If this works out, it would be huge. It might be useful for Martian water, too.
Category Archives: Space
“Space Exploration”
I hate op-eds like this. They’re meaningless.
I oppose "space exploration." It's a meaningless phrase. I favor space development.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) October 20, 2015
New NASA Human Spaceflight Rules
I have trouble caring about this, given the programmatic unlikelihood of SLS/Orion.
That Mysterious “Stalking” Russian Satellite
Reusable Mars Landers
Yes, throwing them away makes no sense. That’s Apollo-to-Mars thinking.
Creating fully reusable transportation infrastructure will be a key element of my Kickstarter report.
Back To The Moon
…by Europe and Russia?
Five years until the first probe hardly seems like a breakneck pace, but I take this more seriously than I do China. I suspect that the next president, whoever it is, will have to make some serious choices about US plans.
[Update a few minutes later]
SpaceX Return To Flight
Orbcomm is going to go first:
SpaceX on Oct. 16 said it had changed its return-to-flight plans and would first launch 11 small Orbcomm messaging satellites into low Earth orbit, and then test reignition of the redesigned second-stage engine during the same flight before launching SES’s heavier telecommunications satellite into higher orbit, a mission that will need the reignition capability.
Luxembourg-based SES said the company was comfortable with ceding its slot to Rochelle Park, New Jersey-based Orbcomm, especially since SpaceX has said it can launch the SES-9 telecommunications satellite into geostationary orbit in late December.
So December may be an interesting month, with two landing attempts.
Planetary Protection
This whole debate assumes that the only purpose of space exploration is science. But if we want to settle space, we have to accept the fact that we are going to “contaminate” it with earthly life.
Deep Space Industries
They appear to have gotten a significant investor.
Interning At SpaceX
Eleven tough questions you’ll have to answer.