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Elon Musk indicates that SpaceX will for orbit with Starship as soon as possible after the 20-kilometer test. The timing is based upon building the increased number of Raptor engines. Three Raptor engines for the 20-kilometer flight Six Raptor engines …

By 2060 the Airplane Industry Will Be Mostly Gone

The gravity wave detections were in 2015 when Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) researchers detected the impact of two black holes. On October 1st, LIGO’s Hanford (LHO) and Livingston (LLO) detectors will temporarily halt observations to undergo a series of …

The weird orbits of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) and an excess amount of microlensing events in the 5-year OGLE dataset can be simultaneously explained by a new population of astrophysical bodies with mass several times that of Earth. Researchers propose that …

Elon Musk had an interview with the Everyday Astronaut. Elon reiterated that he changed to steel construction for the rocket when carbon fiber was taking too long. Carbon fiber was a standard in the rocket industry. SpaceX Falcon Heavy use …

Age of Steel Spaceliners

Jim Bridenstine congratulated SpaceX on Starship and then poked them about the Commercial Crew program being year late. My statement on @SpaceX's announcement tomorrow: pic.twitter.com/C67MhSeNsa — Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) September 27, 2019 NASA technical people and NASA Director Bridenstine know …