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15 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95
What would it be without another day of space news led by SpaceX. SpaceX continues to make news and this time it was on two different fronts. The first thing has to do with funding as SpaceX released amended finance forms. After initially releasing...
14 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95
The Pentagon's Research and Development Arm or DARPA awarded three contracts recently for the DRACO (Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislucar Operations) program. The contracts are divided into two parts and are to fund the first 18-month phase of the...
12 Apr 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Luke86
On board of the Vostok 1, his flight determined a temporary advanced of URSS in the well-known "Space Race" poechali! (Let's go!). With this word Juri Gagarin replied to Korolev, while the 5 rocket engines was starting to take him in orbit for the fi...
11 Apr 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Cje95
Catching Fairings Even though SpaceX routinely launches and lands their Falcon 9 rocket boosters there are more components that they had initially wished to recover after a launch. The most noticeable of those was catching the fairings that encompas...
9 Apr 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Cje95
Starlink Updates! With Starlink's continued rollout and an increase in consumer interest SpaceX's President, Gwynne Shotwell addressed the idea of tiered pricing which is very common for most service companies. She was upfront with the fact that Spac...
31 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Cje95
Well, early this morning SpaceX decided to give it a go and launch Starship. To say the results were expected would not be accurate. The liftoff occurred without a hitch and new cameras were installed giving watchers an amazing view of the belly flop...
30 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Cje95
After standing down last Friday it was expected that SpaceX would attempt to launch Starship again today. However, thanks to the FAA that will no longer be a possibility. The test was the same one that has been attempted two previous times with Stars...
28 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95
New NASA Project Announced This last week NASA unveiled the Commercial LEO Destinations (CLD) project. Hoping to replicate the success of the Commercial Cargo and Commercial Crew program NASA has announced plans to award up to $400 million to as many...
25 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95
The world faces a growing issue with the amount of space junk in the upper atmosphere. At the moment there are currently 2,400 "dead" satellites or satellites that are no longer responsive/under control. This is before the up to 100 million pieces of...
24 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Green Eye Open
We have this generation's Tesla (Elon Musk) making reusable rockets that now make space a realistic solution to a few of our worst problems. Why aren't we paying this man to take our trash and nuclear waste to space and put it in basically in a huge...
