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Civilian Space Travel

Looks that way. I wonder who was the first child in an aeroplane.

Looks like the Woz is getting into the space debris mitigation business.

You know—I pictured him doing what Elon is doing.

Speaking of Musk, I understand SpaceX is expanding…with one location along…wait for it:

Billy Mitchell Boulevard. :}

No fate but what Elon makes.

I have to work hard just to be a loser!


Pinpoint delivery?
https://www.universetoday.com/152643/the-future-could-bring-pinpoint-deliveries-from-orbit/

NASA gateway
https://www.space.com/nasa-gateway-deep-space-complex-first-look

Starlink
https://planet4589.org/astro/starsim/fas.pdf

New smallsats
https://spacenews.com/blue-canyon-l...l-satellite-performance-at-very-low-altitude/

Graveyard
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/nasa-spitzer-telescope/605569/

New threat to sats
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4416/1

Moon habs
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/inflatable-moon-settlements
 
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And with no live views during Inspiration 4.. I'll say it if no one else does.. I think the 300 Mile High Club has its first members
 
I'm just speculating, and as far as I know, not couples no, though I doubt that's really necessary.
 
Looks like the Shat. Kirk himself will be going up on Bezoes dildo rocket sometime in October. Making him the oldest person to cross the line.
 
Honda looks at space
https://spacenews.com/japanese-carmaker-honda-developing-reusable-rocket-for-leo-satellites/

Satellites with wings...good mirrors
https://spacenews.com/how-low-can-satellites-go-vleo-entrepreneurs-plan-to-find-out/
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Hyperbolic_Mirrors_for_Earth_Observation_Satellites_999.html

Balloons
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/10/15/...round-to-expand-high-altitude-balloon-travel/
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/10/16/...rket-to-take-passengers-to-the-edge-of-space/

Hydrogen observer craft--cool design
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/10/12/contract-secures-build-for-hydrognss-scout-mission/

Old space film
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The RL-10
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=47446

Living optical fibers
https://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=58895.php
https://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=58857.php

Surface vehicle powered by light?
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Microscopic_metavehicles_powered_by_nothing_but_light_999.html
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This is really interesting
https://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=58913.php
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26007-2

A research team from the University at Buffalo, the University of Maryland, and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, wanted to know if these two dissimilar materials – molecular energetic materials and ferroelectrics – can somehow be combined to obtain a chemically driven electrical energy source with high-power density. Such a power source could potentially be employed for on-demand energy sources, propulsion, or thermal batteries....n a paper in Nature Communications ("Chemically driven energetic molecular ferroelectrics"), they report that two dissimilar materials, molecular energetic materials and ferroelectrics, can be integrated together to obtain chemically driven electrical energy with a high specific power of 1.8 kW/kg and achieve an estimated detonation velocity of 7.20 ± 0.27 km/s, comparable to trinitrotoluene (TNT) and hexanitrostilbene (HNS).

Here is an LV calculator
https://launchercalculator.com
 
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Starship as Lunar Base
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x1ujpGR43BbIr6Bp_hEzYuVFCCp-hYGo/view
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=55064.0

SLS and Starship together for deep space exploration craft:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210021084
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=55031.0

SLS commercialized
https://www.spacescout.info/2021/10/long-term-future-sls/

British Space milestone:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/10/50th-anniversary-black-arrow/

How Soyuz works
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https://www.roscosmos.ru/33126/
 
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Dan Goldin at Stratolaunch?
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/11/02/...tive-kamiar-karimi-to-its-board-of-directors/ :barf:

Skyroot LVs
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/11/01/skyroot-aerospace-signs-launch-contract-eyes-40-million-raise/

Astra
https://spacenews.com/astra-says-fo...iles-application-for-satellite-constellation/

Looks like Bezos tried to shake down Tom Hanks
https://www.space.com/tom-hanks-says-no-blue-origin-space-launch

And he lost his stupid lawsuit. Good
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/11/05/bezos-ends-challenge-to-nasa-lunar-lander-award-to-spacex/

And speaking of BO's dummies:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-mannequin-skywalker-exhibit

Blue's ambitions
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/10/31/...eavy-lift-launch-vehicle-and-engine-programs/
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/11/01/...and-launch-provider-for-prototype-satellites/

Oops
https://interestingengineering.com/...ourist-who-flew-with-william-shatner-has-died
https://interestingengineering.com/an-engineer-accidentally-got-hired-at-nasa

Now I have a different opinion on this:
https://www.space.com/brain-damage-long-duration-spaceflight

It might be that microgravity allows any disease markers to float more freely in the blood, as opposed to wallowing in and causing disease later? Microgravity as dialysis?

