Tag: space
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Elon Musk thinks it would take 1,000 rockets 20 years to set up a self-sustaining city on Mars
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted some maths for how long he believes it’d take SpaceX to transfer the substances to Mars to create a city. Musk said it might take 1,000 of SpaceX’s Starship rockets 20 years. Musk has a history of bombastic claims regarding his expects to overthrow Mars, once outlining a…
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SpaceX’s spacefaring Tesla Roadster has made a full trip around the Sun
A mannequin wearing a SpaceX spacesuit and forcing a cherry red Tesla Roadster that formerly belonged to Elon Musk is currently observing its first trip around the Sun. The foolish “Starman” and Roadster combo was launched annually aboard the very first Falcon Heavy test flight from Kennedy Space Center, and has now completed a complete…
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Is Indian space commerce ready for lift-off?- BBC News
It’s been 50 years since the human race first set foot on the Moon. And since the United States observes the historic Apollo 11 mission, India is hoping to attain another space feat. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now currently trying to soft-land a rover about the south pole of the Moon –…
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SpaceX Launched a Massive Rocket With 24 Satellites On Board
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX established its heftiest rocket together with 24 research satellites Tuesday, a middle-of-the-night rideshare featuring a deep distance nuclear clock, solar sail, a clean and green rocket gas testbed, and even individual ashes. It was the next flight of a Falcon Heavy rocket, but also the very first dictated by the…
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Relativity is building a 3D-printing rocket manufacturing hub in Mississippi
The potential of rocket manufacturing has touched down in Mississippi. At NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, Situated in Hancock County, Miss., directly on the border of Louisiana, the Los Angeles-based 3D-printed spacecraft manufacturer, Relativity Space, will be going for a massive $59 million growth to create a permanent manufacturing hub in this bucolic corner…
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What If We Gave Up on the Stars?
In the middle of the night, the view from the rooftop of my eight-story building is bursting with light. The bright beams of passing cars throw luminous tracks across the pavement, and the windows of homes and offices, restaurants and shops, glow gold even from miles away. The Washington Monument cuts the night sky like…
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Elon Musk shows us the 60 satellites that will one day help power a better internet
The first seeds of SpaceX's Starlink project will shortly be planted.On Saturday, Elon Musk tweeted a photo of 60 satellites packed into the fairing, or nose cone, of his company's Falcon rocket. The hardware represents a first step toward finishing Starlink, an eventual satellite constellation which will beam high-speed net down to Earth from space.The…
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SpaceX nails triple booster landing – BBC News
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying a satellite into orbit for Saudi Arabian company Arabsat. As well as having its first commercial payload, it was also the first time the three lower boosters of the rocket returned to Earth successfully. The rocket is part of a growing…
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Startup fined $900k for launching illegal satellites, points to future space law challenges
Swarm Technologies, Inc., a satellite startup aiming to make the planet ’s lowest-cost satellite community, was fined $900,000 by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for illegally launch and deploying four unauthorized satellites into orbit in January 2018 on a business Indian satellite launch vehicle. The tanks in question were Swarm’s SpaceBEE vehicles, and that…
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SpaceX is building a ‘test hopper’ Mars spaceship in Texas — and Elon Musk says it could launch by March
Chris Carlson/AP Elon Musk stated SpaceX is constructing a”test hopper” automobile in Texas that could launch by March or even April. The automobile is a squat variation of a full sized Starship spaceship — just one that is being designed to reach Mars as part of their Big Falcon Rocket system. Photos taken by locals…