colonel (ret) Dr. Samantha Weeks, Ph.D., Polaris Dawn, Science & Research Director
Colonel (ret) Dr. Samantha “Combo” Weeks, Ph.D. is the Science & Research Director, of the Polaris Dawn Program (https://polarisprogram.com/dawn/), a planned private human spaceflight mission, operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman, planned to launch using the Crew Dragon capsule.
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For about 9 months, Elon has been suggesting that Booster 4 with Starship 20 on top of it would do the first orbital test of Starship.
The big question was how safe would it be to launch with 29 Raptor engines at once? A lot of people were talking about Russia’s N1 rocket which failed in all four attempts with its 31 engines, causing one of the world’s largest nonnuclear explosions and killing over a hundred people in the process. The most Raptor engines that have ever been static fire tested at once is 6. It would be very difficult to rebuild the Starship tower if it was destroyed. Easily ten times as hard as building another Starship and booster.
Note that using so many engines is not impossible. For example, the Falcon Heavy launches with 27 engines and all its launches have been successful so far. The problem is that the Raptor is the world’s first full-flow staged-combustion-cycle engine and SpaceX has not perfected it yet. For example, the only Starship which successfully landed from a medium-height test almost missed the landing pad and was on fire when it landed. (All other medium-height test Starships exploded, one before it even hit the ground.)
Mar 19, 2022
NASA Spacecraft Spots China’s Mars Rover and Its Impressive Wheel Tracks From Orbit
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space travel
Mar 19, 2022
Why the $4.1 billion launch cost of NASA’s Moon rocket could destroy it
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: space travel
That’s over double the original expected launch cost.
NASA’s Space Launch System is supposed to ferry astronauts to the Moon, but at an estimated $4.1 billion per launch, it may be doomed before it ever gets off the ground.
Mar 19, 2022
NASA Releases Details on how Starship Will be Part of its Return to the Moon
Posted by Chima Wisdom in categories: engineering, government, law, space travel
The path back to the moon is long and fraught with danger, both in the real, physical sense and also in the contractual, legal sense. NASA, the agency sponsoring the largest government-backed lunar program, Artemis, has already been feeling the pain on the contractual end. Legal battles have delayed the development of a critical component of the Artemis program – the Human Landing System (HLS). But now, the ball has started rolling again, and a NASA manager recently reported the progress and future vision of this vital part of the mission to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers at a conference.
Kent Chojnacki is the manager of NASA’s Systems Engineering & Integration Office. He recently gave a presentation entitled Human Landing System. While it only ran to six content slides, he provided some more details into how the agency is arranging its work with future contractors developing the part of the Artemis program that will take astronauts down to the lunar surface.
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