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Jul 18, 2018

NASA’s Sending a Satellite to the Sun

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Mankind is about to get closer to the sun than ever before.

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Jul 13, 2018

Satellite startups turn to reinventing broadband, mapping and other industries

Posted by in categories: computing, mapping, mobile phones, satellites

Smartphones have disrupted transportation, payments and communication. But the underlying technology has tangentially changed a completely different sector: satellites.

The advances made in miniaturizing technologies that put a computer in your pocket — cameras, batteries, processors, radio antennas — have also made it easier and cheaper for entrepreneurs to launch matter into space. And investors are taking notice.

The chart below shows worldwide venture and PE investment in satellite technology companies.

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Jul 13, 2018

Giant Satellite Fuel Tank Sets New Record for 3D Printed Space Parts

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, energy, satellites

DENVER, July 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has embraced a 3D printed titanium dome for satellite fuel tanks so big you can’t even put your arms around it. The 46-inch- (1.16-meter-) diameter vessel completed final rounds of quality testing this month, ending a multi-year development program to create giant, high-pressure tanks that carry fuel on board satellites.

A Lockheed Martin engineer inspects one of the 3D printed dome prototypes at the company's space facility in Denver. The final dome measures 46 inches in diameter, large enough to fit 74.4 gallons of liquid.

The titanium tank consists of three parts welded together: two 3D printed domes that serve as caps, plus a variable-length, traditionally-manufactured titanium cylinder that forms the body.

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Jul 2, 2018

Cube Satellite

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Congrats!


Pinaplano na ng DOST ang paggawa ng cube satellites dito sa Pilipinas matapos makarating sa outer space ang unang cube satellite na gawang Pinoy.

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Jun 29, 2018

While some NW space companies show progress, asteroid miner Planetary Resources is in rocky shape

Posted by in categories: economics, satellites

Talk of commercial missions to the moon, constellations of satellites, space tourism, and a trillion-dollar space economy filled the NewSpace conference in Renton Tuesday. There was also a cautionary tale.

Dominic Gates

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Jun 28, 2018

Earth Views from the Space Station

Posted by in categories: habitats, satellites

Behold, the Earth! See live views of Earth from the coming to you by NASA’s High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment.


Behold, the Earth! See live views of Earth from the International Space Station coming to you by NASA’s High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment.

While the experiment is operational, views will typically sequence through the different cameras. If you are seeing a black image, the Space Station is on the night side of the Earth. If you are seeing an image with text displayed, the communications are switching between satellites and camera feeds are temporarily unavailable. Between camera switches, a black & gray slate will also briefly appear.

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Jun 27, 2018

The rockets that are pushing the boundaries of space travel

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Friday morning at 5:24 am (0924 GMT), a rocket owned by the US company SpaceX will blast off from Florida carrying two and a half tons of gear from NASA, only to dock three days later and 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth at the International Space Station.

The itself is not new. It launched a NASA satellite into orbit two months ago, then landed back on Earth—upright—on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Canaveral.

Even the Dragon capsule, carrying the cargo and affixed to the top of the rocket was used before, having flown a mission to the ISS in 2016.

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Jun 23, 2018

This floating robotic factory will build satellites and spaceships in orbit

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, robotics/AI, satellites

The Archinaut, a system made of 3D printers and robotic arms, could be the flying factory humans need to colonize space.

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Jun 21, 2018

Air Force certifies Falcon Heavy, orders satellite launch for 2020

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I want to thank the Air Force for certifying Falcon Heavy.

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Jun 18, 2018

Aevum’s New Rocket-Drone Airplane Duo Could Launch Satellites Every 3 Hours

Posted by in categories: drones, robotics/AI, satellites

A space launch every 3 hours may soon be possible using rockets carried on a fully autonomous unmanned airplane, a new startup company suggests.

Alabama-based startup Aevum aims to per mission, using an air-launch system called Ravn.

“Ravn is designed to launch every 180 minutes,” Jay Skylus, Aevum’s CEO and chief launch architect, told Space.com. “Other launch vehicles fly only a handful of times a year with an average of 18 months of lead time.” [Rocket Launches: The Latest Liftoffs, Photos & Videos].

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