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Space: The Final Frontier. Exploring space developments and theorizing about how humans fit into the universe.
Rocketing Towards the Dreaded Kessler Syndrome
On 15 October 2020, scientists watched in fear as a 16-foot long inoperative Russian navigation satellite and part of a 25-foot long Chinese rocket whizzed passed each other at 33,000 miles an hour, more than 600 miles above the southern Atlantic Ocean. Had they collided, the debris cloud would’ve been large enough to put every other spacecraft and satellite in low Earth orbit at risk.
By The Happy Neuron5 years ago in Futurism
8 Space Satellites you should know about!
In this new era many things happen that’s beyond our expectations and sometimes things are hunted to find a novel way. Space Missions are something that’s bringing novelty to this new generation. Space probes/satellites/telescopes are constructed for various purposes and this is, what is described below. Given below are some of the space satellites that you should know.
By Radioactron5 years ago in Futurism
50 Years Ago, Venera 7 Became the First Spacecraft to Land on Another Planet
On the 15th of December 1970 something momentous happened. The Venera 7 spacecraft landed on the surface of Venus, becoming the first human-made object to land on another planet. The landing only confirmed what everyone already knew: Venus was a forbidding place.
By Peter Burns5 years ago in Futurism
NASA’s New Cost-Cutting Mission Will Save Millions Of Dollars On Space Expeditions
Space missions are expensive, and sending the smallest aircraft to space can cost somewhere between $62 million to $450 million. Being the most potent US government agency for studying the cosmos, NASA spends billions of dollars every year for their expeditions into space.
By freya gilbert5 years ago in Futurism
Asteroid Mining For the Future
What happens when the Earth's most precious resources finally begin to dwindle? When its gems are all but scraped from its surface and sold off? When its rarest elements are strained and used? When the last gallons of water are on the brink of being consumed? Or even more grim of a reality, when the last tree is chopped down and fresh air becomes a scarce commodity? What then?
By Shane Taylor5 years ago in Futurism
Meet the Extreme Exoplanet TOI-561 b. Top Story - January 2021.
About 280 light years from Earth, a world of molten magma orbits one of the oldest stars in the galaxy. This exoplanet, 50 percent larger than the Earth, whips around its star at a breathtaking clip.
By The Cosmic Companion5 years ago in Futurism
Universe
Did you know that The earliest cosmological models of the universe were developed by ancient Greek and Indian philosophers and were geocentric, placing Earth at the center. Over the centuries, more precise astronomical observations led Nicolaus Copernicus to develop the heliocentric model with the Sun at the center of the Solar System. In developing the law of universal gravitation, Isaac Newton built upon Copernicus's work as well as Johannes Kepler's laws of planetary motion and observations by Tycho Brahe.
By Liam S Crawford5 years ago in Futurism
Do Aliens Exist?
Now, exoplanets simply mean that a planet which is located beyond our solar system. Recently, an international team of scientists has collected the first possible radio signal from a planet beyond our solar system and these radio signals were emanating from an exoplanet system, which is about 51 light-years away from our solar system. So this was done using a Low-Frequency Array and it covered radio missions burst from the Tou Bootes Star System. Now, this Low-Frequency Array or LOFAR is a large radio telescope network which is located in the Netherlands.
By Vishnu Aravindhan5 years ago in Futurism
