Hacked satellite in space movie plot?
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Scott Manley had a good video about it.
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US govt calmly but firmly tells Blue Origin it already has a ride to the Moon’s surface with SpaceX, thanks
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8 years ago another billionaire ploughed millions into space to harvest solar power and beam it back down to Earth
Billionaire Donald Bren was behind a quiet $100m donation in 2013 that established Caltech’s Space-based Solar Power Project (SSPP) in an attempt to harness solar power from outer space, the California private research university revealed this week.
The real estate magnate was inspired by a 2011 article in Popular Science (perhaps this one?). He also knew a thing or two concerning power distribution problems from his experience master planning cities like Irvine, California.
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First prototypes in about 2 years.
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Have they figured out the “death ray” aspect of transmitting the power to the ground?
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The Jeff Bezos-bearing Blue Origin New Shepard rocket elicited attention for its shape when it launched last month.
On Friday, rival billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship made a show of its size.
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My mother won a ticket to the Moon.
This is meant literally, not as a euphemism nor an idiomatic exaggeration. It was an actual, physical passenger ticket issued at the height of Apollo fever in 1969, officially valid and certifiable as genuine as such a thing could be, and my Mum owned it.
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Quite the exchange of letters between Mrs. Dabbs and the Pan Am people.
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Boeing’s Starliner CST 100 – aka the Calamity Capsule – continues to remain firmly wedded to Earth as engineers work to resolve a problem with valves in the spacecraft’s thruster systems.
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Boots on Moon in 2024? NASA OIG says you better moonwalk away from that date, because suits ain’t ready
NASA’s Office of Inspector General has stuck another knife in the agency’s dreams of a 2024 Moon landing by pointing out [PDF] that, er, the astronauts will have to be good at holding their breath because the space suits are unlikely to be ready before 2025.
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