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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · last year

#SpaceLogistics & #SpaceMaintenance will most likely be dominated by #SpaceRobot 🤖 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-professional-service-robots-installed-by-area | https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/domain-notable-artificial-intelligence-systems

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 10 months ago

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#Moon 🌙 scouts will all be #robotic, designed to build a foundation for #astronauts 👨‍🚀 to follow about two years later. There is need for transporting 🚀 large masses of equipment and materials from #Earth. An #IntuitiveMachines lander is set to reach the Moon later this year. #NASA’s #JPL will release a “swarm” of robot-explorers equipped with stereo cameras 📹 and charged with creating photorealistic #3D maps 🗺️ of the #lunar terrain https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinholdenplatt/2024/04/27/robot-explorers-futuristic-spacex-starships-set-to-transform-the-moon/

#SpaceRobot #SpaceLogistics #Starship

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · last year

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• 📆 2018, #ISS became the first facility to produce #BECs ⚛️ in #space 🌌
• In #space, so-called cool flames 🔥 can burn for minutes
• #ISS water 💦 purification system deployed across #India 🇮🇳, #Mexico 🇲🇽, #Pakistan🇵🇰
• #StemCells regenerative medicine ⚕️ could repair/replace failing organs and cells
• Higher quality protein crystals
• #Microbes 🦠 can extract metals from #regolith
• Tissue/organ-on-a-chip effects faster in #microgravity
• #3Dprinting
• Organ growth
https://interestingengineering.com/lists/13-science-breakthroughs-experiments-iss

#NASA

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 8 months ago

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📆 2025 Lunar Gateway #NASA #ESA #CSA #JAXA
📆 2025 Haven-1 #VastSpace
📆 2026 Axiom Station #AxiomSpace
📆 2026 StarMax #Gravitics
📆 2026 LIFE Pathfinder #SierraSpace
📆 2027 Russian Orbital Service Station #Roscosmos
📆 2028 Starlab #NanoRacks #VoyagerSpace #Airbus #MDASpace #Mitsubishi
📆 second half 2020s Orbital Reef #BlueOrigin #SierraSpace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_stations#Planned_and_proposed

#SpaceStation #launch

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 6 months ago

#ESA 📆 18/06/2024 #SolarOrbiter shows the Sun ☀️ raging on https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Can_t_stop_won_t_stop_Solar_Orbiter_shows_the_Sun_raging_on

#SpaceWeather #SolarStorm

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 6 months ago

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#NASA #Orion #radiation protection plan 🗒️ "astronauts will position themselves in the central part of the crew module and #create a #shelter using the stowage bags 🛍️ on board. The crew would in some cases need to stay inside for as long as 24 hours ⌛ https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/orion/scientists-and-engineers-evaluate-orion-radiation-protection-plan/

#HumanSpaceflightHealth #RadiationProtection #Artemis #LunarGateway

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 6 months ago

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"How #NASA will protect #astronauts from #SpaceRadiation". Spoiler alert : #luggage 🧳 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpNa4u997xA

#HumanSpaceflightHealth #RadiationProtection #Artemis #LunarGateway

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 12 months ago

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One of the biggest impediments to reform was @senbillnelson , the former #US senator from #Florida who represented #KennedySpaceCenter and now runs #NASA https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/21/get-your-boy-elon-in-line-nasa-tell-all-recounts-turmoil-over-private-space-race-00041085

(The same guy who now wonders whether #China 🇨🇳 might be faster on the #Moon 🤦‍♂️)

#SpacePolitics #SpaceRace

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 11 months ago

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@senbillnelson 's outsized influence on #NASA over four decades is undisputed, but some of us in the #SpaceCommunity are concerned this may not be a feature 👎. Senator #Nelson’s imprint on the #SpaceProgram has led to grand pronouncements based on #unrealistic industry estimates, multibillion-dollar 💰 #cost overruns, years of schedule #delays and unmet expectations 😠 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bill-nelson-isnt-the-best-choice-for-nasa-administrator/

#SpacePolitics #PorkBarrel

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 6 months ago

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"The future of Boeing’s crewed spaceflight program is muddy after #Starliner’s return" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - #Boeing no-showed post-landing news conference. Now questions swirl if they'll continue in #NASA Commercial Crew program. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/the-future-of-boeings-crewed-spaceflight-program-is-muddy-after-starliners-return/ #StarlinerCFT

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 6 months ago

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"Navy captains don’t like abandoning ship—but with #Starliner, the ship left them" by @arstechnica / @StephenClark1 - Wilmore & Williams became #NASA astronauts as US Navy test pilots. They test-flew #Starliner, sent it down empty as ordered. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/navy-captains-dont-like-abandoning-ship-but-with-starliner-the-ship-left-them/ #StarlinerCFT

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 6 months ago

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"Stuck-in-space astronauts reflect on being left behind and adjusting to life in orbit" by AP / Marcia Dunn - #NASA test pilot astronauts Wilmore & Williams adjusted to longer stay in space, unsettled at #Boeing #Starliner leaving without them https://apnews.com/article/stuck-astronauts-boeing-starliner-nasa-1933b64f91ba06713e57446e2dbee1c4 #StarlinerCFT

