NASA's plan to bat away Earth-bound asteroids
• https://newatlas.com, David SzondyScientists are putting some serious thought into how we might protect the Earth from potential asteroid impacts
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Four Cubesats Snuck into Orbit Without Regulatory Approval, FCC Says
• Space.comConcerns about space junk and satellite-launch regulations are swirling after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) alleged that a U.S. company launched four tiny satellites without permission.
VLAD'S NEW LAND GRAB Vladimir Putin announces mission to MARS next year ...
• https://www.thesun.co, By Brittany VonowVLAD'S NEW LAND GRAB Vladimir Putin announces mission to MARS next year followed by manned trips in bid to colonise the Red Planet
Astronaut Scott Kelly Now Has Different DNA Than His Identical Twin Brother After One Year In Space
• denver.cbslocal.comAstronaut Scott Kelly set a record for the longest single spaceflight in history and now NASA is saying the trip made him a "new man" as well.
Trump pushes for new 'space force'
• https://www.yahoo.com, AFPPresident Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants the US military to create a new "space force," adding to the Pentagon's current ground, navy and air forces.
Musk and Bezos are ramping up their rocket companies
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangElon Musk said at SXSW that the first SpaceX BFR that could travel to Mars is now in production. He hopes it will be able to do short, "up and down" flights in the first half of 2019.
Musk and Bezos are ramping up their rocket companies
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comElon Musk said at SXSW that the first SpaceX BFR that could travel to Mars is now in production. He hopes it will be able to do short, "up and down" flights in the first half of 2019.
Kirk or Picard? Jeff Bezos Picks His Favorite 'Star Trek' Captain
• https://www.space.comCaptain Jean-Luc Picard rules. So says Jeff Bezos.
Bezos Says He'll Spend 'Amazon Lottery Winnings' on Space Travel
• bloomberg.com By Amanda L GordonJeff Bezos wants to make space travel as dynamic and entrepreneurial as the internet.
SpaceX Payload Efficiency is Superior
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangSpaceX has superior payload to orbit efficiency than competing rockets. SpaceX has made advancements in rocket efficiency and has used some lighter weight materials.
Bezos Says He'll Spend 'Amazon Lottery Winnings' on Space Travel
• https://www.bloomberg.comJeff Bezos wants to make space travel as dynamic and entrepreneurial as the internet. "The price of admission to space is very high," Bezos said Saturday night in New York, accepting the Buzz Aldrin Space Exploration Award at the Explorers Clu
Elon Musk, speaking at SXSW, projects Mars spaceship will be ready for short trips by ...
• https://www.cnbc.comfirst half of 2019...Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk told an audience at South by Southwest that his timeline for sending a space vehicle to Mars could mark its first milestone early next year. The privately-funded venture, announced in September
Giant expandable space antennas and solar arrays
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangOxford Space Systems is developing innovative deployable antennas and structures that meet the challenges of the new space age.
Multiverse comes from Eternal Inflation
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangAlan Guth explains how eternal cosmic inflation explains the multiverse.
Massive Space Structures Have Surprising Connection to Quantum Mechanics Math
• https://www.space.comEnormous disks of stars or debris can operate under the same rules as subatomic particles, changing based on the Schrodinger equation, which physicists use to model quantum-mechanical systems.
Why is Paul Allen building the world's largest airplane? Perhaps to launch a space ...
• https://www.washingtonpost.comshuttle called Black Ice...A massive airplane being built by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen moved a step closer to flight last week, when it crept out of its hangar in Mojave, Calif., and practiced rolling down the runway, hitting a top speed of 46
China's Tiangong-1 space station will crash to Earth within weeks
• https://www.theguardian.comExperts say it is impossible to plot where module will re-enter the atmosphere, but the chance is higher in parts of Europe, US, Australia and New Zealand
Nasa is hiding evidence of soft-bodied aliens on Mars...
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Tim CollinsEvidence of life on Mars is being covered up by Nasa, according to a researcher Barry DiGregorio at a Buckingham University.
Russia, China Strike Deal to Jointly Reach for Outer Space
• https://russia-insider.com, Michel ChossudovskyThe Russia-China space program involves civilian and military applications, comes at a time when US-Russia space collaboration is in jeopardy
SpaceX Texas launch facility would massively increase the number of SpaceX launches
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comSpaceX is building a private spaceport in Boca Chica Village, Texas and the rocket launch facility should be ready around September 2018.
Hawking talks about no clear Big Bang and no boundary to space-time
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangStephen Hawking describes what came before the big bang.
TESS space telescope will find many Earth and Super-Earth like Exoplanets starting this year
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangThe Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky.
Race for global low earth orbit high bandwidth internet satellites
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comThe LA Times reviews some of the competitors in the race for global low earth orbit high bandwidth internet satellite networks.
Gravitational anomaly from the beginning of the universe observed on Earth
• https://newatlas.com, Michael IrvingWhen the universe was just a few microseconds old, it existed as a strange soupy substance called quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which exhibits a whole host of unusual quantum effects.
Moon Mineralogy suggests widespread water on the moon
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangA new analysis of data from two lunar missions finds evidence that the Moon's water is widely distributed across the surface and is not confined to a particular region or type of terrain.
Big future in low cost small rockets
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangCustomizable smallsats can cost as little as $11,000 these day. Planet Labs now operates more than 200 Earth-observing smallsats for governments, agricultural companies, investment firms and others. 6,200 smallsats are expected to be launch over the
SpaceX getting better reusability with vastly improved and expanded heat shielding
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangSpaceX is using vastly improved heat shielding to achieve high reusability goals with the block 5 version of the Falcon 9.
USAF General Warns Of Space War "In A Matter Of Years"
• Prison Planet.com by Zero HedgeIt is only "a matter of years" before the US fights "from space," the United States Air Force's top brass warned.
Moon to get first mobile phone network
• https://www.yahoo.com ReutersThe moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a project to back the first privately funded moon mission.
US Air Force Chief Warns of Space War 'in a Matter of Years'
• https://gizmodo.com, George DvorskySpeaking to an audience of active-duty airmen, US Air Force Chief of Staff General David L. Goldfein predicted it'll only be a "matter of years" before American forces find themselves "fighting from space." To prepare for this grim possibil
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