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All things Space

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Monday, February 24, 2025 10:37 AM

THG

Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn't?

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Monday, March 3, 2025 5:34 AM

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Moon touchdown for Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander private spacecraft

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-moon-touchdown-firef
ly-aerospace-34778659

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Thursday, March 20, 2025 10:12 AM

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Dark energy is a mysterious form of energy that makes up ~70% of the "stuff" in our universe

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2471743-dark-energy-isnt-what-we-
thought-and-that-may-transform-the-cosmos/

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Friday, March 21, 2025 10:47 AM

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What nine months in space does to the human body

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jpyl8g772o

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Thursday, March 27, 2025 9:13 AM

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Researchers develop nanomaterial lightsails to propel next-gen spaceships
https://www.aerospacetestinginternational.com/news/researchers-develop
-nanomaterial-lightsails-to-propel-next-gen-spaceships.html

Laser-powered ultra-thin lightsail to enable high-speed space travel
https://interestingengineering.com/space/researchers-develop-scalable-
laser-powered-lightsails

The latest progress of our Hainan crewed lunar launch site - the construction site of the CZ10 moon shot rocket launch tower.
https://x.com/CNSAWatcher/status/1904123759574782013

Here's a proposal for a Chinese mission to study Neptune & Triton, inc. an atmospheric entry probe, launch ~2033 (annual launch windows).
- Ring, atmos & Triton flyby/entry
- 15+ year lifespan, 30 AU ops
- 2,100 kg probe; dual 300W RTGs
- Aerobraking + multi-flyby trajectory
https://x.com/AJ_FI/status/1905041716509294653#m

Cygnus mission to ISS scrapped after finding spacecraft damage
https://spacenews.com/cygnus-mission-to-iss-scrapped-after-finding-spa
cecraft-damage/

Bizarre Discovery Suggests Galaxies Seem to Spin Clockwise More Often

Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet CO2 for first time
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-webb-telescope-exoplanet.html

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Thursday, April 3, 2025 11:21 AM

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Taebaek to become testbed for lunar mining tech

https://pulse.mk.co.kr/news/english/11279380

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Thursday, April 3, 2025 4:56 PM

THG

Thats great but it's a long way off.

T

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Monday, April 7, 2025 6:25 PM

THG

If you're MAGA, science and the stars don't interest you, so this video won't interest you either. Everybody else, enjoy. I was tempted to post it in the Firefly tribute thread because we have maps of the Verse there. There is a commercial around 7 to 9 minutes in.

T

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 10:39 AM

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Will Trump fire more NASA and Science people, replace them with 'Yes Men' the Creationsit dudes, Silicon Big Tech Bro, the Bannons...Maga! all the ways guys!!

Sean Carroll an American theoretical physicist, quantum mechanics expert, cosmology, Professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Trump is a deeply stupid person, and the stock market is crashing because the captains of Wall Street and industrial CEOs and so forth who have supported Donald Trump are deeply stupid people."

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 3:20 AM

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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson

https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-images-as
teroid-donaldjohanson/

52246 Donaldjohanson from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers (5.0 miles) long and 3.5 kilometers (2.2 miles) discovered on the 2nd day of March 1981.

named after American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, the discoverer of the "Lucy" hominid fossil

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Monday, May 12, 2025 7:31 AM

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news says Trump budget cuts continue

Wandering supermassive black hole spotted devouring star | Astronomers capture rogue black hole shredding star 2,600 light-years from galaxy core

https://www.techspot.com/news/107875-wandering-supermassive-black-hole
-spotted-devouring-star.html

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025 12:02 AM

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China catching up

US policy in Space

I’m an exoplanet scientist. Here’s what we lose if we don’t launch Roman.
https://spacenews.com/im-an-exoplanet-scientist-heres-what-we-lose-if-
we-dont-launch-roman/

UMa3/U1: Is This The Smallest Galaxy Ever Discovered, Or Something Else?
https://www.iflscience.com/uma3u1-is-this-the-smallest-galaxy-ever-dis
covered-or-something-else-79188
Early observations suggested it may be the smallest galaxy we've ever seen, and filled with dark matter.

