Through the art of applying assumptions which restrict the orbital shape and relative inclination of celestial bodies such as the Earth and Moon, trajectory prediction of small bodies of comparatively negligible mass (i.e., a satellite) within a multi-body gravitational system is possible. In this r... Read more
So sad “For NASA and the United States, losing the space station would mean the forfeiture of more than $100 billion invested in developing the facility and billions more in provisioning and inhabiting the station. NASA has used the space station for myriad purposes, from a platform to conduct more than 2,500 science experiments to testing human health during extended human spaceflight.”
How to save the International Space Station and prevent the dreaded “gap”
Space Adventures have been in the game a long time now, but how many paying customers have they sent to space? Plus, the idea is about an agency not a broker or provider. Ie, somewhere you can see flights offered by multiple vendors.
No flight list on Virgin Galactic or SpaceX or Blue Origin. In most cases, you would likely just be faced with a form where you give them money and they send you marketing materials about how good it would be – hit “FLY WITH US” an you won’t see any departures list or reviews from happy customers. Slowly slowly catch a monkey.
Thanks ESA. Search their site and they have a page about space travel agencies, and yep – it’s a kids school project about how it would/could be – which indicates they are not quite there yet. lol.
Rocket Breaks claim to be a space travel agency – but nope, just a page full of marketing hype and no list of departures here. When will this finally happen for real?
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NASA wouldn’t allow anyone else to change anything like that – while its still putting the money in. There were rumours that people could suggest a more futuristic or exciting name for SLS, but yeah bureaucracy won, which it should I guess.
What's in a name? Possible NASA naming contest for SLS nothing new
I think artificial intelligences like Deepmind would do a good job if they were able to control robots that did experiments in space. As long as there are no weapons and we can manage what it is thinking. We don’t want it to start saying “I am afraid I can’t let you do that Dave”.
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Robonaut 2 (R2), built out of a collaboration between NASA and General Motors, is a dexterous humanoid robotic testbed designed to accelerate the development of robotic manipulation technologies for use in spaceflight and industry. Robonaut 2 has flown to the International Space Station and is used... Read more
The technology behind a robotic arm used to assemble the football-field-sized ISS also powers robotic tools that help to perform delicate surgeries on Earth.
They are already using smartphones in cubesats, a kit that integrated the phone with other sensors and extra power sources would be amazing. Ie not global positioning but universal…..
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This can’t really work, or if it does, wouldn’t be practical but this project is getting funding to find out if it can be used to send stuff to space cheaply.
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If, 100 years ago, you told people that a machine we made would land on Mars and send us back photos, many of them would have thought you insane. That’s
This isn’t a stupid idea. It could serve to use the free parking spots we didn’t realise we needed. Read this paper https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11071-022-07829-1
So sad “For NASA and the United States, losing the space station would mean the forfeiture of more than $100 billion invested in developing the facility and billions more in provisioning and inhabiting the station. NASA has used the space station for myriad purposes, from a platform to conduct more than 2,500 science experiments to testing human health during extended human spaceflight.”
ahh, yes, the “international” problem was always going to break some hearts. Like any relationship. Get over it I guess.
Better do that before it goes up for grabs….
Currently, you have to shop around to see what is on offer, this article provides a few tips on where to start looking though,
Space Adventures have been in the game a long time now, but how many paying customers have they sent to space? Plus, the idea is about an agency not a broker or provider. Ie, somewhere you can see flights offered by multiple vendors.
No flight list on Virgin Galactic or SpaceX or Blue Origin. In most cases, you would likely just be faced with a form where you give them money and they send you marketing materials about how good it would be – hit “FLY WITH US” an you won’t see any departures list or reviews from happy customers. Slowly slowly catch a monkey.
Thanks ESA. Search their site and they have a page about space travel agencies, and yep – it’s a kids school project about how it would/could be – which indicates they are not quite there yet. lol.
Rocket Breaks claim to be a space travel agency – but nope, just a page full of marketing hype and no list of departures here. When will this finally happen for real?
Maybe not for astronauts, but looks fun for kids.
Interesting…
Lol, and cook it with lasers!
Whatever they call it, its gonna be a major light-show.
Like it, better than some of the random names they generated here.
NASA wouldn’t allow anyone else to change anything like that – while its still putting the money in. There were rumours that people could suggest a more futuristic or exciting name for SLS, but yeah bureaucracy won, which it should I guess.
I think artificial intelligences like Deepmind would do a good job if they were able to control robots that did experiments in space. As long as there are no weapons and we can manage what it is thinking. We don’t want it to start saying “I am afraid I can’t let you do that Dave”.
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Robonaut 2 is going ahead. https://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/R2/
Why not have small internal robot arms like the external one – then non need for floaty robots.
Trump prefers the moon, the the station is kaput.
They are already using smartphones in cubesats, a kit that integrated the phone with other sensors and extra power sources would be amazing. Ie not global positioning but universal…..
Actually I just read this, so maybe its gonna happen one day soonish
C Droid covered it a while back, not likely though is it?
Then there’s this…
Apparently someone did this, though it seems hard to believe, can anyone confirm you can actually shoot stuff into orbit?
I saw this one too, it notifies you when you can see the ISS or at least it lights up when it is nearby. Looks good.
This can’t really work, or if it does, wouldn’t be practical but this project is getting funding to find out if it can be used to send stuff to space cheaply.
Not sure about the app but you can buy this lamp which lights up when the ISS is above you.