October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... via the Atlas V booster costs US$20,000/kg while SpaceX promises a reduction to US$1,700/kg with its partly reusable Falcon Heavy rocket. Of course, the costs of onward flight across interplanetary space will be much higher. Artist’s concept depicts...
February 2020
Investigation of the Coriolis effect in rotating space platforms
... obtain a rotation velocity of Ωr=0.26 rad/s. To launch this vessel at the approximate launch price (US$1600/kg) of Falcon Heavy (US$1600/kg), we require a budget of US$8.70 billion. Taking the maximum payload capacity of 63.2 tonnes we would require...
26 June 2019
LightSail 2 gets ready to make its debut in space
Yesterday, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket successfully launched NASA’s STP-2 mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying with it a whole raft of technology ...
15 January 2020
Rising sea levels pose threat to KSC
... 39A, the historic Apollo 11 and Space Shuttle launch pad that SpaceX now leases for its Falcon Heavy rocket, is one of the most vulnerable, as the base of the pad sits only a few feet above sea...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... near 1g at rotation rates of 1-2 Revolutions Per Minute (RPM). Such a structure could be launched inside a single Falcon Heavy rocket fairing and then be deployed autonomously to a final size of a kilometer or more on orbit without requiring complex...