One more reason for ring stations.

Hydrogen storage
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-disorder-surface-materials-key-hydrogen.html

Healing carbon fiber
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-healable-carbon-fiber-composite-path.html
Assistant Professor Aniruddh Vashisth describes a new type of carbon fiber reinforced material that is as strong and light as traditionally used ones but can be repeatedly healed with heat, reversing any fatigue damage and providing a way to break it down and recycle it when it reaches the end of its life.

A call for space art
https://thespacereview.com/article/4272/1

A caged camera lands
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/10/31/...ed-lunar-landing-from-the-dusty-desert-floor/
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/10/30/nasa-tests-landing-pad-materials-for-future-lunar-missions/
Lunar drill
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/11/03/...nounce-landing-site-location-for-lunar-drill/

SpaceX to a trillion?
https://thespacereview.com/article/4275/1
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/...sformation-than-colonization-of-americas.html

One step at a time Elon
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-toilet-spacex-crew-stuck-diapers.html

What do we call space tourists?
https://thespacereview.com/article/4279/1

Space mutiny novel
https://thespacereview.com/article/4277/1

Cargo drop
http://parabolicarc.com/2021/11/07/spaceworks-latest-cargo-return-demo-offers-promise/

Child genius
https://interestingengineering.com/...to-college-at-12-and-wants-to-join-nasa-at-16

Spinlaunch
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/11/173736.html

Ion thruster
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-iodine-successfully-satellite-ion-thrusters.html

New rockets
https://interestingengineering.com/...iative-raised-65-million-for-reusable-rockets

https://phys.org/news/2021-12-moth-balls-satellites-space.html

New video of the chopper catch:
https://www.space.com/rocket-lab-helicopter-booster-catch-video

Bigger…
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3741/1

ARCA's new OTRAG
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Starliner
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Now at ISS
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-space-station-hatch-opening

Russia space
https://mobile.twitter.com/RussianS...nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=23160.560

Our trajectory
https://interestingengineering.com/video/floating-through-space

Falcon 9 impact
https://wonderfulengineering.com/sc...ing-a-falcon-9-rocket-affects-the-atmosphere/
 
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Virgin
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2022/06...phen-zhang-as-first-vp-of-investor-relations/

A second look at Dream Chaser?

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New space museum
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2022/06...nd-on-the-samuel-oschin-air-and-space-center/
https://www.space.com/nasa-documentary-black-space-explorers-juneteenth

Book on space marketing
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2022/05/26/book-unlocks-secrets-of-space-marketing/
 
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Looks like the the crater on the Moon left by a purported rocket body has been found
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-nasa-lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter-rocket.html

Current LVs
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/image...75902bd4607bbf919dd036477274aff65e8ef50d2.jpg
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Fission power contract.
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2022/06...5-million-for-fission-surface-power-solution/

Spaceplane news
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2022/06...reement-landing-site-dream-chaser-spaceplane/
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/spaceplane-technology-and-research-star.1103/#post-540996

Neutron
https://mobile.twitter.com/rocketlab360/status/1535970076901445633

LV round-up
http://parabolicarc.com/2022/08/06/launchapalooza-26-new-boosters-debuting-worldwide/

ESA and human spaceflight
https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/HRE/Terrae_Novae_2030+strategy_roadmap.pdf

Neutron
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https://www.universetoday.com/15710...cket-labs-reusable-neutron-rocket-could-work/

New player
https://www.vast.space/
 
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Virgin Galactic is now delaying the next Unity flight till spring 2023

at this rate Boeing Starliner may be flying passengers before them.
 
XCV330 said:
Virgin Galactic is now delaying the next Unity flight till spring 2023

at this rate Boeing Starliner may be flying passengers before them.
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Sadly, they seem to have nothing but bad news surrounding them these days. I'm much more excited by Virgin Orbit anyway - one of the few smallsat class launchers that's actually launching anything.
 
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Sadly, they seem to have nothing but bad news surrounding them these days. I'm much more excited by Virgin Orbit anyway - one of the few smallsat class launchers that's actually launching anything.
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Me too. I didn't really know if the air-launch thing could still be profitable after Orbital has mostly walked away from it. But it looks like they really are getting some
 
I do wonder how sustainable the smallsat launch market is, though. Even the companies that have working smallsat launchers are pivoting to larger vehicles.
 
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