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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] 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] 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] 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] 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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