SpaceX's First Falcon Heavy Rocket to Launch 4th Electric Car to Leave Earth
February 6, 2018
From Space.com:
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX is poised to make history by launching the world's fourth electric car into space.
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Asgardia, the world's first 'space nation', takes flight
January 23, 2018
From CNN style:
The biggest rocket launches and space missions we’re looking forward to in 2018
January 2, 2018
From The Verge:
Next year is already overflowing with exciting missions to space. NASA is launching a new lander to Mars, as well as a spacecraft that will get closer to the Sun than ever before. And two of NASA’s vehicles already in space will finally arrive at their intended targets: one will rendezvous with a nearby asteroid, while another will pass by a distant space rock billions of miles from Earth.
Uber in deal with NASA to build flying taxi air control software
November 10, 2017
From Rueters:
LISBON (Reuters) - Uber is taking part in a joint industry and government push with NASA to develop software which the company aims to use to manage “flying taxi” routes that could work like ride-hailing services it has popularized on the ground.
Uber said on Wednesday it was the first formal services contract by the U.S. National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) covering low-altitude airspace rather than outer space. NASA has used such contracts to develop rockets since the late 1950s.
Applications V.1
September 25, 2017
There are a lot of interesting and innovative applications surfacing worldwide, therefore we want to take a moment to dedicate periodic posts highlighting our Applications page. In this weeks edition we link to articles covering how 5G data speeds will help evolve the medical industry; the first nanosatellite to beam a smarthphone call from space; wireless enabled clothing and wearable biometric rings to help replace passwords, keys, and credit cards; and how airplanes are turning into communications satellites.
Cassini's Saturn Mission Goes Out In A Blaze Of Glory
September 15, 2017
From NPR:
Controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a final command Friday morning to the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn. Not long after, accounting for the vast distance the message traveled, the order was received, putting the craft into a suicidal swan dive in which it plummeted into the ringed planet's atmosphere.
NASA starts wind tunnel tests for its quiet supersonic jet
August 8, 2017
From Engadget:
NASA's plans for a quiet supersonic jet, the QueSST, just became tangible: the agency and Lockheed Martin have started wind tunnel tests for the future X-plane. It's a scale model at this stage, but it will be subjected to winds as high as Mach 1.6 (950MPH) to gauge both its aerodynamic performance as well as parts of its propulsion system. The tests should run until the middle of 2017.
next generation rockets preparing for blast off
July 24, 2017
From the Los Angeles Times:
It’s been 44 years since the mighty Saturn V last thundered skyward from a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The towering rocket, generating enough power to lift 269,000 pounds into orbit, had been the workhorse of the Apollo moon missions.
The race to space with private funding as the new seeds
October 21, 2016Billionaires putting their money where their mouth is - nothing new, but commercializing space could be. Guys like Elon Musk, Sir Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos are all competing by who has the coolest company and space vehicle. This seems like a great story for healthy competition in space exploration however. Check it out for yourself...
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