Los Angeles, CA, June 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- US Nuclear is excited to announce that MIFTI-MIFTEC President and Chief Scientist, Dr. Hafiz Rahman, was invited by NASA to give a presentation on his fusion energy technology at the Tennessee Valley Advanced Interstellar Propulsion Workshop (TVIW) in Wichita, Kansas. The workshop was requested by Congress with support from TVIW to explore the top technologies that can be used for deep space travel.
Dr. Rahman's 36-page presentation titled "Staged Z-Pinch, A Target for Fusion and Possible Source for Interstellar Propulsion" discusses MIFTI's latest developments. MIFTI's fusion generators could become the standard propulsion system for space travel, and also have the potential to provide unlimited, low-cost, clean energy for the earth, moon bases, and planetary colonization.
While you're here, how about this:
SpaceX pursues ocean spaceports for hypersonic Earth-to-Earth travel
SpaceX's plans for deep-space travel get a lot of the headlines, but amid all the reusable rocketry and plans for Mars colonization, the company harbors ambitions that are a little closer to the home.
SpaceX is building floating, superheavy-class spaceports for Mars, moon & hypersonic travel around Earth https://t.co/zLJjz43hKw
The CEO responded on Twitter to a job listing for a position as an "Offshore operations engineer" in Brownsville, Texas. The role would require the candidate to "work as part of a team of engineers and technicians to design and build an operational offshore rocket launch facility."
Pie in the sky - The Week
On May 30, human space travel entered a new era when a private company, for the first time, launched two astronauts into orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket and the Crew Dragon capsule that carried them were built and operated by SpaceX, a company founded by the billionaire Elon Musk. The launch, the first on US soil since 2011, was not only a reminder of America's supremacy in technology, but also a prelude to how things might work in the sector in the future.
Space missions are expensive, and they are mostly done using taxpayers' money. The participation of private players not only takes some burden off the public exchequer, but also gives an opportunity for entrepreneurs. This is exactly why India wants increased private participation in the space ecosystem.
New company Space Perspective wants to take you to the stratosphere via high-altitude balloon -
The original founders of World View Enterprises — a company aimed at using giant balloons to send payloads into the stratosphere — are launching a new venture together, one that will use those same massive balloons to send people leisurely above the Earth. Named Space Perspective , the now distinct company is focused on floating paying customers up to the edge of "space," where they can get a rare view of the curvature of the Earth.
Such a relaxed space travel experience has long been the aim of Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, the co-CEOs of Space Perspective who are announcing the launch of the company today. They originally started World View with tourist flights as the primary end game, but they're now making a separate enterprise to focus on the goal full-time.
Not to change the topic here:
SPCE Stock: Virgin Atlantic May Become a Solid Bet on Space Travel | InvestorPlace
The last time I weighed in on Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE ), I said it could revisit early 2020 highs thanks to space travel demand. There was even hopes the company could shake up the travel industry with transportation at hypersonic speed. That was on May 14, as SPCE stock traded at $15.88.
So far, unfortunately, the stock has been a dud. All thanks in part to the excessive volatility of the market, fears of a second round of the novel coronavirus and tension over the upcoming elections. While I’d love to tell you to back up the truck on SPCE stock, I can’t right now.
NASA's next Mars rover carries tribute to healthcare workers fighting coronavirus | Space
NASA's next Mars rover will bear to the Red Planet a tribute to brave healthcare workers fighting a pandemic here on Earth.
"We wanted to demonstrate our appreciation for those who have put their personal well-being on the line for the good of others," Perseverance deputy project manager Matt Wallace, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement . "It is our hope that when future generations travel to Mars and happen upon our rover, they will be reminded that back on Earth in the year 2020 there were such people."
'Historic' NASA-SpaceX Rocket Launch Will Begin New Era In Human Spaceflight This Week
NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission will return U.S human spaceflight to the International Space Station ... [+] from U.S. soil with astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley on an American rocket and spacecraft for the first time since 2011.
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That might seem like a silly question, but in the future this year—and, specifically, this week—may go down in history not only as a period of pandemic, but the defining moment when a new era of private space travel finally began.
What′s the science on the Emirates Mars Mission?
The UAE is on a 100-year mission to build a city on Mars. A major first step is its probe called Hope ("Al-Amal"), which launches in July. It will measure the Red Planet's atmosphere in ways no other probe has before.
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Every 18 to 24 months, Earth and Mars align in such a way as to make deep-space travel that little bit easier, or at least a bit faster. That reduces a trip or "trajectory" to the Red Planet from about nine months down to seven.
Happening on Twitter
NASA says SpaceX can reuse Crew Dragon capsules and rockets on astronaut missions: report https://t.co/lmhr8e8Y70 https://t.co/6QDuPR905n SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Thu Jun 18 12:14:32 +0000 2020
New Horizons triumphs again !! This is a media report of what was revealed today by the NASA 'New Horizons' team -… https://t.co/i5kdTErp8b DrBrianMay Sat Jun 13 01:27:48 +0000 2020
50 years ago, the Apollo 13 Review Board released its report on the accident that occurred en route to the Moon. Th… https://t.co/t5IpJxw1dN NASA_Johnson (from Houston, TX) Mon Jun 15 21:22:14 +0000 2020
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