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People writing about #space #exploration are mostly #cheerleaders 🥳 for the cause, rather than #independent #observers keeping a watchful eye https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2022/06/23/new-book-paints-bleak-picture-of-nasas-human-spaceflight-program

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" 🇪🇺 needs to decide to schedule 6's before its ,” https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-arianespace-rocket-space-race
📆 October 25, 2022 boss insists ’s 🇪🇺 new 🚀 can with Musk’s 🤦‍♂️ He wants the Continent's to back plans 💰 to develop technologies that would make up Ariane 7. https://www.politico.eu/article/ariane-boss-insists-europee-new-rocket-can-compete-with-elon-musks-spacex

Pictures (combined)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ariane_5_ECA_VA223.jpg | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ariane6_logo.svg

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While #NASA makes its budgetary decisions every year, and includes private companies in its strategies, the #ESA approves its spending once every three years after tortuous project-by-project haggling among its 22 member countries.
The #EU 🇪🇺 has a seven-year budget cycle. #China 🇨🇳 and the #US 🇺🇸 make decisions much quicker https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-space-pioneers-struggle-to-lift-off/

#SpacePolitics

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: "the operational costs alone for a single launch—for just the , spacecraft, and ground systems—will total $4.1 billion" 💰💰💰💰 * https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/nasa-inspector-general-says-sls-costs-are-unsustainable

4.1 billion / ~100k kg = 41.000 $ / kg 🤔

  • As of Inspector General Paul Martin 📆 Mar 1, 2022
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There is no at the but only instruments it.

"During a future mission, if a solar ☀️ radiation squall were to occur while are beyond ’s magnetic bubble, they might tell the crew to a temporary shelter" https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/how-nasa-protects-astronauts-from-space-radiation-at-moon-mars-solar-cosmic-rays

’s IDA, instruments provided by , will fly inside * to potential radiation inside https://www.nasa.gov/feature/gateway-a-deep-space-home-and-so-much-more

*Habitation and Logistics Outpost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitation_and_Logistics_Outpost

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#NASA's budget also proposes to spend $4 billion 💰💰💰💰 for a #LunarGateway that will not be used during the first lunar landing. The Gateway is #unnecessary for actual #lunar 🌙 landings. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/nasa-leader-warns-agency-needs-more-funding-to-fly-artemis-missions

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"#Starship is already larger than the proposed #Gateway, and it replicates many of its power and propulsion capabilities. So why spend a decade ⏳ and tens of billions 💰💰💰💰 of dollars building the Gateway ?" https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/3537105-its-time-for-nasa-to-cancel-the-lunar-gateway/

"Gateway has received mostly negative 👎 reactions from #space professionals" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Gateway#Criticism

#NASA’s Gateway Utilization Town Hall 📆 Jan. 31, 2024 https://www.nasa.gov/general/gateway-utilization-town-hall

#LunarGateway

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Why was the Search for Intelligence () 👽 unsuccessful so far ?

🦠 appeared pretty much as soon as it could, right when the formed and our stopped being a molten 🌋 hellscape. That might have been as early as 3.7 billion years ago. But life appeared basically yesterday—what we identify as anatomically modern humans arose about 120,000 years ago. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/05/were-essentially-alone-in-the-universe-and-thats-ok

Pictures : :ccby: :cc_sa: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nature_timespiral_horizontal_layout_white_background.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space-ship-763493.svg

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The Rotary National Award for Achievement (RNASA) Foundation has selected Gwynne , President and COO of , to receive the 2023 National Space Trophy 🏆 https://rnasa.org/2023files/press2023.html

Gwynne Shotwell manages 's . Shotwell was the 11th employee of SpaceX, and joined the company in 📆 2002 https://www.forbes.com/profile/gwynne-shotwell

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☄️protection : is made of 4mm stainless steel. The got so-called "Whipple shields". The future of 🛡️ could stem from ongoing research into “self-healing” shields, materials that themselves after they’re hit https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-do-you-shield-astronauts-and-satellites-from-deadly-micrometeorites-3911799

Pictures : debris holes, panel hit by https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_debris_impact_on_Space_Shuttle_window.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS-118_debris_entry.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMM_panel_hole.jpg

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📆 2023/02/16 Four 4️⃣ private planned

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"It's going to be a small percentage that is going to be funding these " so each project needs "to go out and raise 💰 to do this." https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/investing-in-space-the-space-station-kingmaker.html

Several other in this article :

Pictures : "Langley engineers check out the interior of the 24-foot in 📆 1962.", , approaches Kibo laboratory https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langley_engineers_inside_inflatable_a_24-foot_spacestation_mock-up.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bigelow_Aerospace_facilities.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crew-2_dragon_approach.jpg

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📆 06 Mar 2023 "The 🎈structures https://youtu.be/pGcdrxB2Qow are not as fragile as they might seem. They are constructed of a fabric similar to the Kevlar material used in vests, and their multiple layers offer a good degree of protection. There are plans to use them to build small for ." https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-03-06/nasas-plans-for-the-end-of-the-iss-private-space-stations-and-hotels-with-an-earth-view.html

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's three-year delay could have bought 86 📊 launches of the reusable 🚀 or 52 of the expendable version https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/three-years-of-sls-development-could-buy-86-falcon-heavy-launches/

