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LE BOURGET, France – Designers of Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket are crafting a defense against U.S. startup rocket builder Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) even before the next-generation Ariane 6 rocket – itself spurred in part by SpaceX – has been approved for production.
IN THE past year commercial space start-ups have proposed everything from asteroid mining and lunar space-elevators to home-made satellites and private moonshots....
In remarks at D11 today, Musk came across as a visionary leader who, unlike his peers, actually knows what the hell he's doing and isn't afraid to say what he thinks.
The Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress will be held in Dallas TX from August 15th - 18th. It will bring together space scientists, engineers and other experts to discuss the possibilities and implications of interstellar flight...
Via Chuck Black, MikeMongo
The prospects of a robotic manufacturing base operating off Earth is not as far-fetched an idea as it used to be, according to a study published by a team of researchers led by a physicist at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Advances in robotics and remote manufacturing in the form of 3-D printing offer some tantalizing prospects for future designers to consider as they map out the ways to explore and use resources in the solar system. Also, private companies are establishing goals and abilities to use resources available near Earth.
Via Stratocumulus
Secondary-school students can play the ultimate robot game: the annual Zero Robotics tournament turns the International Space Station into a playing field for European students to control minisatellites with self-developed software.
The sub-orbital tourism industry may seem extravagant, but it’s following a similar path the airline industry started on more than 100 years ago. In 1913, flying in a plane — any plane — was more of an unsafe thrill ride available only to the few adventurers willing to risk life and limb. They were flying for the excitement of being at the leading edge of a dangerous new form of travel. By the 1920s and 1930s flying was safer, but it was mostly a luxury reserved only for the wealthy. Fifty years later it had become a boring commodity sold at rock bottom prices to the masses. Space tourism will likely follow the same trajectory, only at a much steeper flight path. We may be too cheap to fly faster, but we’re not too cheap to fly a lot higher. And in the end the desire of a few to fly higher, may help those wanting to fly faster.
Via Stratocumulus
Marquez is former White House Director of Space Policy for President's Bush and Obama Bellevue, Wash. – June 10, 2013 – Planetary Resources, Inc., the asteroid mining company, announced today the hiring of Peter Marquez to lead the company’s global engagement. Marquez will engage with key U.S. government entities on matters of strategic domestic and global interest to assist Planetary Resources in achieving its long-term mission. The company’s objective is to mine near-Earth asteroids using innovative and cost-effective robotic exploration technologies to access raw materials ranging from elements used in rocket fuel to precious metals.
NSS say they "shall have a clear plan of action to market the idea of a livable planet Earth through space solar power to G8 or G20 nations within a year."
La plus grosse fusée jamais construite à ce jour par la NASA, dénommée Space Launch System devrait réaliser son premier vol d’essai à partir de 2017 et initier une nouvelle ère d’exploration spatiale.
Trois spationautes doivent se rendre en orbite à la mi-juin pour poursuivre le développement de la future station spatiale chinoise.
On se souvient de cet astéroïde qui s’est récemment transformé en une boule de feu dans le ciel de Tcheliabinsk. Nous avons eu de la chance que ce ne soit pas plus grave. Que se passera-t-il quand le prochain frappera la Terre?
A pair of executive conference rooms at ESA’s Paris headquarters – normally the scene of sober executive planning – were taken over by 120 passionate space enthusiasts keen to share their visions of the future at the European SpaceUP ‘unconference’.
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PARIS — The 20-nation European Space Agency (ESA), which has been struggling with its governments for more than five years to finance the two-launch ExoMars mission to Mars, on June 17 will sign a final contract for the full 2016 mission and a part of its 2018 companion.
Le Jet Propulsion Laboratory de la NASA et l’université d’Uppsala en Suède ont proposé une idée originale pour aller explorer Europe, la sixième lune de Jupiter formée d’une mer de glace, et y chercher les possibles traces de vie extra-terrestre...
Planetary Resources has what they call "the most audacious mission ever", one that has caught the attention of Star Trek royalty such as Robert Picardo and Brent Spiner.
Solar energy has often been regarded as one of the permanent and clean solutions to the ever increasingly demand for energy in the Industrialized world that we have inherited.
Via Khannea Suntzu
Future explorers on Mars will have to deal with high concentrations of the toxic chemical perchlorate.
NASA scientists think that sliding chunks of frozen carbon dioxide — dry ice — may be responsible for creating track marks on some Martian sand dunes.
Russia's failed Phobos-Grunt Mars moon probe project could be given a second chance in 2022-25, space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano on his first weeks in space"
China and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) will co-host an international seminar on manned spaceflight in Beijing in September, spokeswoman for China's manned space program Wu Ping revealed Monday.
When Burkhard Bilger was at J.P.L., he "heard talk of a survey, perhaps apocryphal, which asked astronauts if they’d go to Mars on a one-way trip. Three-quarters supposedly said yes. “The pilgrims on the Mayflower didn’t hang around Plymouth Rock waiting for a ship to take them back,” the Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin later told me.", he says in this column.
Pour des explorateurs de la planète Mars, les radiations venues de l'espace auraient des conséquences sur la santé.
Aller sur Mars représente environ neuf mois de voyage (253 jours) pour parcourir 560 millions de kilomètres.
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