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[Link] China and the US Are Racing to Go Nuclear in Space
Read: 23/11/2022 www.vice.com
The outpost is developed in conjunction with Russia and is expected to be built by 2028 on the lunar south pole, which has patches of sunny spots as well as permanently shadowed craters. The U.S.
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[Link] Russia to Build Its Own Orbiting Space Station, Abandon ISS
Read: 27/7/2022 www.vice.com
Before he was removed as Russia’s space chief, Rogozin feuded with NASA astronauts, implied that Russia could crash the station into the United States, and shared a video that joked about the nation marooning an American astronaut in space.
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[Link] An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred
Read: 25/11/2021 arstechnica.com
A short update on the projected launch date of the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope came out of NASA on Monday, and it wasn't exactly a heart-warming missive.
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[Link] NASA Plans to Put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Within a Decade
Read: 22/11/2021 www.vice.com
The agency put out a request for proposals for a lunar nuclear power plant that can power surface exploration. If you’ve been sitting on a creative idea for how to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon, NASA and the Department of Energy want you.
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[Link] Russian Anti-Satellite Weapon Test Draws Widespread Condemnation
Read: 17/11/2021 hackaday.com
On the morning of November 15, a Russian missile destroyed a satellite in orbit above Earth.
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[Link] NASA unveils asteroid-fighting spacecraft as it prepares for Armageddon-style mission test
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The spacecraft will be launched later this month as part of the space agency's first planetary defence test mission called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). It will direct itself at an asteroid while traveling at a speed of about 24,000 kilometres per hour.
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[Link] Hey, Jeff Bezos: Send Hideo Kojima to Space Already
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Kojima's fascination with space is no big secret. The branding for his studio Kojima Productions features a mysterious space explorer planting a flag on an alien world, and his 1994 game Policenauts takes place in space.
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[Link] Jeff Bezos Reveals Plans to Build a Space Station Called 'Orbital Reef'
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Jeff Bezos has turned his wealth from Amazon into a play for space. He's already gone to the edge of space in one of his own Blue Origin rockets and broken the record for sending the oldest person ever into space, twice.
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[Link] China Denies Secretly Testing a Missile That Could Drop Nukes at Any Point in the World
Read: 18/10/2021 www.vice.com
On July 19, China announced its 77th launch of the Long March 2C rocket, carrying three satellite sensors to orbit. The next month, the same rocket was used to put three telecommunications satellites in space. What happened next confounded observers. China said the second launch, on Aug.
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[Link] Astronauts Report Smoke Alarms, Burning Plastic Smell on the ISS
Read: 9/9/2021 www.vice.com
Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) woke up to fire and smoke alarms triggered by an incident in the Russian Zvezda module early on Thursday.
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[Link] Thousands of kilometres from anywhere lies Point Nemo, a watery grave where space stations go to die
Read: 6/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
At the furthest point from any landmass on earth, and 4km under the sea, lies the space cemetery. When their outer space journeys come to an end, old satellites, rocket parts and space stations are sent to this desolate spot in the Pacific Ocean to rest on the dark seabed forever.
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[Link] A Quarter of Stars Like Our Sun Eat Their Planets, Study Finds
Read: 30/8/2021 www.vice.com
It’s practically a childhood rite of passage to eat forbidden treats and then deny it when caught, even though the evidence is smeared all over your face.
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[Link] China Is Aiming to Develop Miles-Wide, 'Ultra-Large' Spacecraft
Read: 30/8/2021 www.vice.com
A new five-year plan highlights an 'urgent need' to develop megaprojects in space, such as human habitats and space-based solar power plants. ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs.
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[Link] Retrotechtacular: Amiga Pips The PC For Mission-Critical Computing At NASA
Read: 17/8/2021 hackaday.com
In 1986, a group of NASA engineers faced a difficult choice in solving their data processing woes: continue tolerating the poor performance of PC architecture, or pony up the cash for exotic workstations.
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[Link] The Odds of This Dangerous Asteroid Hitting Earth Just Went Up
Read: 11/8/2021 www.vice.com
The odds that one of the most hazardous known asteroids might collide with Earth in the coming centuries just went up, though they are still extremely low. There is now a 0.057 percent chance of an impact before 2300, according to a new study that was discussed in a NASA teleconference on Wednesday.
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[Link] How 'Space Environmentalism' Could Prevent a Disaster In Orbit
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
It’s been more than 60 years since humans launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik, into outer space.
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[Link] Sperm-on-a-Postcard Breakthrough Opens Door to Massive 'Sperm Books'
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
It’s always a delight to receive a thoughtful letter in the mail, but scientists in Japan have added a whole new layer to the experience by sending each other postcards containing freeze-dried mouse sperm.
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[Link] International Space Station stabilizes after just-docked Russian module suddenly fires thrusters
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
The International Space Station tilted 45 degrees today after Nauka, a just-docked Russian module, suddenly and unexpectedly fired its thrusters. The launch of Nauka, also known as the Multipurpose Laboratory Module, did not go smoothly.
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[Link] The Air Force's 'rods from god' could hit with the force of a nuclear weapon — with no fallout
Read: 25/5/2021 www.businessinsider.com
The 107-country Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 prohibits nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons from being placed in or used from Earth's orbit.
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[Link] Barnaby Joyce says purchase of shares for son in company he quizzed at public inquiry ‘was reasonable’
Read: 11/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Barnaby Joyce has said the purchase of shares in a space company for his young son, just weeks after the MP had quizzed the firm over its ownership structure in his capacity as chair of a federal parliamentary inquiry, was a “reasonable thing”.
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[Link] Coverage of “wooden satellites” misses the point
Read: 24/1/2021 arstechnica.com
We here at Ars were somewhat surprised to stumble across a BBC headline indicating that a university-industry partnership in Japan was working on developing wooden satellites. The plan is less insane than it sounds—wood is a remarkable material that's largely unappreciated because of its ubiquity.