All things Space
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Longshot is Gunning For Kinetic Space Launch
https://payloadspace.com/longshot-is-gunning-for-kinetic-space-launch/
Scott Manley
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NASA is ending interstellar exploration
https://nasawatch.com/exploration/nasa-is-ending-interstellar-explorat
ion/
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The Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-most-massive-black-hole-mer
ger-ever
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'NASA is under attack.' Space agency employees and lawmakers protest mass layoffs, science cuts amid budget turmoil
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-is-under-attack-space-age
ncy-employees-and-lawmakers-protest-mass-layoffs-science-cuts-amid-budget-turmoil
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The James Webb Telescope may have found primordial black holes
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-james-webb-telescope-ma
y-have-found-primordial-black-holes/
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36-mile-long cigar-shaped starship could take humans on first interstellar trip
A bold new step for humanity could be a journey not to the Moon or Mars, but to an entirely new star system.
This is the Chrysalis Project, an award-winning design for a hypothetical starship that could carry up to 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri—our closest stellar neighbor.
The ultimate goal would be to reach and settle on the potentially habitable exoplanet Proxima Centauri b.
However, the one-way trip would reportedly take around 400 years due to the immense distance.
Because of the incredible duration, many of the passengers would live their entire lives aboard the spacecraft without ever knowing what life on our planet is like.
The sci-fi-like project took home the top prize in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a contest for designing hypothetical multigenerational ships for venturing into deep space.
“The generational spaceship Chrysalis is named after the intriguing possibility of having a spaceship capable of keeping its inhabitants safe and united, generation after generation, until they arrive in the new solar system,” the mission pitch noted.
Multi-generational ship with all facilities
The proposed “cigar-shaped,” multi-generational ship would roughly measure around 36 miles (58 km). Constant rotation would create artificial gravity, allowing life to thrive inside it.
Before the journey, the first generations of passengers would live in an isolated environment in Antarctica for 70 to 80 years to prepare for life on the ship.
As per the pitch deck, the Chrysalis spacecraft is planned to be built at the L1 Lagrangian point of the Earth-Moon system. This location is ideal because it may allow the project to access the Moon and Earth resources.
“L1 is also ideal as a launch point for a massive spacecraft several kilometres in length, to avoid the stresses caused by differential gravitational effects on the structure when placed in orbit too close to the Earth or Moon,” it explained.
Designed like a Russian nesting doll, the giant spacecraft would be a complete ecosystem with different layers.
At its core, it’s a series of self-contained worlds, each with a specific purpose.
It would have spaces for farms, gardens, homes, warehouses, and other shared facilities, each powered by nuclear fusion reactors.
In the innermost core, shuttles wait, ready to deliver passengers to their final destination: Proxima Centauri b.
The next layer will be about survival. Here, food production is a science, with controlled environments that could nurture everything from crops to livestock. The designers even included different biomes, like tropical and boreal forests, for potential preservation of biodiversity.
Beyond that, it would also host the heart of the community: parks, schools, hospitals, and libraries.
The outer shells house the homes, industries, and warehouses.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/36-mile-long-cigar-shaped-st
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Oldest Rock on Earth Is Older Than Earth Itself
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Fred Haise survives today, Jack Swigert died in 1982
Astronaut Jim Lovell on the Apollo 13 Explosion
Oral History: James Lovell
ESA's Hera mission
https://x.com/ESA_Hera/status/1953078287858581509
Asteroid (18805) Kellyday
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Demands for Space and Expansion
Canada's 1st commercial spaceport is officially under construction. When will it open for launches?
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/canadas-1s
t-commercial-spaceport-is-officially-under-construction-when-will-it-open-for-launches
BBC Meet the Cosmologists 1963
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Astronomers discover new type of supernova triggered by black hole-star interaction
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-astronomers-supernova-triggered-black-ho
le.html
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