Tomorrow NASA finally shows their HiRise, triple current best resolution images. In ~4 days a CME (sun coronal mass ejection) is expected to slam into a now very active 3I/Atlas — potential for spectacular tail disconnection event or brightening. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb explains how Tianwen-1’s high-resolution Mars-orbit imagery has refined the comet’s path with …
Todays Blue Origin launch scrubbed due to weather. They delayed over 60 minutes from the start of the launch window. Launch window today 2:45PM EST to 4:44PM EST (19:45-21:44 UTC) They are fully loaded with propellant. New Glenn launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE mission. It is one year late. It will hang out a few months …
SpaceX has announced regular commercial cargo missions to the Moon starting in 2028 and to Mars in 2030. They will charge $100 million per ton. SpaceX is going to try to get refueling and launches of the SpaceX Starship developed so that they can send an unmanned test mission in 2026. This test mission will …
SpaceX Raptor 3 rocket engine had it first hot-fire in August 2024 and entered scaled production by early 2025. It has 280 tonnes-force (tf) sea-level thrust, 350-second specific impulse (Isp), and a dry mass under 1,525 kg. It has nearly double the thrust-to-weight of Raptor 2 at a fraction of the complexity (no external heat …
NASA says that the evidence found by Mars Perserverence is confirmed as signs of ancient life on Mars. They found the evidence a year ago and they had teams investigate. The report is that this is the clearest sign of ancient life and ancient life fossils is the most likely explanation. G-band confirms the poppy …
Now that there has been a successful Flight 10 of Starship. There will be the start of using version 3 Starship in flight 12. Fuel transfer capability is critical for the $3.5 billion NASA-SpaceX Lunar Starship program. SpaceX will test as much as they can in the single Starship launches as previously discussed by NASA. …
SpaceX lost the Massey static fire stand due to a large explosion. SpaceX appears to be converting the first launch tower for static fire tests. They will perform one or two static fires for the Starship rockets that they plan to launch. They will then remove the static fire related equipment and perform the last …
Terraforming Mars with rapid warming particles or gases could enable plants to start growing within 40 years. We could raise Mars’s average global temperature by tens of degrees within a few decades. SpaceX Starship combined with proposed new warming techniques, could potentially raise Mars’s temperature by 30 °C to permit liquid water for the first …
Developed in collaboration with Mach33, ARK’s open-source SpaceX model yields an expected enterprise value in 2030 of ~$2.5 trillion, generating a ~38% compound annual rate of return from its last funding round at $350 billion in December 2024.1 Tuned to the 75th and 25th percentile Monte Carlo outcomes, our bull and bear cases are ~$3.1 …
Elon Musk says SpaceX Starship will departs for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Optimus. If those landings go well, then human landings may start as soon as 2029, although 2031 is more likely. There will likely be hundreds to thousands of Optimus Teslabots on the unmanned missions. There will be a larger …
What is we used all of the solar energy on Mars to power an AI data center? How many 1000-watt GPUs can be powered? Calculate the Total Solar Power Intercepted by Mars Mars receives solar energy based on the sunlight hitting its cross-sectional area. The radius of Mars is approximately 3,390 km. 36 trillion square …