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Where will we be in space in 2049? A look at spaceflight over the next 25 years
https://www.space.com/spaceflight-evolution-next-25-years-moon-mars
Here's a look at a few of the big-picture spaceflight trends that seem set to unfold between now and 2049.
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Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' aerospace company, are human-spaceflight players as well, though they operate closer to the ground: Both companies have launched paying customers on short trips to suborbital space over the past few years.
And that's just the crewed side of private spaceflight. SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets currently carry satellites to orbit, as does Firefly Aerospace's Alpha, Rocket Lab's Electron, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur, Arianespace's Ariane 6 and Vega, and a handful of private Chinese vehicles.
The payload side is booming in an even bigger way, thanks to lower launch costs and advances in optics and electronics that have made it possible to build highly capable satellites cheaply, quickly and efficiently. San Francisco-based companies Planet and Capella Space operate their own constellations of Earth-observing satellites, for example, selling the imagery these craft collect (optical in Planet's case, and radar for Capella) to customers for a variety of purposes.
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"We went from single-digit space startups to thousands of space startups, with very little venture capital to billions in venture capital," said Kemmer, who co-founded the pioneering in-space manufacturing company Made In Space back in 2010. "It's already starting. I think it's gonna go exponential."
Then there are the coming heavy lifters. Blue Origin's partially reusable New Glenn rocket could lift off for the first time later this year, and SpaceX has already launched four test flights of the fully reusable Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built.
SpaceX is developing Starship — which is 400 feet (122 meters) tall in its current iteration, and could grow substantially larger — to get people and cargo to the moon, Mars and beyond. The company envisions the huge rocket flying incredibly frequently and efficiently, with per-launch costs as low as $2 million to $3 million. That price point would be truly revolutionary, allowing many more customers to get their payloads up. (For perspective: SpaceX currently charges about $67 million for each Falcon 9 mission.)
Rockets, both new and existing, will get better over the next 25 years as well, as things tend to do. And that rather prosaic observation shouldn't be discounted.
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This increased activity could make humanity's growing space junk problem even worse over the next quarter-century. Starlink, for example, could balloon to a mind-boggling 42,000 satellites in LEO. And that's just a single megaconstellation; Amazon plans to loft its own big broadband network, called Project Kuiper, and the Chinese company Hongqing Technology has designs on one as well.
Space junk is plenty worrisome right now; according to the European Space Agency (ESA), there are about 40,500 objects at least 4 inches (10 centimeters) wide zooming around Earth today, and about 130 million debris pieces between 0.04 inches and 0.4 inches (1 millimeter to 1 cm) in diameter.
Even those tiny shards could seriously damage a satellite or other spacecraft, given the tremendous speeds at which space objects travel. For example, the ISS, which orbits at an average altitude of 250 miles (400 kilometers), zips around our planet at about 17,500 mph (28,000 kph).
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China's rise is one of the biggest spaceflight stories of the past 25 years. In 2003, it became the third nation to launch people to orbit, after the Soviet Union and the United States. In 2022, China finished assembling its own space station, called Tiangong, and now regularly launches astronaut crews there for six-month stints.
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Kamala Harris will be replaced at the Convention later this month.
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Elon Musk slammed by Keir Starmer over claim 'civil war is inevitable' after UK riots
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-elon-musk-slammed-keir
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NASA will get it done or is NASA lost, behind schedule
Rocket delivered to launch site for first human flight to the Moon since 1972
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/rocket-delivered-to-launch-site-
for-first-human-flight-to-the-moon-since-1972/
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Naomi Seibt
https://x.com/SeibtNaomi/status/1820736543117525498
That aged like milk that was already rotten and now the mold is taking over the entire kitchen.
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https://x.com/SeibtNaomi/status/1820736543117525498
Keir Starmer
https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1809876856419561483
My government will restore politics as a force for good.
Let's get started.
