Category Archives: Aerospace

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Workplace Automation Part 2 – Travel

In part one of our workplace automation series, we covered advances from the factory floor to the drone equipped delivery van- and the logistics in between. Today’s post covers the customer facing side of robotics- devices seen as you go about your day to day

Neptune Sized Planet X Planet 9

Neptune-sized Planet Beyond Pluto?

A New 9th planet may exist: “… Today, two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of Neptune—but as yet unseen—orbits the sun every 15,000 years. During the solar system’s infancy 4.5 billion years ago, they say, the giant planet was knocked out

Sierra Nevada Dreamchaser to ISS

Automated shuttle wins NASA ISS contract

Mini space shuttle will fly cargo to Space Station NASA awarded contracts to three companies for unmanned commercial cargo delivery missions to the space station through 2024: “…Sierra Nevada, the newcomer to the CRS program, will provide two versions of its Dream Chaser lifting body

Rare Element Asteroid Mining Satellite

Space Rock Mining is Big Money.

Resources on Asteroids can be worth billions: “There’s money in space mining!” Usually that sort of bluster translates to money thrown AT space- as in tens of billions for Apollo, Shuttle, Space Station, etc.   Sure we’ve discovered an awful lot of important stuff, and

Blue Origin New Shepard Space Capsule

Reusable Space Launchers Make Orbit Affordable

Landing Booster Rockets Reduces the Cost of Space Travel : In late November Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched and landed its “New Shepard” Spacecraft. The rocket traveled just over 100km (the edge of space) before making a powered landing exactly where intended. The only other

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