All things Space
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A new space telescope JWST continues to take great data and pictures from the universe, Hubble still works but Musk Starlink satellites are blocking its photos
I think Europe and Japan might still do something, India said it would do some manned flight and Space is one of the few places where Russia and the USA still communicate and they plan to put an ISS type station around the Moon?
NASA launched a new big rocket but the public seems mostly uninspired. Space Launch System or SLS launched, Bush junior, the George W. Bush goal of Moon and Mars maybe the vision for the Moon and Mars was conceived as a response to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Obama and Trump added their own modification, some say it was originally like the Initiative was a 1989 a public policy by Bush senior, the George H. W. Bush administration.
It was not without critics.
Buzz Aldrin voiced criticism for NASA's vision and objectives, stating that the goal of sending astronauts back to the Moon was "more like reaching for past glory than striving for new triumphs".
https://web.archive.org/web/20090723144904/http://www.nytimes.com/2003
/12/05/opinion/05ALDR.html
We had an ongoing PirateNews gossip thread New NASA Rocket can't fly but that was a slightly different era, Shuttle derived Ares V formerly known as the Cargo Launch Vehicle or CaLV
in the mean time, all these visions for NASA a new guy Musk came along and his rockets started to work
NASA has a big rocket that finally works and I'm not sure why it does not inspire, maybe its the Moon, been there done that or maybe they lack talkers and leaders, JFK, von Braun showing off his Moon base and Mars base models.
China has passed Russia's tech by a lot, it is probably the only other nation / group that could one day do everything NASA can but Elon Musk has show another commercial way to grow the private industry.
They say Rockets might one day be 3-d printed and maybe Robotic people and AI will conquer before man
'Relativity Space' Aborts Second Launch Attempt of Its 3D-Printed Rocket
https://www.wired.com/story/the-worlds-first-3d-printed-rocket-is-abou
t-to-launch-relativity-space/ , https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/03/11/1724209/relativity-space-
aborts-second-launch-attempt-of-its-3d-printed-rocket
'Look out, Starship! China is Building a Massive Reusable Rocket!'
https://www.universetoday.com/160448/look-out-starship-china-is-buildi
ng-a-massive-reusable-rocket/
For years, China has been dropping hints about its Long March 9 (CZ-9) rocket, a three-stage super-heavy variant of the Long March family. This launch vehicle will reportedly be capable of transporting up to 150,000 kg (165 tons) to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and 54,000 kg (59.5 tons) to a trans-lunar injection. On March 2nd, the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) announced (via the Chinese social media platform Weixin) that it had finished building the first propellant tank for the CZ-9.
The news was accompanied by pictures that showed the finished tank and the many components that went into making it – and they are massive!
Why space exploration is always worthwhile
https://www.planetary.org/articles/space-exploration-is-always-worthwh
ile
Newly Discovered Asteroid Has a '1 In 560 Chance' of Hitting Earth In 2046
https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/03/10/002239/newly-discovered-as
teroid-has-a-1-in-560-chance-of-hitting-earth-in-2046
Cosmonaut Stranded on Mir in 1991 Now Heads Rescue Mission to ISS
https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/03/06/0030204/cosmonaut-stranded
-on-mir-in-1991-now-heads-rescue-mission-to-iss
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Splash Down Near Florida Coast, Safe on Earth
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-spacex-crew-5-splash-down-ne
ar-florida-coast-safe-on-earth
Japanese Astronomer Captures Telltale Flash After Meteorite Crashes Into Moon: Watch
https://www.republicworld.com/science/space/japanese-astronomer-captur
es-telltale-flash-after-meteorite-crashes-into-moon-watch-article
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The Biden / Trump military wing called 'Space Force' now has a budget bigger than NASA's entire budget
Space Force Requests $30 Billion for FY2024, Embracing Resilient Architectures
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/space-force-requests-30-billion-for
-fy2024-embracing-resilient-architectures/
DOD’s FY2024 budget request includes $30 billion for the U.S. Space Force, about $4 billion more than FY2023. The request supports the Space Force’s embrace of profilerated constellations of many small satellites in various low and medium orbits instead of a few large satellites in geostationary orbit that are easier for adversaries to target — what DOD officials call a “resilient architecture.”
NASA's budget was $24.04 billion for fiscal year (FY) 2022
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SpaceX is ready to launch Starship in a few weeks!? Will all the new upgrades hold?
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Not all will be taken by Anti-Musk propaganda, he puts all kind of payload and peoples in space
Musk an engineer and South African, is grounded in some kind of creative insanity and common sense, the Starship should hold better than Reginald Denny's skull during the LA Riots
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Russia’s loss of billions of dollars on rocket business to SpaceX & Elon Musk...
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Virgin Orbit: Richard Branson's rocket firm files for bankruptcy
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65172594
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China has carried out the first test of a Stirling Engine in space. NASA too is investigating Stirling Engines, which may be used to power deep space exploration or Lunar/Martian bases
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-china-stirling-orbit.html
Stirling engines aren't new tech. They were invented in Scotland in 1816.
A Stirling engine is a heat engine operating by cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas, the "working fluid", at different temperature levels such that there is a net conversion of heat to mechanical work
Their big advantage is that they are among the most efficient engines, in some design approaching the maximum efficiency possible. The downside is that they are complex with many moving parts. NASA has been investigating them as part of a Radioisotope Power System. These use the heat generated by the radioactive decay of elements like plutonium.
It would be interesting to know what China is developing them for. The two likeliest possibilities are engines for deep space exploration or China's proposed Lunar Base.
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Kessler syndrome the collisional cascading Kessler effect?
Satellite trash
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New Zealander without college degree couldn’t talk his way into NASA and Boeing—so he built a $1.8 billion rocket company
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/how-rocket-lab-ceo-peter-beck-built-mu
ltibillion-dollar-company.html
South Korea plans to conduct its first launch of a commercial-grade satellite aboard a domestically built rocket next month as part of its space development program
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/korea-conduct-1st-launch-c
ommercial-grade-satellite-98493737
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Musk says SpaceX Starship rocket launch slipping to later in April
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-spacex-starship-rocket-la
unch-slipping-later-april-2023-04-10/
Astronomers have directly detected a massive exoplanet. The method could transform the search for life beyond Earth
https://theconversation.com/astronomers-have-directly-detected-a-massi
ve-exoplanet-the-method-could-transform-the-search-for-life-beyond-earth-203752
'In Five Years, China Will Start Building a Lunar Base With Bricks Made From Moon Soil'
https://time.com/6270882/china-moon-base-timeline/
Wobbling Star Found In Gaia-Hipparcos Data Confirmed To Host An Exoplanet
https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/wobbling-star-found-in-ga
ia-hipparcos-data-confirmed-to-host-an-exoplanet/
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