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[Interview] Can Sweating Heat Shields Solve Re-Entry Problems for Reusable Rockets?
Heat shields are one of the trickiest problems left to solve before we can have truly reusable spacecraft. So far we've seen different solutions, lik…
1 year, 4 months ago
[Q&A] Extending JWST's Life, Views from Dragonfly, Roadblock to Mars
Can we refuel James Webb at L2 when it runs out of propellant? What will the Dragonfly octocopter see on the surface of Titan? Will discovering life …
1 year, 4 months ago
[Interview] 3 Key Technologies to Start Terraforming Mars in Our Lifetime
Terraforming Mars is usually considered in the realm of science fiction. But actually we have technology to start doing it in our lifetime and achiev…
1 year, 4 months ago
[Space Bites] Dangers of A Super Solar Storm // Jupiter Twice The Size // Crazy Moon Landing System
Jupiter could have been twice as big in the past, the challenges of landing on the Moon, the record for the farthest galaxy has been broken. And in o…
1 year, 4 months ago
[Q&A] My Favourite Space Image, Shape of Oort Cloud, The Concept of Aliens
When did humans first think of aliens? Why is Oort cloud a sphere when the Solar System is a disk? Which space image is my favourite? And in our Q&A+…
1 year, 4 months ago
[Q&A] Lasers VS Space Junk, Missions Overdelivering, Asteroids Already Mined
Which space mission would I save from cancellation if I could? Is fighting space junk with lasers a good idea or not? What if we find asteroids that …
1 year, 4 months ago
[Interview] How Liquid Water Can Hide on Mars
So far we couldn't find liquid water on Mars. But there are still places where it can hide from us. One of them is pockets under the ice. How can it …
1 year, 4 months ago
[Space Bites] Eyes for Plato // Water Ice in Another Star System // Venus Tectonics
ESA’s PLATO mission gets its eyes installed, Webb finds water ice in another star system, could it be dark matter and not dark energy that’s evolving…
1 year, 4 months ago
[Interview] How Quantum Coronagraphs Will Help Us See Earth-Like Planets Around Sun-Like Stars
Our current tech doesn't allow us to block light from Sun-like stars to see Earth-like planets. The brightness difference is just too high. One of th…
1 year, 4 months ago
[Q&A] Cubesats VS Big Missions, EM Protection from Space Radiation, Discovering Exomoons
Why risk sending big space missions instead of swarms of cubesats? Can NASA protect future Mars astronauts from radiation with EM-rockets? How close …
1 year, 4 months ago