The Chinese Are Working On Space-based Solar Power

     Human civilization requires a great deal of energy to continue to operate and expand. Fossil fuels are going to be retired to help mitigate climate change. Nuclear power plants are popular in a few countries, but many existing power plants are being shut down as the industrialized West turns away from nuclear power.

Chinese Researchers Develop Improved Method Of Detecting And Tracking Orbital Debris

    One major problem confronting the exploration and exploitation of space is the amount of space junk in orbit around the earth. Old satellites, spent boosters, tools and debris from the International Space Station, and fragments and flakes of paint and metal from collisions between pieces of orbital junk make launching missions more dangerous that it once was.

Rocket Lab Developed A Robot To Build Their Electron Launch Vehicles

     Rocket Lab is a private U.S. aerospace manufacture and smallsat launch service provider. It has a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. It developed a suborbital sounding rocket called Atea. It currently operates a lightweight two-stage orbital launch vehicle called the Electron.

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