"Starship matters. It’s not just a really big rocket, like any other rocket on steroids. It’s a continuing and dedicated attempt to achieve the “Holy Grail” of rocketry, a fully and rapidly reusable orbital class rocket that can be mass manufactured. It is intended to enable a conveyor belt logistical capacity to Low Earth Orbit … Continue reading Starship is Still Not Understood
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SpaceX & Starship SN15 Successful Landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9eoubnO-pE Pretty amazing accomplishment when you think of everything that went into making this happen, from the assembly line pipeline to the willingness to test and fail vehicles, it really conveys what is possible when you have the right leadership, incentives and willingness to take risk.
A Drake Equation for Alien Artifacts
"I propose a version of the Drake Equation for Lurkers on near-Earth objects. By using it, one can compare a Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts (SETA) strategy of exploring for artifacts to the conventional listening-to-stars SETI strategy, which has thus far found no artificial signals of technological origin. In contrast, SETA offers a new perspective, a … Continue reading A Drake Equation for Alien Artifacts
NASA’s Guide to Near Lightspeed Space Travel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4u4wV_dOi0 The channel has a bunch of strangely informative videos on space that can make difficult physics topics more accessible to people that don't know anything about physics, like me.
If Rockets Were Transparent
The Space Resource Report: 2020
"China dominates. Asteroid mining dies but attends its own funeral. Reusable rockets lower the cost and increase access to space. The Moon, Mars, and asteroids all get new survey maps for water resources. Water-based thrusters perform well in orbit. Asteroids are blasted and samples collected. Space mining gets more legal scaffolding. The Moon gets one … Continue reading The Space Resource Report: 2020
Car Talk: Government Vehicle Shakes
Aerospike Engines
"[A rocket engine] is a heat and pressure machine whose end goal is to convert...heat and pressure into workable thrust. The more that gets converted the better. This conversion is usually done by a large bell nozzle...The further down the nozzle you go, the lower the pressure and temperature of the exhaust gets and the … Continue reading Aerospike Engines
Super Massive Black Holes — PHD Comics
The explanation of Super Massive Black Holes you didn't know you needed.
NASA Image and Video Library
You can browse NASA’s Image and Video Library online; you can also access it via NASA’s API. Through that interface, you can search by caption, keyword, location, photographer, year created, and other fields; in return, you get structured data on each media file. The library was launched two years ago, bringing together more than 140,000 … Continue reading NASA Image and Video Library
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