SpaceX had a successful static fire test and is ready for the fourth orbital flight of the Super Heavy Starship. Static fires for the third launch were about 2-3 weeks before the actual launch. Static fire of Flight 5 Starship’s six Raptor engines pic.twitter.com/UiF5UG432F — SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 8, 2024 Brian WangBrian Wang is a …
Elon Musk discusses the future of humanity with Michael Milken, touching on topics such as birth rates, the most impactful factors shaping our future, and his vision of a multiplanetary species. Elon Musk was at the 27th annual Global Conference hosted by the Milken Institute, which was livestreamed from May 6 to 8, 2024. Watch …
Space based solar ecosystem map created by Erik Kulu. There is a huge new economically sustainable space industry and with a great vision to provide 24/7 abundant clean energy to Earth. Erik Kulu prepared this ecosystem map for his talk “Space Solar Power – Updated Survey of Private Initiatives” at the “International Conference on Energy …
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft was scheduled to launch tonight to get certification. The mission was scrubbed for today. Atlas valve issue. The scrub was recommended after launch control teams detected anomalous behavior by the pressure regulation valve in the liquid oxygen tank of the Centaur upper stage of the ULA Atlas V launch vehicle. Engineers are …
Building a base on the Moon and a city on Mars will require millions of spacesuits. The development of many new suit and the execution of the spacewalk will be important steps toward a scalable design for spacesuits on future long-duration missions as life becomes multiplanetary. This EVA suit evolve from the Intravehicular Activity (IVA) …
Researchers closely tracked and computationally analyzed moon and asteroid sized objects beyond Neptune and determined that a ninth planet about five times bigger than the Earth is about 16 times further than Pluto. A planet matching Planet Nine’s expected characteristics would still be relatively small, with a mass just five times that of Earth, and …
South Korea plans a 120 Gigawatt space based solar project which would generate more power than the US nuclear industry’s 95 gigawatt. Two Korean research institutes are designing a space solar power satellite project with the aim of providing approximately 1000 TWh of electricity to the Earth per year. The 95 gigawatts of nuclear in …
According to Kshatriya, SpaceX will perform a Starship-to-Starship cryogenic propellant transfer test in 2025. According to Kshatriya, SpaceX will perform a Starship-to-Starship cryogenic propellant transfer test in 2025. pic.twitter.com/S6f17Rr6zy — Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) April 26, 2024 We have known that fuel transfer capability is critical for the $3.5 billion NASA-SpaceX Lunar Starship program. SpaceX will …
Dr. Charles Buhler and Exodus Technologies claims that systems with electrostatic pressure differences or electrostatic divergent fields gives systems with a center of mass with non-zero force component (aka generate movement). Buhler is NASA’s subject matter expert on electrostatics. They want to move to demo the system in orbit. These kinds of claims are controversial …
SpaceX and Elon Musk are choosing to go to the moon. The moon orbiting and moon landing missions should be within this decade and they will make a permanently manned moonbase as well. In the video, I describe the multiple moon related missions that SpaceX has and how easy it would be for SpaceX to …
There are exclusive articles for paid subscribers on the Nextbigfuture Substack. The history of human colonization tells us what is needed for a future sustainable human interstellar colonization. What is needed for Artificial Superintelligence. Here is an overview of what is needed for AGI and ASI level AI. I will briefly review some key concepts …