Space

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• Launch your question into MIT's Danielle Wood's Answers session

  What is Space Enabled? What projects are you working on? What do you see as some of the most exciting projects in space exploration right now? How can satellite systems save the world? Ask all this and more to MIT Media Lab's Director of Space Enabled, Danielle Wood. Danielle's ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Mining asteroids could make us super duper rich. Let’s get started

  Several privately funded space companies are locked in a race to claim the trillions of pounds worth of precious metals thought to exist in asteroids. The UK has now entered the race, with the Asteroid Mining Corporation becoming the first of these new firms in the country. In ...

  • The Conversation

• Train like an astronaut with this NASA-approved mobile app

  Few of us will ever get to step foot on a space shuttle but that doesn't mean we're incapable of training like those who do. What is it? Space Nation Navigator is a mobile app that trains aspiring astronauts (or those wanting to train like them) in three core areas: body, mind, ...

  • Bryan Clark

• NASA's new Galactic Positioning System could lead to truly autonomous spacecraft

  NASA is taking the global out of GPS. Its new Galactic Positioning System could revolutionize space travel for people and ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The view from heaven: Watch the first 3D VR video filmed in space

  National Geographic and astronauts aboard the International Space Station filmed the first 3D VR experience in space, and ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Fledgling space startups are finding a niche in very low Earth orbits

  In The Art of War, Sun Tzu famously advised, “When the enemy occupies high ground, do not confront him.” But disruptive startup companies are famously irreverent, and so perhaps it is no surprise that scrappy new space ventures are challenging the Old Guard in orbit by doing the ...

  • Lyon B. King

• Bezos says he'll spend 'Amazon lottery winnings' on space travel

  (Bloomberg) -- Jeff Bezos wants to make space travel as dynamic and entrepreneurial as the internet. “The price of admission to space is very high,” Bezos said Saturday night in New York, accepting the Buzz Aldrin Space Exploration Award at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner. ...

  • Amanda Gordon

• New thruster tech converts air molecules into fuel for orbiting satellites

  The European Space Agency created the world's first thruster which allows satellites to remain in orbit for years longer than they currently do. The secret? The thruster runs on particles of air in the atmosphere. Others have tried to improve the staying power of satellites before, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• IBM's Watson is going to space

  IBM's Watson will provide the AI brain for an Airbus designed robot that'll be joining astronauts aboard the International ...

  • Tristan Greene

• SpaceX's satellites for beaming internet access to earth are now in orbit

  SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket that delivered two Starlink satellites for delivering broadband access ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• SpaceX is launching its broadband satellites into orbit this weekend [Update: Make that February 21]

  Elon Musk's SpaceX is gearing up for its next mission: sending satellites into orbit so they can beam down internet access ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Falcon Heavy is a fully reusable middle-finger to the environment

    SpaceX has now launched the most powerful spacecraft since the Apollo era – the Falcon Heavy rocket – setting ...

  • The Conversation