Spacecraft Propulsion: Current Trends, Future Needs
Spacecraft propulsion is an essential aspect of space exploration as it enables spacecraft to travel through the vast distances of outer space. Currently, various types...
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Did You Know There are Nuclear Powered Missiles? Nuclear Propulsion is a Double-Edged Sword for Humanity
Nuclear Thermal Rockets: The Future of Space Exploration How They Work Nuclear thermal rockets (NTRs) utilize the heat generated from nuclear fission to propel spacecraft....
A Comprehensive Plan to Save the Humans
When and if the political will ever exists, there is a simple answer: We need, as a species, a perpetually self-correcting effective framework of governance...
Asteroid Mining: Opportunities and Top 25 Obstacles
Opportunities in Asteroid Mining: 1. Abundance of resources: Asteroids contain valuable minerals, metals, and rare earth elements, which are in high demand for various industries...
Could a Quantum Gravimeter Detect a Primordial Black Hole Inside the Earth?
So far we humans can measure many things, but certainly not all or even most things that we will one day be able to measure....
Space Based Microwave Lasers
While the concept of space-based masers has been explored in scientific literature and research, there are currently no operational space-based masers for power transmission or...
A Record 48-Year Human Power Supply: Voyager I (1977 to 2025+)
Voyager 1, launched on September 5, 1977, is still transmitting data, although it recently faced communication challenges. After going silent in November 2023, the spacecraft...
The Derby Asteroid Mining Method
Can we dramatically increase asteroid mining success by crashing asteroids into each other, demolition derby style? The recent discovery of hundreds of hidden asteroid moons...
Mined Asteroid Sections as Space Ship Shields
The concept of utilizing mined sections of asteroids as shielding material for spacecraft is an innovative approach to addressing the critical challenges of radiation exposure...
Space Travel Hurdles
Here is the outline from the meeting of the Human Survival Authority, Department of Space Exploration and Planetary Defense on space travel hurdles such as...