When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing satellites pass overhead in the night sky was a rare event. Now, it is commonplace; sit outside for a few minutes after dark, and you can’t miss them. Thousands of satellites have been launched into Earth orbit over the past decade or so, with tens of ...
Have you ever dreamed of gazing down at Earth from the comfort of your room? As space travel becomes more accessible, companies plan to build the first-ever space hotel. Developers envision a rotating space station with artificial gravity that will provide stunning views of Earth and space. While significant technical and safety hurdles remain, the ...
A mysterious blue spiral light recently appeared in the sky, which the residents witnessed in New Zealand. The blue spiral light baffled viewers, and they speculated that a UFO created it. However, the truth was eventually uncovered and determined that it was created by a dying SpaceX rocket. The blue spiral light was triggered by ...
The SpaceX project could affect a small island in Papua. Elon Musk’s proposed SpaceX base in Biak, Papua, could have a negative impact on local livelihoods and the environment, argues Southeast Asia expert Dr. Sophie Chao. In December 2020, the Indonesian government offered the Papuan island of Biak, home to some 100,000 inhabitants, to the centibillionare ...
Space is a mysterious and intriguing place. No matter how many satellites or space voyages are launched, space, the solar system, and the galaxies will always remain special for space lovers and stargazers. While NASA has successfully explored the Moon, sent astronauts to the International Space Station, and fired off dozens of unmanned space probes, ...
Space is a mysterious and intriguing place. No matter how much exploration may be done, space, the solar system, and the galaxies will always remain a mystery that calls out to us. While NASA has successfully sent unmanned objects to distant parts of the solar system and the rovers Curiosity and Perseverance to trace out ...
SpaceX has hosted many land-based prototype launches from its site in Boca Chica, Texas. For example, in December 2020, the first launch of the Starship prototype, which the company hopes will eventually lead to commercial space flights to Mars, took place. But now, is SpaceX retrofitting oil rigs to conduct launches from platforms located off ...
Colonizing Mars has long been a much-cherished dream of mankind ever since human beings started exploring space. However, a new paper seems to quash such hopes as it says that terraforming Mars might just be impossible. Terraforming Mars Terraforming means the modification of a planet’s temperature, surface, and atmosphere to make it suitable for human ...
Axiom, an aerospace company based in Houston, Texas, has announced that it has signed a contract with SpaceX to send three paying tourists to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2021. The travelers will make the journey in SpaceX’s reusable spacecraft Crew Dragon. Space tourists “This history-making flight will represent a watershed moment in the ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully finished an abort maneuver of its Crew Dragon spacecraft, demonstrating that it has the ability to get astronauts to safety in case an unforeseen emergency threatens their journey. This brings Musk’s dream of using Crew Dragon to launch astronauts to space one step closer to reality. The test “The rehearsal at ...
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