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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. ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 bar for future space launches. The most important thing about this reusable spacecraft is that it can carry a payload equivalent to sending five double-decker ...
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Rocket man can't get it up: Proof of a flat Earth still eludes
Hobbyist rocketeer "Mad" Mike Hughes has again failed to launch. Hughes, you may remember, promised last November to launch himself 550 meters (1,800 feet) into space using a homemade rocket in an attempt to prove the Earth flat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fpoTg5P334&feature=youtu.be His ...
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Rogue Chinese space station is on a collision course with Earth
The Tiangong-1 is should reenter the atmosphere sometime between now and early next year. We don't know because no one's ...
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SpaceX's Interplanetary Spaceship and Rocket simulation is out of this world
Elon Musk today gave us our first glimpse at what interplanetary travel and colonization could look like. In an Instagram ...
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk gives us a first glimpse at the SpaceX spacesuit
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Instagram to share the very first images of SpaceX's own spacesuit – and it looks absolutely ...
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Scientists create a holographic microscope to find aliens
Scientists at Caltech have created a Digital Holographic Microscope that may be used to find life in the icy moons of Saturn ...
