How the most powerful rockets in history are speeding up a new race to the Moon
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech … -moon.html
NASA and SpaceX are building two gigantic launch vehicles with massive thrust, which they hope will help humans set foot on the lunar surface again this decade
Thanks for your review of the Debbie Downer pieces! It's good to know there are people earning income by publishing such sentiment.
Regarding your closing question ... I'm not sure if that is your text, but assuming it is, what is your definition of the word "space"?
It's possible what Bob Smith is describing is flights to the Von Karmann line, which the company is doing, and those are (apparently) profitable because there are customers willing to pay for a few minutes of weightless flight.
Perhaps your comment is about the use of the word space in this context?
Oh! I think I see the problem .... what Bob Smith said was captured by a reporter/writer, who used inaccurate language ...
The writer also lumped Blue Origin and SpaceX together, although their achievements have been in quite different realms.
Blue Origin is taking a methodical approach to flight, using the far more difficult hydrogen and oxygen combination ...
Google came up with this:
The New Shepard propulsion module is powered using a Blue Origin BE-3 bipropellant rocket engine burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, although some early development work was done by Blue Origin on engines operating with other propellants: the BE-1 engine using monopropellant hydrogen peroxide; and the BE-2 ...
Blue Origin New Shepard - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › New_Shepard
About Featured Snippets
Blue Origin has not lost a single vehicle.
I think this is a tortoise/hare comparison ...
Use of Hydrogen is the better choice for the long run, on a number of counts.
****
Thanks again for your many posts bringing old topics back to life with new links and comments.
(th)
]]>And sometimes just ... Making no sense whatsoever:
"Blue Origin and SpaceX are serious space-hauling companies. Apparently, it's also a profitable business. Said Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith: "We make money on every flight.""
wut? In what parallel dimension is BO doing flights to space????
]]>Not Another...negative nancy debbie downer
I stopped reading at: SCOTT GALLOWAY
Guy has interesting, even valid points on other subjects, but is too set in his thinking towards big companies to see the bigger picture of spaceflight. /shrugs/
]]>A business, podcast and marketing at the New York University Stern School?
SCOTT GALLOWAY:
https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-g … ets-2021-6
Colonizing Mars will not happen in our lifetime and the billionaire obsession with space makes absolutely no sense
Elon Musk Criticizes NASA, Says Spaceships Should Fly Between Space Stations
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk … -amendment
But we might see two nations developing on Mars. An English-speaking Free Republic of Mars and a Chinese CCP-PLA Colony.
Elon Musk’s outsider status ‘key to SpaceX success’
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/busine … f5f0f78831China reveals plans to colonise space with a Mars base, cargo fleets, alien cities, and a ‘sky ladder’
https://news.yahoo.com/china-reveals-pl … 17208.htmlMusk Criticizes NASA, Says Spaceships Should Fly Between Space Stations
https://twitter.com/TheMarsSociety/stat … 4900643840
Elon Musk took to Twitter (surprise!) to criticize NASA for signaling it would continue prohibiting direct cooperation between the agency and China indefinitely.
The china ladder from heaven might be possible from a geo orbit but that firs step is a dozy if you miss....
]]>China reveals plans to colonise space with a Mars base, cargo fleets, alien cities, and a ‘sky ladder’
https://news.yahoo.com/china-reveals-pl … 17208.html
Musk Criticizes NASA, Says Spaceships Should Fly Between Space Stations
https://twitter.com/TheMarsSociety/stat … 4900643840
Elon Musk took to Twitter (surprise!) to criticize NASA for signaling it would continue prohibiting direct cooperation between the agency and China indefinitely.
Musk's SpaceX reveals ambitious plans to launch a Starship rocket to MARS from an 'ocean spaceport' in 2022
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech … light.html
Nelson uses Chinese Mars landing as a warning to Congress
https://spacenews.com/nelson-uses-chine … -congress/
Thanks for those links. In this post I'd like to focus on the "9 places" report, because I am confident it will drive Louis crazy!
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex- … ise-2019-9
By using solar (or perhaps nuclear) energy, Musk says, a process called the Sabatier reaction could turn water and carbon dioxide in the thin Martian atmosphere into methane. That fuel, along with oxygen extracted from the water, could be used to refuel Starships for return flights to Earth as well as provide breathable air and drinking water.
I am happy to see this first hint that the SpaceX time is moving toward including nuclear power in their thinking.
(th)
]]>https://www.spacex.com/starship
The ship is only part of the dream as the distination is what makes it complete.
SpaceX is eyeing these 9 places on Mars for landing its first Starship rocket missions
]]>A fusion driven rocket can achieve 50% useful payload mass fraction with a 3 month transit time. I'm primarily interested in sending people and the implements of civilization to Mars, not giant gas tanks loaded with cryogenic explosives. We need something better than refinements to mid-20th century rocket technology for humanity to expand beyond Earth.
]]>