Archive for the ‘space travel’ category: Page 107
Jan 25, 2023
The Death of Death during the coming #DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival in Israel. Top news at #i24
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, economics, engineering, singularity, space travel, transhumanism
José Cordeiro, PhD, talking about his international bestseller “The Death of Death” during the coming DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival in Israel. Top news at i24 news discussing about aging as the “mother” of all chronic diseases!
José Cordeiro is an international fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, vicechair of HumanityPlus, director of The Millennium Project, founding faculty at Singularity University in NASA Research Park, Silicon Valley, and former director of the Club of Rome (Venezuela Chapter), the World Transhumanist Association and the Extropy Institute.
Jan 24, 2023
Margaret Hamilton: Pioneering Software Engineer Who Saved the Moon Landing
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: engineering, space travel
We might all have been in a situation where we had to put our trust in our work to hold up and do what it needed to do, but Margaret Hamilton’s work was particularly important — it was responsible for putting Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon in July 1969.
When warning lights started going off in the middle of the Eagle module’s descent toward the lunar surface, NASA faced a tough decision: continue with the landing or abort.
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Jan 24, 2023
With Starship testing, SpaceX moves one step closer to making science fiction a reality
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
SpaceX is poised to conduct a wet dress rehearsal of the Starship launch system from its Starbase site in southeastern Texas, a major milestone in CEO Elon Musk’s quest to turn long-haul interplanetary transportation from science fiction to reality.
It’s the strongest signal yet that Starship’s first orbital flight test could well and truly be imminent. The wet dress is a critical series of prelaunch tests that includes propellant loading of both the upper stage and booster, and a run-through of countdown to around T-10 seconds, or just before engine ignition. If no major issues crop up during the testing, the next step would be “de-stacking,” or the separation of the Starship second stage and Super Heavy booster. That would be followed by a full static fire test, where engineers would light up all 33 of the booster’s Raptor 2 engines. The launch system would then be re-stacked before the first orbital flight test.
This could all take place in a matter of weeks — March is not off the table for the orbital flight test — but that’s assuming that everything goes well and no major mishaps take place (they’re not unheard of). It also assumes that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, the body that regulates commercial launches, issues SpaceX the all-important launch license fairly soon. The FAA has been basically mum about the status of its evaluation of SpaceX’s plans, though it’s been conducting extensive assessments of the Starship launch program for some time.
Jan 22, 2023
SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket could soar to orbit as soon as next month
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
Elon Musk said the private space firm has “a real shot at late February” for the orbital launch of Starship.
We might finally see SpaceX’s Starship soar to orbit next month. SpaceX’s orbital launch of its fully reusable Starship rocket is arguably the most exciting upcoming space mission of the year. And we may not have to wait very long to see it take to the skies.
Starship could fly to orbit for the first time as soon as late February, though March is more likely, according to an update from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk via Twitter.
Jan 20, 2023
What Constitutes Real Starships?
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: cosmology, space travel
Papers:
Black Hole Energy.
Penrose process for a charged black hole in a uniform.
magnetic field https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.15010.pdf.
Jan 19, 2023
SpaceX Dragon capsule to be 5-person ‘lifeboat’ in event of ISS emergency
Posted by Paul Battista in category: space travel
A SpaceX Dragon capsule is being modified on orbit to carry an extra astronaut home to Earth if need be.
On Wednesday (Jan. 18), NASA plans to start moving agency astronaut Frank Rubio’s seat liner from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft over to Endurance, the Dragon spacecraft that’s flying SpaceX’s ongoing Crew-5 mission for NASA.
Jan 19, 2023
NASA modifies SpaceX’s in-orbit Crew-5 capsule for emergency use
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: space travel
The new modification was made following a coolant leak in a Russian Soyuz rocket attached to the International Space Station.
NASA modified the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance capsule, which is currently attached to the International Space Station (ISS).
The crew capsule now features another seat and can carry one more NASA astronaut than was originally intended, a NASA blog post reveals.
Jan 15, 2023
Can we suck the water out of asteroids? New research may solve one obstacle
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in categories: materials, space travel
We’ve still got a long way to go.
Scientists found that solar sails, not rockets, could be the best option to return materials mined from asteroids back to Earth.
Jan 15, 2023
Texas-based 3D printing company teaming up with NASA to put buildings on the moon
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: 3D printing, habitats, robotics/AI, space travel
Through a $57 million contract with NASA, ICON, a company out of Austin, is working to do just that. ICON wants to put a broad spectrum of infrastructure on the moon, which isn’t the easiest place to build.
“First of all, you need to be able to protect the astronauts from the lunar environment which is really a nasty place to live and work. Vacuumed environment, extreme temperature swings, radiation environment, micro-meteoroids, dust protection,” Clinton said. “To produce things like landing pads and roads and blast shields and shelters and habitats.”
