Reviewing Space developments in 2016 and the next big future in space
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This is one of the Nextbigfuture article series reviewing developments in 2016 and looking ahead to developments over the next few years.
A glitzy reveal years in the making, included a description of architecture that could eventually ferry more than 100 to the red planet on each expedition, and thousands if SpaceX and its partners could muster support to build a fleet of boosters and
A Russian airline entrepreneur wants to join the space race, challenging Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin LLC with a plan to launch commercial rockets.
There's gold in them thar asteroids – also iron, nickel, copper and, most valuable of all, water.
Virgin Galactic announced a contract for four launches of satellites for a planned communications constellation.
Congratulations
But size isn't everything
Vladimir Putin wants work to begin on a new 'super-heavy' space rocket Rocket would enable construction of a lunar base, Moscow has claimed Ambitious plan was unveiled by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin
New technology could use X-rays to transmit data at high rates over vast distances in outer space, as well as enable communications with hypersonic vehicles during re-entry, when radio communications are impossible, NASA scientists say.
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined.
Getting into space is hard – so much so that, nearly 50 years after we put a man on the Moon, there are still only a handful of nations with the funds and technical capabilities to launch rockets into orbit and beyond.
It's more complicated than you might think
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space firm has confirmed that it is still on schedule to send paying customers into orbit as soon as 2018.
AN ENGINELESS AIRCRAFT REACHING THE EDGE OF SPACE
Landing humans on Mars would be a momentous event in human history. To live beyond Earth's biosphere is a dream to many, but establishing a sustainable presence on the Red Planet will require mastering its environment.
Forget gilded mansions and super yachts. Among the tech elite, space exploration is now the ultimate status symbol
Elon Musk Explains Raptor Engine at IAC Congress Mexico. Raptor engine test included. September 26 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk twitted: "SpaceX propulsion just achieved first firing of the Raptor interplanetary transport engine"
The Spacex Raptor engines are a family of cryogenic, methane-fueled, rocket engines.
Dr. Chen Yue, Director of Commercial Satellite Technology for the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) announced on December 10, 2016 that not only has China successfully tested EmDrives technology in its laboratories, but that a proof-of-concept
Advances in robotics and additive manufacturing (3D printing) technologies are game-changing for space colonization.
Six new mysterious blasts of radio energy are detected from deep space
Something's happening inside it.
The addition of Charles Miller to the NASA "landing party" bodes well for private space companies
The first pioneers on Mars may build their homes using the ice beneath their feet.
NASA has hosted a "Space Poop Challenge" that calls for the public to devise an in-suit waste management system that will make astronauts' lives easier. A $30,000 cash reward awaits the winner/s of the challenge.
from the quantum vacuum, using no moving parts and producing no exhaust. (NaturalNews) I'm a fan of physicist Richard Feynman, and one of his most memorable quotes explains that "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts."
n Thursday morning at 8:37 AM EST, NASA successfully launched the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS), a constellation of eight hurricane-watching satellites, from a rocket strapped to the underside of an airplane.
Today, SpaceX filed with the FCC to obtain the rights to operate 4,400 satellites to offer internet services from orbit, a plan that was announced last year.
Existing covered areas and domes on Earth are in the 30-40 acre ranges and with costs of $400 million to 1 billion.
Gerald Black - Nuclear Fusion is the solution to energy problems and to advance space propulsion