Did astronomers just discover the smallest galaxy in the universe?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/did-astronomers-just-discover-smallest-1030
00451.html

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Thursday, May 15, 2025 3:48 AM

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Rocket Lab

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Thursday, May 15, 2025 7:25 AM

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Water Ice Found in Another Star System
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/water-ice-found-in-another-star
-system

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Monday, May 19, 2025 9:28 AM

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The Top Fell Off Australia's First Orbital-Class Rocket, Delaying Its Launch
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/05/17/0114259/the-top-fell-off-a
ustralias-first-orbital-class-rocket-delaying-its-launch

How to calculate the solar radiation at any place, any time
https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/14491/how-to-calculat
e-the-solar-radiation-at-any-place-any-time

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Monday, May 19, 2025 10:39 AM

THG

The top fell off? Oh shit...

T

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025 7:20 AM

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The first direct observation of gravitational waves captured the merging of two black holes which emitted 36 septillion yottawatts of power (3.6×104? watts), greater than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe.

https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1925046392726413436

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025 5:39 PM

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China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid

https://spacenews.com/china-launches-tianwen-2-mission-to-sample-near-
earth-asteroid/

Mission to Capture Pieces of an Unusual Asteroid

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/science/china-asteroid-tianwen-2.ht
ml

Earth's "quasi-moon" was likely blasted away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar system's history, a new study suggests.

https://www.space.com/quasi-moon-kamooalewa-giant-lunar-impact

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Thursday, May 29, 2025 6:41 AM

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humanity is going to Mars they say, but the Russians Soviets have been in decay, the ISS is still there, the USA has robots on Mars but so does China and post Apollo US can barely send humans to low orbit anymore.

another Starship explodes

We need your help to save NASA
https://www.planetary.org/advocacy-action-center

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Saturday, May 31, 2025 6:30 AM

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Mysterious surface changes on Jupiter's moon point to something deep below

https://www.newsweek.com/jupiter-moon-europa-webb-ocean-amorphous-wate
r-ice-2078542

China launches spacecraft it says will yield 'groundbreaking discoveries'

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/china-launches-spacecraft-
return-samples-yield-groundbreaking-discoveries-122300781

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Tuesday, June 3, 2025 6:07 AM

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Trump seeks $1 billion for private-sector-led human missions to Mars

https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/trump-seeks-1-billion-for
-private-sector-led-human-missions-to-mars-125053100112_1.html

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Thursday, June 5, 2025 5:26 AM

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Marc Garneau, Canada's first astronaut, has died

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/marc-garneau-dead-at-76/

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Monday, June 9, 2025 4:01 AM

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APOD?

China's Tiangong space station transiting Jupiter

https://x.com/AJ_FI/status/1931771306816811321

NASA pulls the plug on Europa lander, but scientists propose a Plan B: Enceladus

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-pulls-the-plug-on-europa-lander-but-scientist
s-propose-a-plan-b-2000611741

How the U.S. became highly reliant on Elon Musk for access to space

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/07/nx-s1-5425266/spacex-musk-trump-starlin
k-starship

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 4:02 AM

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White House Asked Joint Chiefs Chairman for Candidates to Lead NASA, Worrying Experts

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/06/white-house-asked-joint
-chiefs-chairman-candidates-lead-nasa-worrying-experts.html

Monster black hole M87 is spinning at 80% of the cosmic speed limit — and pulling in matter even faster

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-measurements-for-m87s-super
massive-black-hole-spin-and-accretion-rate

Japan crashing

HAKUTO-R M2 approach and sudden loss of signal observed with our 20m dish

https://xcancel.com/amsatdl/status/1930729675732427209

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Thursday, June 19, 2025 7:59 AM

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another Space-X Starship exploding... old dinosaur NASA is winning, Artemis SLS

dodge all this burning space debris stuff

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Saturday, June 21, 2025 5:09 AM

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James Webb Space Telescope discovers planets forming in space's most punishing environments

https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/james-webb-space-telescope-
discovers-planets-forming-in-spaces-most-punishing-environments

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Saturday, June 28, 2025 10:18 AM

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France's VORTEX spaceplane to land like a jet, operate like a shuttle

https://newatlas.com/space/frances-vortex-spaceplane-to-land-like-a-je
t-operate-like-a-shuttle/

