Category: Short Articles
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Happy Birthday, Elon!
Today, Elon Musk is turning 51 years old! the billionaire entrepreneur who founded the world’s most successful space company has had quite a year! Let’s review some of SpaceX’s major achievements since Elon turned 50. Surpassed 100 successful Falcon 9 landings The first all-civilian orbital mission, Inspiration4 The first all-civilian mission to the ISS, Axiom…
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Space Architecture?
Since the dawn of the space age, building habitats in space has been a costly and unwieldy endeavor. The ISS has cost well over $150 billion to date, and although we have limited data from Tiangong Mir, they are unlikely to be or had been much better. All of the recent space startups have primarily…
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New Name for Gateway?
An integral piece of NASA’s plans for the Artemis program is the Lunar Gateway, a space station in lunar orbit. It should serve as a waystation for missions between the two worlds. At the gateway, the Orion crew capsule will meet with the Starship lander and the crew will transfer. Michael Collins is the forgotten…
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THE EUROPA! MOMENT
After years of research and speculating about life elsewhere in solar system, we may have reached one more step closer to it. It was long hypothesized that Jupiter’s moon, Europa may harbor life or at least life-sustaining conditions. A research by Stanford University may reveal more clues. In this article, we take a look at…
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NASA’s New Space Shuttle, A Far Leap Forward
On 30th March 2022, NASA’s former administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that NASA will make a newer generation Orbiter Vehicle, “Much far better than we’ve had in the 2000’s”, he said. This is a huge plan after NASA’s ambition to get back to the Moon through the SLS programme. The funding for this spacecraft’s R&D’s is…
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WHY HAVEN’T WE FOUND THE ALIENS YET: AN ANALYSIS OF THE THEORIES
Are we alone in this vast expanse of the universe? Every month or two, there are reports of ‘sightings’ of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Object), strange creatures and footprints, conspiracy theorists debating whether the arrival of aliens is being hidden by the Government, reputed scientists claiming that aliens are already present on earth. Whether Extraterrestrial life…
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Vulcan Centaur Faces Further Delays
ULA has been working on their next-generation rocket Vulcan Centaur for nearly 8 years but the program still has much more work to do which makes many questions its mid-2022 targeted launch date United Launch Alliance has been well known for its mission reliability and accuracy, often able to extend the lives of satellites because…
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90% of This Rocket is 3D Printed!
What is Terran 1? Terran 1 is an expendable two-stage launch vehicle powered by liquid natural gas (LNG) and liquid oxygen (LOX) which is designed, builded, and operated by Relativity Space. The Terran 1 vehicle is 35m (115ft) high, 2.3 m (7.5 ft) in diameter. All structures and major engine components are printed using printable…
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Celebrating 20 years of SpaceX
On Monday, 14th of March, we celebrate 20 amazing and eventful years of SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer founded by Elon Musk, centred in California. SpaceX is a key private player in the space sector and has amazed the space community with its ambitious projects. Most notably, SpaceX manufactures the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and…
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Axiom Space: An Optimistic Solution to the Future of Space?
What is Axiom? Axiom Space is an American private company working on space infrastructure headquartered in Houston, Texas. Axiom is currently working with NASA alongside other agencies to send multiple modules into space, and attach them to the ISS. The company also plans to launch and operate the world’s first commercial space station in 2024 How…
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6 WOMEN WHO MADE THEIR MARK IN ASTROPHYSICS
February 11 marks the International Day of Women in STEM. It is a day for celebrating the role women and girls play in science. It is also a day to raise awareness about giving women opportunities to pursue careers in STEM fields and to awaken interest in young girls for STEM. In this blog post,…
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India is about to launch PSLV C52!
India Space Research Organization or ISRO will launch their workhorse rocket, PSLV, with an amazing payload. Here’s all the info we’ll get today in this read- The Payload The Rocket The Launch THE PAYLOAD This is a rideshare mission, which means that multiple customers will pay some sum of money depending on the weight and…
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WHAT CHANGED OUR SISTER PLANET, VENUS?
Just a little over 55 million kilometers away from us, Venus can not be more different from Earth. Everything from its atmosphere to rotation is different. Despite being named after the goddess of beauty; Venus is definitely not the choice residence for us. But it was not always the case, at least NASA says so.…
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Why do spacecraft have a BLUNT body?
Most or maybe all spacecraft that have to go through re-entry have a blunt body or do not have sharp edges on the windward side or the re-entry side of the spacecraft not because this looks cool but because they have to go through some extreme circumstances. When a spacecraft is going through supersonic speeds…
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19 YEARS OF SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA DISASTER
In On 2003, January 16, the space shuttle Columbia lifted off for its 28th mission. This mission aimed to conduct various experiments including a micro-gravity environment experiment.