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Avatar 3, Captain America Brave New World, 2025 Mission Impossible 8 Reckoning Part 2, ‘Zootopia 2’ , 2025 Michael, 2025 F1, Snow White, Fantastic Four will flop or not? There is also Superman reboot and Thunderbolts.
Fan 4 many predict a flop
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Avatar 3, Captain America Brave New World, 2025 Mission Impossible 8 Reckoning Part 2, ‘Zootopia 2’ , 2025 Michael, 2025 F1, Snow White, Fantastic Four will flop or not? There is also Superman reboot and Thunderbolts.
Fan 4 many predict a flop
Avatar 3 - Success. Not as big a success as A2 was though.
Captain America Brave New World - Huge flop
2025 Mission Impossible 8 Reckoning Part 2 - Flop *
‘Zootopia 2’ - Moderate success
2025 Michael - I have no idea what that is.
2025 F1 - I have no idea what that is.
Snow White - Mega flop
Fantastic Four - Moderate flop
Superman - Moderate flop
Thunderbolts - Moderate flop
* MI P2 is a flop assuming the budget was the same as the Part 1. They were both shot at the same time and the first part's budget was insane. I'm just waiting for them to come out with Part 2 and claim it only cost $1 to shoot and they put all the costs on part 1 for tax purposes. If that budget is anywhere close to Part 1's budget this movie is dead before it hits theaters.
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Darpa and corporate secrets and military projects tech slowly released to the public?
future's here... just not evenly distributed, holding back on AI tech, mini-Reactors for small towns or in space? ship monopoly, energy monopoly, big pharma, computer oligarchy, possessors monopoly, flying cars could be real since they admit tic-tac ufos are real, energy seems to be similar holding back Thorium etc.
Transport high speed trains inside special high speed tunnels, they might exist on Mars before the USA or other places...China is investing.
Biology Nano-tech, Cyborg limbs, CRISPR allows medical advances right out of science fiction and as such, clones and engineered animals and people, chips in the brain.
Business giving someone cash e-transfers its allowed in some places Venmo or just use our regular banking app... and the West invents stuff a new idea it goes to Asia...Japan mass produces an idea the West did not build or make commercial and Japanese had cheap smart phones back in the mid 90s it took an age for companies to release them in the West.
'Breakthrough flexible solar panels are so thin they can be printed on any surface – even backpacks'
https://www.techspot.com/news/104207-breakthrough-flexible-solar-panel
s-thin-they-can-printed.html
American Science is in Dangerous Decline while Chinese Research Surges, Experts Warn
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/american-science-is-in-dang
erous-decline-while-chinese-research-surges/
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2025 Michael - I have no idea what that is.
2025 F1 - I have no idea what that is.
'MJ' Pop star Michael Jackson
Racing, those skinny cars in Europe, Asia South, America, looks like Indy 500
Compare them to?....That Taylor Swift thing, Purple Rain, Walk the Line, Jimi Hendrix All Is By My Side , Rocketman, Whats Love Got to Do With It, This is It
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Senna, Days Of Thunder, Rush, Gran Turismo, Gone in 60 Seconds remake or was it made again since? Speed Racer, Fast and Furious franchise, Driven
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
2025 Michael - I have no idea what that is.
2025 F1 - I have no idea what that is.
'MJ' Pop star Michael Jackson
Racing, those skinny cars in Europe, Asia South, America, looks like Indy 500
Compare them to?....That Taylor Swift thing, Purple Rain, Walk the Line, Jimi Hendrix All Is By My Side , Rocketman, Whats Love Got to Do With It, This is It
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Senna, Days Of Thunder, Rush, Gran Turismo, Gone in 60 Seconds remake or was it made again since? Speed Racer, Fast and Furious franchise, Driven
In that case, I can't speak on it until we get budget numbers.
My other predictions were based off of the obscene budgets we're used to seeing for those types of movies.
Unless the Jackson budget was obscene, that one should make bank.
F1? Is it a documentary type movie with a low budget? Days of Thunder was a box office disaster. So was Gran Turismo. I have no idea about this one.
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