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UK to splash another £1.4bn on protecting non-existent ‘national interests in space’
The UK government is to spend an extra £1.4bn on space defence on top of the £5bn allocated to upgrade the Skynet satellite communication system.
The Defence Space Strategy, intended to “bolster our national interests in space,” according to the UK’s Ministry of Defence, was accompanied by a speech from Chief of the Air Staff Sir Mike Wigston in which the usual bogeymen were trotted out.
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The space station will be replaced by “one or more commercially-owned and -operated” space platforms, NASA said in a statement.
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Seriously… did everyone read all the sci-fi stories that warned about corporations controlling space and think it was aspirational?
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Shit, but at least, maybe, not a ticket to Kessler Syndrome? Maybe? Still, not a good sign. Weaponization of space proceeds apace, and some numbnuts is going to blow something up in LEO before much longer.
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NASA has picked Lockheed Martin Space as the developer of the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), one of the vehicles that will retrieve samples collected by the Perseverance rover on the Red Planet.
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Neat!
Kinda terrifying that Venus is so hot that it is faintly incandescent
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