SpaceX CEO Elon Musk anticipated cheaper flights to space with his Starship rockets in a presentation at the company’s facility in southern Texas, while highlighting the necessity of human beings colonizing multiple planets and moons. In just two to three years, Starships will be able to reach orbit at just $10 million per flight, Musk…
Musk Predicts Cheaper Starship Launches, Talks About Humanity Becoming ‘Multi-Planetary Species’
February 11, 2022
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NASA Releases New Images of Surface of Venus
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible-light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’s surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent flybys of the planet, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the entire nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum–the type…
SpaceX Satellites Falling out of Orbit After Solar Storm
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Spacex’s newest fleet of satellites is tumbling out of orbit after being struck by a solar storm. Up to 40 of the 49 small satellites launched last week have either reentered the atmosphere and burned up, or are on the verge of doing so, the company said in an online update Tuesday night….
Solar Storm Dooms 40 SpaceX Internet Satellites
Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink was hammered by a geomagnetic storm last week, causing them to de-orbit or crash back to earth, according to a SpaceX post on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, the satellites deployed on Thursday were significantly impacted by a geomagnetic storm on Friday. These storms cause the atmosphere to warm and atmospheric density…
‘Morning Star’ Venus to Shine Its Brightest Tomorrow Morn—With Mars, Mercury, Moon, and More in February
This particular Feb. 9 tomorrow morn will coincide with the rise of the “morning star,” like a diamond in the sky, Venus—the brightest planet in our solar system whose orbit around the sun travels just inside our Earth’s. Today, Venus reached its “inferior conjunction,” aligning between Earth and the sun just before shifting over from…
‘Morning Star’ Venus to Shine Its Brightest From Thursday Morn—With Mars, Mercury, Moon, and More in February
This particular week in February coincides with the rise of the “morning star,” like a diamond in the sky, Venus—the brightest planet in our solar system whose orbit around the sun travels just inside our Earth’s. On Feb. 8, Venus reached its “inferior conjunction,” aligning between Earth and the sun just before shifting over from…
Suicide: Helping China in Space
Commentary China’s militant regime wants the United States to aid its space program, and some, including those in the U.S. space community, are eager to provide assistance. Such cooperation, however, would be extremely disadvantageous for the United States, as it has always been. On Jan. 28, Beijing issued “China’s Space Program: A 2021 Perspective,” its…
SpaceX Launches 49 Starlink Satellites Into Orbit
SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the next batch of 49 Starlink satellites for the company’s internet satellite constellation system from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday. The booster supporting this mission previously launched Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8, CRS-23, and IXPE. Starlink is a satellite-based global internet system that…
International Space Station Could Be Taken out of Orbit in 2031, Crashed Into Pacific Ocean: NASA
NASA will keep operating the International Space Station (ISS) until the end of 2030, after which it could be taken out of orbit in January 2031 and crashed into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo, officials have said. According to newly published plans (pdf) detailing the next decade of goals for ISS operations,…
VIDEO: Artist Creates Mind-Blowing Month Timelapse of Sun in 4K Using Data From NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
February 2, 2022
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No wonder ancient cultures once worshipped the sun as a god. It is the giver of all life on Earth upon which our existence depends. But while the Greeks once portrayed our closest star as the charioteer Apollo, arcing across the sky, pulled by winged horses, today high-powered telescopes orbiting in the stratosphere capture the…
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