Turning a big idea into reality often comes down to convincing the right people to throw money at it. The Starburst Accelerator Global Summit, happening Thursday, gives 10 inventors a chance to pitch their ideas in front of agencies like NASA, venture capitalists, and aerospace companies, including Boeing and Lockheed Martin. And, even more excitingly,…
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NASA Just Created An Internet For Whole Solar System
Short: Making the communication systems more reliable for its future missions, NASA and Google VP Vint Cerf has created a Solar System Internet service. Called DTN, or Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking, this service is already incorporated in the software suite at the International Space Station. NASA has laid down the foundation of a future internet network for our…
SpaceX And Blue Origin Fight To Win The Modern Space Race
From a dusty expanse in West Texas, Jeff Bezos and the crew of Blue Origin, his well-funded aerospace company, fire up their New Shepard rocket. It rises vertically, thrusting into the heavens at more than 2,800 mph. The unmanned crew capsule it’s carrying detaches and it crests roughly 64 miles above sea level, and the…
How Elon Musk Started
Elon Musk is now Earth’s most future-oriented person. How did such a person come to be? In a hundred years, when most people reading this and the person writing this are long gone, Musk’s cars and rockets will still be circling the Earth and the skies. How can such a person get started against all…
New Paper Explains How The “Impossible” EM Drive Might Work
The controversial EM Drive might soon become a lot less controversial if a new hypothesis about how it works is confirmed. According to a new study, published in AIP Advances, from researchers in Finland, the EM drive is not a true propeller-less engine, so it does not violate the third law of dynamics. The physicists suggest that…
Transport of Saturn V Rocket Stage to Stennis Space Center a Matter of Real History
History both repeated and foreshadowed itself with transport of the S-IC-15 Saturn V rocket stage to NASA’s Stennis Space Center this month. It repeated in literal fashion. The stage was transported from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility to Stennis Space Center on June 16, via the same water route it took more than 45 years ago…
Bentley used NASA technology to take this 53-billion-pixel picture of a car
Look at the image above. Pretty nice picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, huh? Well, WRONG. It’s actually a pretty nice picture of a $330,000 car, the Bentley Mulsanne. You can’t see the vehicle at this distance, but you can visit Bentley’s website and zoom inyourself. It goes from panoramic view of the bridge, all the…
‘Test Like You Fly’: What Qualification Means for SLS Rocket
The word “qualification” has become quite synonymous with testing and building the world’s most powerful rocket, NASA’s Space Launch System, which will make missions possible to an asteroid and the journey to Mars. So, what does it mean for rocket parts to be “qualified” for the mission of going to deep space? And how does that…
NASA’s new Apple TV app lets you live stream launches and check on the space station
These days, if you want to watch a NASA-sanctioned rocket launch or astronauts play on the International Space Station, you typically reach for your computer. You can always watch these kinds of space activities on TV with NASA’s cable channel, but for those who don’t want to shill out money for that, online broadcasts through…
Earth’s Third Van Allen Radiation Belt Made By A “Space Tsunami”
Earth’s incredible magnetic field is not only useful when using a compass. It is there to protect us, and life on Earth would not be possible without it. The magnetic field stops energetic particles and it traps them in large swarms around the planet in zones that we call Van Allen radiation belts. Two of…
CURIOSITY ROVER BEAMS BACK PHOTO OF STALKING MECHANICAL ROBOT ON MARS
It’s a rock…it’s a natural formation…No, it’s just a giant robot that’s peeking on NASA’s unaware Curiosity rover. Mars seems to (unofficially) have it all. From liquid water, to living creatures that crawl over the rocky surface, to flying unidentified objects, and even dusty relics reminding of a complex culture that had once flourished in…
Former NASA employee claims to have seen Men walking on Mars in 1979
According to statements from a former NASA employee, there were secret manned mission to Mars over 20 years ago. According to the women who has been nicknamed ‘Jackie’, she and six other employees saw the exact same thing, suggesting this might be the evidence that proves that a secret space program did exist ( or…