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SpaceX will invest $1 billion towards advanced engine systems
Posted in Business on 5th Oct, 2016
by Alex Muller
Musk is spending tens of millions per year on developing his Mars colonization plans and the hardware for it. This will scale up to $200-300 million per year by 2018 or so.
China is developing plans for a suborbital space plane for tourists
Posted in Hardware on 4th Oct, 2016
by Alex Muller
Unlike the Shuttle or the X037B, the smaller version of China's space plane will carry all its fuel internally, and the concept seems to lack booster rockets.
Liquid water in the rest of the solar system is about 50 times Earth's volume of water
Posted in Science on 2nd Oct, 2016
by Alex Muller
The locations of some subsurface oceans are on Europa, Enceladus, Ganymede, Titan, the asteroid Ceres, Callisto, Dione and Pluto.
SpaceX sets a date to return to orbit following the Falcon 9 launchpad explosion
Posted in Science on 1st Oct, 2016
by Alex Muller
The company appears ready to get back on the orbital horse with plans for its next launch set for as soon as November.
Plumes on Europa Might Confirm Suspicions of Water Beneath Its Icy Crust
Posted in Science on 30th Sep, 2016
by Alex Muller
Several missions are scheduled to investigate these findings.