Elon Musk SpaceX Plans Moonbase, Mars City and Terraformed Mars

Highlights of Elon Musk SpaceX Plans for 2024 and Beyond: They have already increased the communication bandwidth of Starlink v2 mini to 188 Gbps. There will be 150 launches of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy in 2024 Increase the speed and cadence of Starship launches. Deploy Version 3 Starlink satellites via Starship in 2024. Start …

Read more

SpaceX Third Starship Orbital Launch Test Tracking to February 2024

Jessica Jensen, vice president of customer operations and integration at SpaceX, said securing an updated Federal Aviation Administration launch license was the key factor driving the schedule for the third Starship test flight. The third flight should be sometime in February 2024. “From a hardware readiness perspective, we are targeting to be ready in January,” …

Read more

ULA First Vulcan Centaur Rocket Launch Two Minutes Away

United Launch Alliance is launching their first Vulcan Centaur rocket. It will carry the Astrobotics Peregrine lunar lander. UPDATE – Launch seems good. Nextbigfuture has another article covering the launch. Vulcan’s first stage is powered by BE-4 engines from Blue Origin, which also will be used on Blue Origin´s New Glenn Rocket. The engines run …

Read more

Plan to Prototype Simple Space Telescope Arrays on the Moon

NASA NIAC willl investigate the details of building a high-resolution, long-baseline, optical imaging interferometer on the lunar surface in conjunction with the Artemis Program. A lunar infrastructure can happen over the next few years through the NASAArtemis Program and the SpaceX Lunar Starsihp. The study of a lunar surface-based interferometer will be a huge step …

Read more

3D Printed Houses in Texas and Later the Moon

The Vulcan 3D printed home construction system is comprised of the Vulcan printer and the Magma portable mixing unit that prepares ICON’s proprietary building material, Lavacrete, for printing. All of this hardware is driven by the BuildOS software suite. BuildOS generates and prepares architecture for printing, then controls the robotic hardware on-site to turn digital …

Read more

NASA Finds Evidence Enceladus is More Habitable and More Likely to Have Microbial Life

Analysis of the Cassini probe data shows evidence for Enceladus habitability a step further. They’ve found strong confirmation of hydrogen cyanide, a molecule that is key to the origin of life. The ocean below the ice of Saturn’s moon holds a powerful source of chemical energy. Unidentified until now, the energy source is in the …

Read more