Floating A Trial Balloon For Space Tourism

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In a spaceship context, I suppose “shore” could mean either a space station or a ground based spaceport. Unlike tramp freighters these ships are cargo liners, operating as “common carriers” and calling a regularly published schedule of ports. The Water Ship is a robot propellant tanker design by Anthony Zuppero. Its mission is to deliver 50,000 metric tons of valuable water from the Martian moon Deimos to orbital propellant depots in Low Earth Orbit cheaply and repeatably. It is not much more than a huge water bladder perched on a NERVA rocket engine. It might have integral water mining equipment as does the Kuck Mosquito, or it might depend upon a seperate Deimos ice mine.

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In July 2016, SpaceX acquired an additional 8,000 sq ft creative space in Irvine, California to focus on satellite communications. The Federal Communications Commission awarded SpaceX with nearly US$900 million worth of federal subsidies to support rural broadband customers through the company’s Starlink satellite internet network. SpaceX won subsidies to bring service to customers in 35 U.S. states. SuperDraco is a hypergolic liquid-propellant rocket engine that, like Draco, uses monomethyl hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide propellants.

The currently operational second generation Dragon spacecraft, known as Dragon 2, conducted its first flight, without crew, to the ISS in early 2019, followed by a crewed flight of Dragon 2 in 2020. Dragon 2 is capable of transporting a crew of up to four in NASA configuration to low Earth orbit. The small-lift Falcon 1 was the first launch vehicle developed and was retired in 2009. The medium-lift Falcon 9 and the heavy-lift Falcon Heavy are both operational.

The four-person mission will be commanded by Jared Isaacman, a tech entrepreneur and pilot on the side. Isaacman is the founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, a payment processing firm, and will be bankrolling the mission that has been named “Inspiration4.” During the launch, the rocket will give off two harmless barium clouds that will affect the Earth’s magnetic field. Unlike past missions from Wallops involving vapor, the barium will not produce clouds as colorful, NASA said.

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A screen shot from Blue Origin’s live feed showed, from left, Oliver Daemen, Jeff Bezos and Wally Funk disembarking the crew capsule. Mr. Bezos has described a vision of humanity’s future that is influenced by the proposals of Gerard K. O’Neill, a Princeton physicist. In the 1970s, Dr. O’Neill proposed giant cylinder-shape space colonies that in great enough numbers would support far more people and industry than are possible on Earth.

So you have this sensation like you’re lurching forward but then you come to a stop when the engines cut. You feel like you’re sitting straight up in a dining room chair, except that you’re still strapped down flat on your back. The driver pulled up to the launchpad, let us out, then turned and high-tailed it out of the blast zone.

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Starlink is an internet satellite constellation that will use 4,425 cross-linked communications satellites. Starlink aims to generate operating income that will be used to fund further projects like its ambitious Mars colony. Reported by the New York Post, the Star Trek actor spilled his feelings during a New York Comic Con panel last week. Among an advertisement for his new album, Bill, the actor vented about the vast unknowns in our universe. We’re told Shatner will be on board in October for the 15-minute civilian flight — similar to the last launch. What we don’t know — BUT WHAT WOULD BE AWESOME — is if he wears his Capt. Kirk getup.

Here are 10 examples from recent history that reminds us of how tough this business can be—and how we can learn from our mistakes. “‘You know, they are starting to send these rockets up with people into space. Wouldn’t it be something if Captain Kirk went up there,'” Ehrlich said to Shatner. William Shatner spoke to a crowd at New York Comic Con on Thursday evening, just days before he will blast into space on a sub-orbital flight. Most of Russia is well north of the equator, which limits geostationary satellites’ usefulness. So the Russians came up with an alternative called the Molniya orbit.