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️ @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 5 months ago

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"#NASA Nearly Bet It All on Boeing’s Troubled #Starliner—Here’s Why That Changed" by @Gizmodo / @RabiePassant - #CommercialCrew contract was almost awarded solely to #Boeing, if not for #SpaceX's willingness to test crew escape system in flight https://gizmodo.com/nasa-nearly-bet-it-all-on-boeings-troubled-starliner-heres-why-that-changed-2000504311 #StarlinerCFT

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 12 months ago

#LaunchCost per kg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_launch_market_competition#2010-2020s:_Competition_and_pricing_pressure

#SpaceShuttle #SLS #Electron #Ariane #LongMarch #Proton #Falcon9 #FalconHeavy #Starship

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 6 months ago

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Adjusted for inflation to 2020 dollars, #NASA spent approximately $49 billion 💰 to develop and launch the first #SpaceShuttle https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/sts-program-development-cost

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 10 months ago

Launch costs have fallen 95% 📉 (with another massive reduction expected in the coming years) thanks to reuse, improved engineering, and increased volumes.
“In economics, we assume that resources are limited; land is limited; natural resources are limited. With #space 🌌, it allows us to change that.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/03/were-in-a-new-era-the-21st-century-space-race-takes-off

#LaunchCost #SpaceMining

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 7 months ago

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📊 #ESA 🇪🇺 and its member states forked over $4.4B 💰💰💰💰 to develop #Ariane6. Customer launches are unlikely to pay back development costs any time soon.

#SpaceX has invested over $5B 💰💰💰💰💰 in #Starship 🚀 R&D to date. Starship has proven its expendable capability, and the company is focusing on achieving full #reusability ♻️.

#NASA spent a dizzying $24B 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 developing #SLS
https://payloadspace.com/rocket-development-costs-by-vehicle-payload-research

#DevelopmentCost #LaunchCost

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 10 months ago

#LaunchCost #SpaceMining

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 10 months ago

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#NASA has contracts with four companies to gather a small amount of material from the lunar 🌙 surface—as a proof of concept to show that extraction is possible.
NASA doesn’t have a similar demonstration for mining ⚒️ #asteroids. But the space rock seekers nevertheless continue their quest for treasure. They believe Earth needs, and will pay handily for, what space 🌌 has to offer. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/in-the-race-for-space-metals-companies-hope-to-cash-in/

#AsteroidMining #MoonMining #SpaceMining

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 10 months ago

#LaunchCost #SpaceMining

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 10 months ago

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📊 The #US 🇺🇸 spent $257 billion 💰💰💰 when adjusted for inflation to 2020 dollars on Project #Apollo between 📆 1960 and 📆 1973. The total amount spent on #NASA during this period was $482 billion 💰💰💰💰💰 adjusted https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-apollo

#SaturnV #LaunchCost

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 12 months ago

📆 2019 A senior #NASA official had opened the door to NASA flying its first crewed 👩‍🚀 missions to the #Moon 🌙 on a #FalconHeavy rocket 🚀 built by #SpaceX https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/nasa-chief-says-a-falcon-heavy-rocket-could-fly-humans-to-the-moon/

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 12 months ago

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When Mr Bridenstine suggested in 2019 that America could return to the Moon 🌙 using #SpaceX’s #FalconHeavy, he provoked a row with Richard #Shelby, a senator from #Alabama who was then chairman of the Senate appropriations committee. Welcoming the #SLS in 2011, Mr Shelby said that #NASA’s exploration of space, “has always been and always will be through Marshall Space Flight Centre [in #Alabama].” https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/24/nasas-space-launch-system-is-yesterdays-rocket

#SpacePolitics #PorkBarrel

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 12 months ago

"Political and #aerospace interests were more than reluctant to embrace any changes which they viewed as a threat to their own hegemony."
The mainstream media doesn’t cover #SpaceExploration and #SpaceScience with the same questioning 🔍 rigor that they reserve for #politics. People writing about space exploration are mostly cheerleaders 🥳 for the cause, rather than independent observers keeping a watchful eye on how our national monies 💰 are spent. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2022/06/23/new-book-paints-bleak-picture-of-nasas-human-spaceflight-program/

#NASA #SLS #Artemis

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 12 months ago

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 12 months ago

@lori_garver “It got funded as a rocket to nowhere, and we at #NASA had to figure out something to do with it”.
The #rocket is #unsustainable by design, relying on an old and potentially quite expensive 💰 way to get to #space 🌌. Much of #SLS is a holdover from the #SpaceShuttle. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1065143/nasa-artemis-return-to-moon

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 12 months ago

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#NASA #SLS #Artemis

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 12 months ago

#SpaceX’s #FalconHeavy costs well north of $100 million 💵 per launch. The #SLS about $4 billion 💰💰💰💰 per launch https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/by-the-numbers-the-space-launch-system-nasas-next-moon-rocket/

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 12 months ago

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