May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
..., including NASA’s new Moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), and SpaceX’s monster rocket Starship. If successful, Starship will be the most powerful rocket ever built and will change the economics of space, since it can...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
..., the company is also pushing hard with the completion of Starship; Musk’s massive stainless steel spaceship, the entrepreneur hopes will ... around March 2022. If all goes according to plan, Starship will make it to orbit for a brief period of time...
19 April 2024
A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars
...). The book’s eight chapters introduce interstellar travel, put it into historical context and discuss the design of starships. This design includes, of course, the method of propulsion, so he covers all the usual suspects - rockets, light and...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... as Icarus (via the British Interplanetary Society and the Tau Zero Foundation) and the 100 Year Starship project (via DARPA and NASA). In the century that has passed since Tsiolkovsky’s time, thousands of works...
March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
... plot), the process of safely relocating an entire planet’s population is stated to be as long as three years. And although the starship Voyager has the necessary technology to ‘fix’ the planet’s nuclear apocalypse, the intense yearning of some among...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... in hot, very saline or extremely acidic conditions? It was because extremophiles had long surpassed what the crew of Starship Enterprise regularly boasts about in Star Trek - that they go where no one has gone before. A famous astrobiologist...
