Space used to be a place occupied by government-funded and military missions, but today, we’re seeing the rise… and fall of missions with commercial design and funding. Let’s talk about how this is good, bad, and maybe just too soon.
Today, we’re dedicating majority of the show for: SpaceX’s failure to follow rules, regulations, & norms of international spaceflight.
With SpaceX leading the way in commercial spaceflight and Virgin Galactic offering an alternative, how about Blue Origin?
This week… there was a far too much news problem, the last flight of Virgin Galactic’s Unity suborbital spacecraft, the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule to the ISS, a more successful launch test of SpaceX’s massive starship, the successful landing, loading, and liftoff of Chang’e 6 at the Moon, and… the beginning of the end for the HST as it shifted into single gyro operations.
Today’s Travelers in the Night talk about SpaceX developing a new (methalox) engine called Raptor and meteoroids come from comets which have passed near Earth as long as 4000 years ago.
We take a look at the reasons why there are no human footprints on the surface of Mars. SpaceX have also had plans of their own to get to the Red Planet.
Time for weekly news update with @wshcrew. The team will discuss about Artemis mission, Cubesats flew with the Artemis mission, China in space, also Lunar Flashlight / Hakuto-R / Rashid Rover. #365DaysOfAstro
Astroseismologists are combining data from TESS, Kepler, and eventually JWST to study stellar oscillations in ‘infant’ stars, with the goal of creating new models for how such young stars form and evolve over time
Time for space exploration news with @AwesomeAstroPod. We have Perseids meteor shower, NASA going back to the Moon, news from ISS. Also what would we like to see happen to the ISS instead of being deorbited? More at #365DaysOfAstro
In order to really survive and thrive in space, we’ve got to learn to live off the land, to acquire the resources in space that will allow us to survive… in space. We’ve got to learn to turn those raw materials into forms we need: fuel, breathable air, water, construction materials, and eventually even finished goods like rocket parts and electronics.