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Spaceships of the Starshatter universe - Starfighters

4 Apr 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Black Knight

In the Starshatter universe, these crafts are called SSF or space superiority fighters. The design concept behind this abbreviature is simple. You need fighter craft who are well armed and armored, can ensure their pilot's survivability and are cheap...

Mars 2: The Mars Curse

28 Feb 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Solominer

This space probe was part of the unmanned space program under the Soviet Union. It had a lander onboard that attempted to make a soft landing and conduct experiments and collect martian soil to determine material properties. Though due to the failur...

How Scientists Measure Distance in Space

23 Feb 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Cordelia L Rochie

How Scientists Measure Distance in Space. Regarding outer space, the calculation of outer space does not use meters or kilometers, but uses a special unit called the Unit of light years. One light year is 9600 billion kilometers, you can imagine, rig...

Zond 2: The Mars Curse

20 Feb 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer

On the 6th attempt by the Russians to get a space probe to Mars, though a communications issue occurs on the spacecraft on its way to the red planet. One of its solar panels stopped functioning causing the space craft to operate at half power, thoug...

Sputnik 23: The Mars Curse

31 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer

In the early days of space probes, there were many attempts to make it to the martian planet. Though many failed to make it there, here is another account of a failed space probe on its way to mars. Though in this case it did leave earths orbit and...

Resistance is futile!

29 Jan 2020 1 minute read 4 comments Solar Phasing

  Hello Publish0x Friends, Humble Bundle just released today a new Comics Bundle called: Star Trek 2020 (by IDW). It's a great one, especially if you are Star Trek Fan! Check it out: The Comics Bundle start at $1.. up to $15 to get all the issues....

Remembering the Challenger disaster 34 years ago

28 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86

The 28th January 1986 is a very bad day in space history, especially for USA.  Just in this day, the mission STS-51-L aborted after only 73 seconds, because of the explosion of the Challenger Space Shuttle, that killed all the 7-members crew.  A spil...

Drifting [Space Opera Music]

27 Jan 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Solar Phasing

Logbook – Entry 3659 As the vessel is slowly drifting in a unknown deep space, I wonder if the earth is still blue. After all these years. If birds are still singing in the early morning. At the daybreak. When the sun start to shine. Can we really re...

Sputnik 22 and Sputnik 24: The Mars Curse

17 Jan 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Solominer

In the early days of space probes, many did not make it to their intended targets. These are two cases where Russia attempted to send two space probes to Mars. Along their journey the systems had some malfunctions and in the end the mission failed....

Marsnik Probes: The Mars Curse

13 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer

In the early 1960s there was a race to space, and to set foot or lander on planets before other countries could. Even a flyby would be great bragging rights and will give scientists alot of data to look over. Russia attempted many Mars flybys and al...