The cost of launching things into orbit is about ten thousand dollars per pound. It takes complex heavy equipment and fuel to get anything to orbit. This means that making payloads as light as possible is important. NASA has used a variety of techniques to reduce the weight that has to be thrown into orbit in order to be useful.
I live in Seattle, Washington. While this blog is not restricted geographically, I am especially sensitive to space industry news that involves Boeing, a major local industry. Today, problems with a Boeing satellite which is no longer functioning.
I live in Seattle, Washington. While this blog is not restricted geographically, I am especially sensitive to space industry news that involves Boeing, a major local industry. Today, I am writing about Boeing’s participation in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a reusable spaceplane.
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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.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is Japan’s biggest airline. They are teaming up with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on the formation of Robot X.
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.
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