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📆 Sept. 2011 is home to ’s Mission Control and is where NASA’s are launched from. The two played key roles in writing the NASA blueprint and outlining many of the rocket they wanted NASA to build, leading critics to call it the . Critics note that NASA has announced ambitious rocket plans before, only to cancel them as and slipped https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/science/space/15nasa.html

📆 Apr. 2011 "The best bang for the buck 💵 investment in our future is a system where industrial activities such as carrying freight and building buildings are done by people who do them everywhere else in our society -- the sector -- rather than an single-use government program" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-senate-launch-system_b_843607

📆 Aug 24th 2022 "powered by yesterday’s and brought about by yesterday’s " https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/24/nasas-space-launch-system-is-yesterdays-rocket

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Two launches could launch 100% of the payload to be launched by , Block II, the heavy lift version of Artemis. Falcon Heavy could do this at a cost of approximately $200 million 💵 for 2 Falcon Heavy launches, versus $4 billion 💰 for one launch of Artemis. https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-the-Falcon-heavy-being-used-to-go-to-the-moon-Assuming-that-you-can-install-a-moon-lander-on-top-of-it

📆 Apr 2019 For the first time a senior official had opened the door to NASA flying its first crewed missions to the on a built by https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/nasa-chief-says-a-falcon-heavy-rocket-could-fly-humans-to-the-moon/

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@guardian 📆 Sun 13 Nov 2022 start 1.04 am EST (6.04 am GMT) Wednesday, : "Analysts, including Nasa’s own inspector general, see the program’s $93bn 💰 tag, including $4.1bn for each of the first launches, as " https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/13/nasa-artemis-1-rocket-moon-launch-next-week

Pictures :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SLS_on_39B_ahead_of_launch_(cropped).jpg | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starship_%26_Moonset.jpg | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Price_Tag_Flat_Icon_Vector.svg

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A single engine on 's costs roughly the same amount 💰 that the paid for an entire mission on the rocket 🚀 https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/inspector-general-on-nasas-plans-to-reduce-sls-costs-highly-unrealistic/

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📆 May 2021 "The known of damage caused by came as early as 📆 1969. An had fallen from and hit a that was traveling off the of , five crewmen. initially kept that a 🕵️, out of a desire to avoid provoking a conflict with " https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/08/space-debris-crashes

Picture (symbolic) :cc_zero: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A13656.jpg

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If you know interesting #spaceflight companies 🏭, please add* them to #OpenStreetMap https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/aerospace:product. Map 🗺️ with details via #OverpassTurbo https://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=%22aerospace%3Aproduct%22%3D*+global&R

Usage example : 🗺️ https://industry.openmaps.space

#SpaceCompany #OpenData

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#Space #LaserPropulsion concept, traveling into #DeepSpace at 480,000 km/h : Pellet-beam propulsion #spacecraft could reach #Voyager 1 🛰️ in 5 years https://interestingengineering.com/science/pellet-beam-propulsion-spacecraft-voyager

Voyager positions : https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status

Picture : Voyager 1 trajectory in the sky from #earth from 1977-2030 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voyager_1_skypath_1977-2030.png

#SpacecraftPropulsion

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#Voyager found that 75% of the #CosmicRays heading our way from #InterstellarSpace 🌌 get filtered out in the #heliosphere’s outer reaches. If the encounter with the next cloud squeezes the heliosphere all the way down to #Earth’s #orbit, life forms would be exposed to an intense #radiation environment that would riddle #DNA 🧬 with mutations. There’s evidence of such an event around the time early #hominids were just beginning to pick up stone tools https://www.science.org/content/article/voyager-steroids-mission-probe-mysterious-region-beyond-solar-system

#DeepSpace #Research

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📆 October 19, 2023 The 🇪🇺 Summit that will be held in , Spain 🇪🇸 , on 📆 November 6 and 7 is a crucial event for the continent's technological future. The delay ⏳ of the European and the technical problems are only the tip of the iceberg. For every euro 💶 invested, is ten times more efficient 📊 https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/10/19/the-european-space-industry-needs-to-get-its-act-together-before-it-s-too-late_6187587_23.html

"Revolution Space" report 📄 https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/corporate/h-lag_brochure.pdf

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The delay ⏳ of the 🇪🇺 launchers and the technical problems are only the tip of the iceberg. For every euro 💶 invested, is ten times more efficient, and the only way to increase is to introduce https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/10/19/the-european-space-industry-needs-to-get-its-act-together-before-it-s-too-late_6187587_23.html

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#Starship "The reason that it actually didn’t quite make it to #orbit was we vented the liquid oxygen, and the liquid oxygen ultimately led to a fire 🔥 and an explosion 💥. We wanted to vent the liquid oxygen because we normally wouldn’t have that liquid oxygen if we had a payload. Ironically, if it had a #payload, it would have reached orbit". Jessica Jensen, #SpaceX's vice president anticipates getting a commercial launch license 📄 from the #FAA in February. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/elon-musks-recent-all-hands-meeting-at-spacex-was-full-of-interesting-news/

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Should I switch the server as my admin is blocking @spacex (the whole server) ?

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"At #SpaceX we specialize in converting things from #impossible to #late" (for example a #launch tower which shall #catch the booster). Above phrase at 2:10 https://youtu.be/XP5k3ZzPf_0

#RocketScience #ReusableLaunchVehicle #SpaceCompany

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