BOR-4, the Soviet Space Shuttle Test Bed - It Happened in Space #10

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Wednesday, July 2, 2025 8:06 AM

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Artemis

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Saturday, July 5, 2025 10:45 AM

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Trump vs Musk: The Feud Shaking the U.S. Space Industry

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Sunday, July 6, 2025 5:37 AM

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Reconciliation Bill Passes Congress with Billions for U.S. Space Force

https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/reconciliation-bill-passes-congress
-with-billions-for-u-s-space-force/

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Tuesday, July 8, 2025 5:52 AM

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Longshot is Gunning For Kinetic Space Launch
https://payloadspace.com/longshot-is-gunning-for-kinetic-space-launch/

Scott Manley

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Tuesday, July 8, 2025 6:43 PM

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NASA is ending interstellar exploration
https://nasawatch.com/exploration/nasa-is-ending-interstellar-explorat
ion/

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Thursday, July 17, 2025 7:01 PM

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The Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-most-massive-black-hole-mer
ger-ever

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Friday, July 25, 2025 8:50 AM

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'NASA is under attack.' Space agency employees and lawmakers protest mass layoffs, science cuts amid budget turmoil
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-is-under-attack-space-age
ncy-employees-and-lawmakers-protest-mass-layoffs-science-cuts-amid-budget-turmoil

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Monday, August 4, 2025 9:03 AM

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The James Webb Telescope may have found primordial black holes
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-james-webb-telescope-ma
y-have-found-primordial-black-holes/

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Friday, August 8, 2025 3:47 PM

THG

36-mile-long cigar-shaped starship could take humans on first interstellar trip

A bold new step for humanity could be a journey not to the Moon or Mars, but to an entirely new star system.

This is the Chrysalis Project, an award-winning design for a hypothetical starship that could carry up to 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri—our closest stellar neighbor.

The ultimate goal would be to reach and settle on the potentially habitable exoplanet Proxima Centauri b.

However, the one-way trip would reportedly take around 400 years due to the immense distance.

Because of the incredible duration, many of the passengers would live their entire lives aboard the spacecraft without ever knowing what life on our planet is like.

The sci-fi-like project took home the top prize in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a contest for designing hypothetical multigenerational ships for venturing into deep space.

“The generational spaceship Chrysalis is named after the intriguing possibility of having a spaceship capable of keeping its inhabitants safe and united, generation after generation, until they arrive in the new solar system,” the mission pitch noted.

Multi-generational ship with all facilities
The proposed “cigar-shaped,” multi-generational ship would roughly measure around 36 miles (58 km). Constant rotation would create artificial gravity, allowing life to thrive inside it.

Before the journey, the first generations of passengers would live in an isolated environment in Antarctica for 70 to 80 years to prepare for life on the ship.

As per the pitch deck, the Chrysalis spacecraft is planned to be built at the L1 Lagrangian point of the Earth-Moon system. This location is ideal because it may allow the project to access the Moon and Earth resources.

“L1 is also ideal as a launch point for a massive spacecraft several kilometres in length, to avoid the stresses caused by differential gravitational effects on the structure when placed in orbit too close to the Earth or Moon,” it explained.

Designed like a Russian nesting doll, the giant spacecraft would be a complete ecosystem with different layers.

At its core, it’s a series of self-contained worlds, each with a specific purpose.

It would have spaces for farms, gardens, homes, warehouses, and other shared facilities, each powered by nuclear fusion reactors.

In the innermost core, shuttles wait, ready to deliver passengers to their final destination: Proxima Centauri b.

The next layer will be about survival. Here, food production is a science, with controlled environments that could nurture everything from crops to livestock. The designers even included different biomes, like tropical and boreal forests, for potential preservation of biodiversity.

Beyond that, it would also host the heart of the community: parks, schools, hospitals, and libraries.

The outer shells house the homes, industries, and warehouses.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/36-mile-long-cigar-shaped-st
arship-could-take-humans-on-first-interstellar-trip/ar-AA1Ka5fZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=6848731953fb4ccf9b7254fda98269e9&ei=102

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