As space travel—and eventually space tourism—becomes commonplace, liability of this public-private partnership to third parties will merit substantial exploration and consideration, not just by scholars, but by those in the insurance industry, Segal McCambridge attorneys say.
While the world recently marveled at Elon Musk sending two astronauts into orbit as part of SpaceX's public-private partnership with NASA, lawyers wondered what they always wonder about: liability.
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A unique approach to space flight with SpaceX, Virgin Orbit
In what's becoming a crowded race , private space companies are looking to the skies — armed with innovative approaches to spaceflight.
In a leap toward affordable flights, SpaceX's ridesharing program now lets satellite operators catch Uber-like rides on a Falcon 9 rocket. And while most space rockets take off from a stationary launch pad, Virgin Orbit prefers to attach its rockets to airplanes and send the airplane up first.
Whether it's by working to reduce the costs associated with spaceflight or offering creative initiatives designed to make it easier for smaller satellite operators to reach orbit, SpaceX, Virgin Orbit, and emerging private companies make hitching a ride into space easier than ever before.
Low Cost, Affordable Perovskite Solar Cells Pass Rocket Test
The Intertubes have been lighting up like fire ever since word dropped that the results are in for the first ever space flight of perovskite solar cells. Despite their razor-thin profile and delicate solution-based construction, the new solar cells returned to Earth intact while sending back all the juicy details about their performance in the up-above. Spoiler alert: on a gram-per-gram basis, perovskite comes out miles ahead of the competition.
Low cost, affordable perovskite solar cells have passed the rocket test and are ready to revolutionize the global solar industry, now-ish.
New kind of solar cells for space - Innovation Origins
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) were the first to carry out a successful flight with a satellite that draws its current from solar cells that are not based on silicon but on perovskite and so-called polymer or organic solar cells .
According to TUM and DLR, the solar cells have several advantage. They are lighter, generate more power, and are more flexible. In addition to space travel, they will also have many other applications on earth in the future.
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Is space travel the ultimate status symbol for tech-billionaires? | Tatler
To, 'boldly go where no man has gone before,' could well be the mantra of many a Silicon Valley billionaire, whose fortunes are built on pushing forward with innovative new ideas. But once you've got the billion-dollar-valued company, the superyacht, the endless properties, the private jet, the collection of sports cars and the private island, what's next? Space tourism might be the answer.
50 years after the first Space Race, which saw the USA pit itself against Russia during the height of the Cold War, a second is underway. This time though it's the world's richest men competing - with several vying to be the one to get the first commercial space trip launched.
Space Tourism Is Getting Interesting (...And Weird)
For less than a century, humans have been sending objects, both organic or inorganic, into space. We have not yet managed to travel beyond our galaxy, but our descendants will possibly find a way to travel to distant galaxies in the future.
Here are nine innovative, and sometimes strange ways, some companies are preparing now for the future of space exploration.
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In 1895, when Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky visited Paris, he was inspired by the sight of the newly constructed Eiffel Tower and imagined constructing a space elevator. He based his concept on designing a compression structure built to run along a free-standing tower from the earth to the height of the geostationary orbit.
Oh Great: Space Travel Makes Bacteria Even Deadlier
The long-term effects that microgravity — the almost-total weightlessness experienced during near-Earth space travel — have on the human body are still largely unknown.
On top of that, bacteria brought to space were able to quickly mutate and adapt to their surroundings, nixing hope that dangerous pathogens might die off in the extreme conditions of space travel. The cells become smaller, Minhas writes, but also more numerous.
Questions remain about how bacteria might fare in microgravity versus true zero-gravity conditions. Scientists haven't sorted out whether the changes are due to a specific, quantifiable change in gravitational pull or weightlessness in general. But they have figured out what changes are happening.
How Future Space Travel Could Create Language Communication Problems
Scientists and engineers are preparing for possible travel into interstellar space, the area in between stars, in the distant future.
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Only two spacecraft from Earth have reached the mysterious area known as interstellar space . Scientists identify interstellar space as the area outside the area of particles and magnetic fields created by the sun.
Experts believe it will likely take many years before the technology and equipment are developed to send humans to this unexplored area of space. But if it does happen, massive spaceships could carry humans on long trips to distant stars.
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