The 2017 Caltech Space Challenge will see students design a Moon base for...
• http://tech.firstpost.com, By tech2 News StaffThe 2017 Caltech Space Challenge will see students design a Moon base for deep space exploration
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Mach Effects for In Space Propulsion: Interstellar Mission
• http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangNextbigfuture has covered Woodwards Mach effect propulsion in dozens of articles.
Chinese Space Program: China Brings Electric Propulsion To Satellites With Ion Thruster
• http://www.ibtimes.com, BY HIMANSHU GOENKAChina launched its newest communications satellite, Shijian-13, on Wednesday.
Imploding Liner Fusion Propulsion System
• http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangIt is an innovative modification to magneto-inertial fusion is proposed in which the pulsed, high current magnetic field coil and stationary central fuel target are replaced with a fast moving fusion fuel target fired axially into a static, high grad
NASA is working on a 'vacuum airship' for Mars missions (and 22 other bonkers ideas)
• http://metro.co.uk, Rob WaughIt sounds like something out of science fiction – a vacuum airship filled with empty space, which will soar above the thin atmosphere of Mars.
No Bathrooms, No Barf Bags:
• space.com.What Blue Origin's Space Tourists Can Expect
Rumours the US Military Is Testing an EM Drive on the X-37B Space Plane Just Won't Die
• http://www.sciencealert.com, FIONA MACDONALDEveryone chill.
NASA finds more evidence that the ocean on Enceladus could support alien life
• http://www.theverge.com, by Loren GrushHydrothermal activity on the moon's sea floor could have the right stuff for microbes to thrive
Nearly all the elements needed for life found on Saturn's moon
• usatoday.com by Traci WatsonScientists have found a potential food source for life on a world in our solar system, raising the tantalizing possibility that organisms could thrive in a place besides Earth.
Trump's Transition Team Asked NASA About Surveying the Moon for Valuable Resources
• https://motherboard.vice.comInternal communications between NASA and Trump's transition team, obtained by a Motherboard FOIA, show the new administration is also interested in how the agency's research helps private industry.
Scientists Think Earth Is Spewing Up the Deepest Traces of Life Ever Found
• http://www.sciencealert.com, PETER DOCKRILLLife from below the Mariana Trench.
Spacex targets 100% reusable rocket by end of 2018
• http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangElon Musk believes that by the end of 2018 Spacex will be able to get to 100% reusable rockets.
Russia's Quest to Build a Space Empire--or Go Broke Trying
• https://www.wired.com, SARAH SCOLESIT'S NOT UNUSUAL for space agencies to wax lyrical about how their work exploring all that lies beyond Earth's atmosphere is for the shared benefit of humankind. It's probably expected.
'Out Of This World' - NASA's Budget Is Without Parallel
• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenThe budget afforded NASA is far and away the largest on earth...
Jeff Bezos: The Future Of Mankind Lies In Escape To Outer Space
• https://www.technocracy.news, By: Andy PasztorTechnocrats and Transhumans alike see the future of man in the galaxies, rather than on earth. Both Bezos and Elon Musk, among other tech elites, want to colonize the moon as well as Mars. ? TN Editor
Atmosphere found around Earth-like planet GJ 1132b
• http://www.bbc.com, By Rebecca MorelleScientists say they have detected an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet for the first time.
Goldman Sachs says mining platinum from asteroids is a 'realistic' way for...
• https://www.thesun.co, by Jasper HamillGoldman Sachs says mining platinum from asteroids is a 'realistic' way for bankers to earn BILLIONS
World Second richest man investing one billion per year in his reusable rocket company
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comJeff Bezos wants to see the space industry expand to the scale of today's internet industry, creating a "completely new world."
Bigelow Space stations
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comNASA currently is pushing forward plans for a cislunar base that is similar in size to the Skylab space station of the 1970s.
In push to normalize space domain, Air Force adds new three-star position
• http://www.defensenews.comCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Change is coming to the Air Force's space enterprise, starting with the creation of a new three-star position on the Air Staff that will help enhance the visibility of space issues in the Pentagon.
Disruptive space technologies from Aerojet Rocketdyne include a 200 kilowatt...
• http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangDisruptive space technologies from Aerojet Rocketdyne include a 200 kilowatt electric thruster with about 2000 ISP
Planet wide millimeter radio telescope array now has ten times the resolution
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comA powerful new array of radio telescopes is being deployed for the first time this week, as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile joins a global network of antennas poised to make some of the highest resolution images that
Continued claims that the EMDrive is being tested on the X-37B
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comIn November 2016 the International Business Times claimed the U.S. government was testing a version of the EmDrive on the Boeing X-37B and that the Chinese government has made plans to incorporate the EmDrive on its orbital space laboratory Tiangong-
Elon Musk: "If There Are Super Intelligent Alients, They're Probably Already Observing Us&q
• http://www.trueactivist.com"Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. . . . We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time. . . . I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and
Boeing reveals 'Deep Space Gateway' that humans will use as stepping stone to MARS
• mirror.co.uk by Jeff ParsonsThe space habitat would be used as a waypoint for astronauts on their way to the red planet
Boeing reveals 'Deep Space Gateway' that humans will use as stepping stone to MARS
• http://www.mirror.co.ukBoeing has taken the wraps off a new type of spaceship that could act as a half-way-house between Earth and Mars .
The factories of the future could float in space
• popsci.com By Andrew RosenblumOrbital manufacturing is already paving the way for better solar panels, faster internet, cleaner computer chips, and lab-grown human hearts
Are aliens trying to contact Earth?
• http://www.dailymail.co, By DAISY DUNNEMysterious energy signals really ARE coming from space, confirm scientists
Elon Musk confident Spacex can achieve at least 100-fold reduction in the cost of space access
• http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangElon Musk confident Spacex can achieve at least 100-fold reduction in the cost of space access and plans reflying within 24 hours of landing
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket relaunch: start time, live stream, and what to expect
• http://www.theverge.com, by Sean O'KaneThe first attempt at sending a landed Falcon 9 rocket back to space
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