US stepping up Earth's protection from asteroids, comets
• https://www.yahoo.com, By MARCIA DUNNThe U.S. government is stepping up efforts to protect the planet from incoming asteroids that could wipe out entire regions or even continents.
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The Final Frontier? Trump's Pricey Plan For A New Space Force
• https://www.youtube.comPresident Trump surprised his audience yesterday by announcing he would create a new "separate but equal" branch of the military to "dominate" space. Will Congress go along? Where will the money come from? Where's the threat?
Trump's Vision of a 'Space Force' May Conflict With the Outer Space Treaty
• https://motherboard.vice.comTrump sees space as a "warfighting domain." The Outer Space Treaty disagrees.
'Space Force' - Trump Directs Pentagon to Create New Military Branch
• https://www.youtube.comTrump Speech on creation of Space Force...
Trump space force: US to set up sixth military branch
• bbc.comPresident Donald Trump has ordered the US military to establish a sixth branch of its armed forces - a "space force".
Spinlaunch has $40 million to fund development to first centrifuge space launch by 2022
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangSpinLaunch Inc. has closed a $35 million Series A funding round with a powerhouse syndicate of investors. Investors include Airbus Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Kleiner Perkins.
SpaceX will try to use NASA inflatable aeroshell decelerator to enable second stage reuse
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comNASA's Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID, is demonstrating technology for atmospheric entry.
New asteroid gold rush 'could earn everyone on Earth £75 billion'
• https://metro.co.uk by Rob WaughThe world's first trillionaire won't come from cryptocurrency or some clever new app – he or she will become rich from asteroid mining.
Curiosity finds complex organic life traces in 3 billion year old mudflats on Mars
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangNASA's Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests Mars could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to the search for current life on the Red Planet.
China invites all UN members countries to cooperate on new Space Station
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangChina announced that all United Nation member counties are welcome to cooperate with China to jointly utilize its future China Space Station (CSS).
Bidding open for interstellar laser sail feasability work
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comThe $100 million Breakthrough Starshot program has issued a request for proposals.
First Phantom Express spaceplane engine completed
• https://newatlas.comAssembly has been completed on the first test engine that will power DARPA's Boeing-built, next generation spaceplane. Built by Aerojet Rocketdyne , the first updated AR-22 rocket engine for the Phantom Express project will be used in ground tests to
Carnival of Space 564
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comSave The Carnival of Space 564 is up at Nextbigcoins. Blasting News - Jeff Bezos' Amazon has saved 'The Expanse' Blasting News - Alan Bean explored the moon and then told the story in paint
SpaceX has had three months of successful tests of prototype internet satellites
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comSpaceXfirst two prototype Starlink internet satellites tests are working three months after launch. Elon tweeted - TinTin A & B are both closing the link to ground w phased array at high bandwidth, low latency (25 ms). Good enough to play fast r
Sex on Mars is going to be risky, but it could create a new human subspecies
• http://bgr.com, Mike WehnerThe idea of a colony of humans on Mars isn't just science fiction anymore; NASA and space agencies around the world, along with independent scientists and researchers, are working hard to determine just what it would take for humanity to take root
Amazon to Control Future Space Travel In Addition to the CIA, Pentagon Online Marketing
• http://www.thecommonsenseshow.comJeff Bezos,as dastardly as he is, represents the new economy. However, he's not satisfied with that. He wants to enter your home and your car. He wants the keys to locks. Amazon, owners of the Washington Post and partnered with the CIA, wants acces
Virgin Galactic's spaceplane hits new heights in second powered flight
• https://newatlas.comVirgin Galactic has shown the first firing of its spaceplane's chemical rocket engine was no fluke, following last month's effort with another successful outing in California. The latest test flight took the tourist-carrying space vehicle a little cl
Virgin Galactic's spaceplane hits new heights in second powered flight
• https://newatlas.com, Nick LavarsVirgin Galactic has shown the first firing of its spaceplane's chemical rocket engine was no fluke, following last month's effort with another successful outing in California.
Dawn of a True Space Age is Near
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comI will illustrate the massive game-changer that the SpaceX BFR will be. I will show this by describing how we can have millions of people in space by the 2040s. Gerard O'Neill visions from the 1970s failed to be realized because launch costs in
Zubrin Moon Direct Plan
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangZubrin has detailed creating a moon base within 4 years using a few SpaceX Falcon Heavy missions.
Bezos will work with NASA, ESA to create moon base
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangJeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture will work with NASA as well as the European Space Agency to create a settlement on the moon.
Bezos will work with NASA, ESA to create moon base
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comJeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture will work with NASA as well as the European Space Agency to create a settlement on the moon.
We're Going Back! China To Become The First Nation To Land On The Dark Side Of The Moon
• By Arjun Walia Collective EvolutionChina is set to do something no other nation has done, and that's land on the far side of the moon. This year, they plan to launch two missions known as "Chang'e 4". The first part will launch in June, which will really act as a satellite po
Every 3-5 years SpaceX is adding a decade lead on competitors
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangFormer Pentagon Under Secretary of Defense for acquisition tech and logistics John Young told CNBC in February that no one can compete with even Falcon Heavy, let alone BFR.
Test reveals that the magic space unicorns pushing the EM-drive are magnetic fields.
•It was bound to happen eventually. A group of researchers that may actually be competent and well-funded is investigating alternative thrust concepts. This includes our favorite, the WTF-thruster EM-drive, as well as something called a Mach-Effect th
China launching relay satellite to Lagrange 2 to support rover probe to far side of moon
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangChina plans to launch a relay satellite into space next Monday, May 21, for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe scheduled later this year.
First radar-equipped CubeSat among three heading to the ISS
• newatlas.com by David SzondyWhen NASA's latest Cygnus cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) lifts off on Monday, its manifest of experiments and general supplies will include three CubeSats, including the first equipped with radar.
China's first private rocket launch kicks off the country's commercial space race
• https://www.theverge.com, Sean O'KaneOneSpace sends a rocket up, and hopes to start launching satellites next year
Sonny White at Eagleworks scaling EMdrive experiments to 400 watts
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangBreakthrough Discuss is an academic conference focused on the question of life in the Universe.
Robert Zubrin has new propellentless space propulsion concept – Dipole Drive
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangRobert Zubrin was an inventor of the magnetic sail with Dana Andrews when they looked at the drag of a magnetic scoop intended for a Bussard ramjet.
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