See the new Giant SpaceX net for catching rocket nose cone shells

07-14-2018 • nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

SpaceX has improved the boat that will catch Falcon rocket nose cone shell. SpaceX made the catching net four times larger.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin plans to charge at least $200,000 for space rides, sources say

07-13-2018 • CNBC

Potential customers and the aerospace industry have been eager to learn the cost of a ticket on Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle, to find out if it is affordable and whether the company can generate enough demand to make a profit on space tour

SpaceIL plans to land hopping robot on the moon by end of 2018

07-13-2018 • Next Big Future

Isreali startup SpaceIl plans to launch a lunar lander and robotic rover to the moon in December, 2018. SpaceIL had been competing in the Lunar Xprize contest. The Lunar XPrize had a few deadline extensions but was finished with no winner earlier thi

Trump's Space Force Will Guard the U.S. From Above, NASA Chief Says

07-13-2018 • Bloomberg Quint

NASA's administrator is a strong defender of President Donald Trump's proposals for space -- including an armed force and a permanent presence on the moon -- and says he wants Americans to realize how much their well-being depends on what happens

Watch the Air Force Blow Up a Piece of Spaceflight History

07-13-2018 • Motherboard Vice

On Thursday, the historic Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 (SLC-17) exploded its towers in a controlled demolition. The twin structures, called 17A and 17B, were built in 1956, two years before NASA was officially established

First space tourist flights could come in 2019

07-13-2018 • Yahoo

Virgin Galactic, founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, and Blue Origin, by Amazon creator Jeff Bezos, are racing to be the first to finish their tests -- with both companies using radically different technology.

US government should dump SLS and make Turbo rocket instead

07-12-2018 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) project will cost about $40 billion from now to 2030 and will produce a chemical rocket about 1000 times more expensive to launch than a SpaceX BFR. SLS will start inferior to the SpaceX Falcon Heavy and then will b

Russian Cargo Ship Sets New Record for Fastest Trip to Space Station

07-11-2018 • https://www.space.com, By Mike Wall

A Russian cargo spacecraft set a record tonight (July 9), arriving at the International Space Station (ISS) less than 4 hours after lifting off.

SpaceX working on SpaceX BFR factory and faring catcher

07-11-2018 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com

The SpaceX BFR factory is expected to take 12-18 months for Phase 1 and another 12 or so months for Phase 2. Pictures indicate the work to prepare the site of the SpaceX BFR factory is ramping up

Israeli company plans lunar landing next year

07-10-2018 • https://apnews.com, by ILAN BEN ZION

An Israeli organization said Tuesday that it hopes to become the first non-governmental entity to land a spacecraft on the moon when it attempts to launch a module later this year.

Space mining could turn out to be a trillion-dollar industry, say experts

07-09-2018 • https://www.naturalnews.com

(Natural News) The Space Race was originally driven by national prestige, scientific curiosity, and technological prowess. Tourism eventually joined those lofty reasons, being backed by big names and big money. In a CNBC article, the potentially hug

Zubrin describes how Dipole Drives can be built and they would be better than other...

07-08-2018 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang

Zubrin describes how Dipole Drives can be built and they would be better than other space propulsion

NASA readies probe to touch the sun with 'cutting-edge heat shield'

07-06-2018 • https://www.cnet.com, by JACKSON RYAN

It's getting hot in here, so protect all your probes.

China aims to outstrip NASA with super-powerful rocket

07-02-2018 • https://www.channelnewsasia.com

BEIJING: China is working on a super-powerful rocket that would be capable of delivering heavier payloads into low orbit than NASA, a leading Chinese space expert was quoted as saying Monday (Jul 2).

Gateway Foundation Spaceport envisions large scale space construction

07-01-2018 • nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

Orbital Assembly and the Gateway Foundation are working on a reasonable set of plans and steps to build a space station that is 488 meters in diameter.

Fully reusable rockets will create the entrepreneurial space age

07-01-2018 • nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

Elon Musk SpaceX BFR and Jeff Bezos Blue Origin are targeting fully reusable rockets.

HAL-like robot to help astronaut in space odyssey

06-29-2018 • https://www.yahoo.com

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A science fiction-inspired robot hardwired to assist astronauts launched from Florida early Friday to become the first personal, artificial intelligence-powered companion in space.

Space Command Is About to Launch!

06-29-2018 • unz.com by Philip Giraldi

Beam me up, Scotty!

The search for life on Mars by the ESA reaches important milestone as ExoMars Rover ...

06-28-2018 • https://www.naturalnews.com

prepares for its "shake and bake"...(Natural News) The prototype of the ExoMars Rover is being prepared for vibration and temperature tests in France. The upcoming "shake and bake" test is a big step for the European Space Agency's mission

Japanese Sample Return Spacecraft Reaches Target Asteroid

06-27-2018 • https://www.popularmechanics.com, By Avery Thompso

Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft will collect a piece of the asteroid Ryugu and bring it back to Earth.

Space Command Is About to Launch!

06-27-2018 • https://www.lewrockwell.com

I thought that perhaps I had tuned into John Oliver or to Saturday Night Live in error, but no doubt about it, there was an unmistakable President Donald Trump speaking before an audience at the National Space Council. He was saying that on his own p

The New Arms Race Threatening to Explode in Space

06-26-2018 • https://www.wired.com, by Garrett M. Graff

Trump's call for a "Space Force" escalates a quiet, dangerous contest between the US, China, and Russia--one whose consequences no one really understands.

The White House is calling for Space Traffic Control

06-26-2018 • https://www.popsci.com

It's time to stop sending up so much garbage.

Doug Casey on the Space Force

06-26-2018 • By Justin Spittler Casey Research

Justin's note: Last Monday, Donald Trump announced that he's establishing a new, sixth branch of the military known as the "Space Force." It sounds like a joke. But Trump's dead serious about this. Here's what he said:

The proposed Space Force isn't the first time the United States has tried to militarize space

06-26-2018 • arclein

Let's get this out of the way: there are Department of Defense satellites in space. The Boeing X-37B, an uncrewed space shuttle, has flown a series of classified missions in the last decade-plus, all with a lot of secrecy as to what it's doing. S

Made in Space targets 2023 for building large structures in space and later future asteroid mining

06-25-2018 • nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

Within 4-5 years Made In Space believes their Archinaut space manufacturing robot and manufacturing mini factory will be making large structures like trusses and reflectors in space.

SunPower SolarStratos Electric Plane Can Fly To Edge Of Space

06-23-2018 • https://insideevs.com, BY MARK KANE

SolarStratos is the new all-electric solar-powered aircraft that by 2020 will try to reach the stratosphere in the world's first piloted stratospheric solar flight.

This floating robotic factory will build satellites and spaceships in orbit

06-23-2018 • https://www.cnbc.com, Katie Brigham , Lora Kolodn

SpaceX is the best-known start-up in aerospace today. But what comes after reusable rockets?

SpaceX will use superalloys for Raptor engines

06-23-2018 • nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

Elon Musk stated that SpaceX will use modern versions of Inconel superalloys for Raptor rocket engines. They will use the SX 300 and soon SX 500 superalloys.