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Spaceship 2 Fires Engine

Sweet – Virgin’s passenger spaceship completes first rocket test flight:

The spaceship and its carrier aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo, took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port at 7 a.m. PDT (10.00 a.m. EDT), heading to an altitude of about 46,000 feet, where SpaceShipTwo was released.

Two pilots then ignited the ship’s rocket engine and climbed […]

April 29th, 2013 | Tags: , , | Category: Science & Engineering, Space Commerce, Space Technology | Comments are closed

Another Rocket in the Stable

The Antares maiden launch appears to have gone well: Private company succeeds in test launch of rocket that will carry cargo ship

About 10 minutes after the launch from Wallops Island on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles declared the test a success after observing a practice payload reach orbit and safely separate […]

April 21st, 2013 | Tags: , , | Category: Economics, Space Commerce, Space Technology | Comments are closed

Advanced Robotics

So, who thinks Carl and I were too sporty with the diggers and other robots in In the Shadow of Ares?

The humanoid robots are a little creepy in an uncanny valley way, but quite impressive for what they can do if even part of it is autonomous (it looks to me like the […]

April 1st, 2013 | Tags: , , , | Category: Entertainment, In the Shadow of Ares, Science & Engineering, Science Fiction, Useful Technology | Comments are closed