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
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
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.
And he has this afternoon... BBC News - Star Trek's William Shatner blasts into space on Blue Origin rocket https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58885555 EDIT: Also, see this thread here on the BBS... https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/shatner-in-space.309263/
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 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 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
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 https://www.roscosmos.ru/33126/
Dan Goldin at Stratolaunch? http://parabolicarc.com/2021/11/02/...tive-kamiar-karimi-to-its-board-of-directors/ 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
Oh dear: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articl...meets-ula-atlas-rocket-in-launch-pad-look.htm https://spacenews.com/boeing-considering-redesign-of-starliner-valves/ It seems that in 2017, a subcontractor had to have his leg amputated… https://www.reuters.com/business/ae...ahead-starliner-spacecraft-launch-2022-05-11/ Pyrotechnics went off…Starliner went up…he and a bad ladder went down…. Starliner marked the return of the Apollo shape: http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-return-of-apollo-shape.html?m=1 Comparison Chart https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=56697.msg2385813#msg2385813
About that: https://mobile.twitter.com/joroulette/status/1524394155379769346?ref_src=twsrc^tfw Yikes. Fly Far…Fly True (on flight vehicles) https://www.spacedaily.com/m/reports/Fly_far_fly_true_999.html More: https://atpi.eventsair.com/far2022/ https://arc.aiaa.org/journal/jsr Starliner vs Dragon
Starliner 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/
Virgin http://www.parabolicarc.com/2022/06...phen-zhang-as-first-vp-of-investor-relations/ A second look at Dream Chaser? 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/
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 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 https://www.universetoday.com/15710...cket-labs-reusable-neutron-rocket-could-work/ New player https://www.vast.space/
Virgin Galactic is now delaying the next Unity flight till spring 2023 at this rate Boeing Starliner may be flying passengers before them.
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.
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.
China's start-ups are looking at spaceplanes http://www.parabolicarc.com/2022/08...s-seek-challenge-blue-origin-virgin-galactic/ Reminds me a bit of DLR's StarLiner concept... Proto-Buran https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...yom-lift-off-system-pre-energiya-buran.40522/ ROOST revisited http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2022/08/reusable-one-stage-orbital-space-truck.html?m=1