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SpaceX had Starship SN8 prepped for a high altitude test launch but conditions were not ideal for the test today. SpaceX will likely try again tomorrow. SOURCE – SpaceX Written by Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist …
SpaceX launched the Cargo Dragon C208 to the International Space Station. CRS-21 launched on SpaceXs Falcon 9 Block 5. It is the first SpaceX launch under the CRS 2 contract. SOURCE- SpaceX, Everyday Astronaut Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com Brian …
U.S. National Science Foundation provided video of the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory. Credit: Courtesy of the Arecibo Observatory. This video was taken from the vantage point of the Arecibo operations building. At the center of the video is the …
OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband satellite communications company,is emerging from U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is restarting production of satellites. A consortium of UK Government (through the UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) and …
A few weeks ago, Nextbigfuture noted the plan to dismantle the Arecibo Telescope after some wires and small sections of the telescope failed. However, the vast majority of the Arecibo telescope has collapsed. The various towers and cables are now …
“First, you get the money, then you get the power, and then you get the women.” Tony Montana Scarface. For Warp drive. First, we get the math, then we get the physics and then we get the warp drive. We …
Last year, Elon Musk tweeted that Starship Version 2.0 will be 18 meters in diameter instead of 9 meters. Nextbigfuture wrote about this conceptual plan last year. The upgraded for the Ultra Heavy Starship 2.0 might be able to launch …
Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX developed and uses LIDAR for Dragon docking with the Space Station. Elon and Tesla do not use LIDAR for for self-driving. Elon commented that if you are going to do active photon generation then use …
Seven months ago, Nextbigfuture looked at the post pandemic world future as the pandemic was starting. We are now about halfway through the global pandemic. The World Bank’s baseline projection is for a 5.2% global economic contraction. China and several …
For most of the last 57 years, the Arecibo radio telescope was the largest telescope in the world. Two cable breaks over the past few months. The telescope will be dismantled before it collapses. The 900-ton instrument platform is suspended …