While 2020 was a challenging year for the space industry (and everyone else) amid the coronavirus pandemic, a bunch of exciting missions that will launch or arrive at their destination in 2021 continued to move forward.
From Mars to asteroids, robots, humans and much more, we'll see space exploration continue to expand across the solar system. We'll also see some new rockets take flight from companies like Firefly Aerospace and Relativity Space.
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China's ambitious Tianwen-1 mission, the first Mars mission for the country, will see an orbiter, lander and rover all explore the Red Planet. The United Arab Emirates also sent its first mission, the Hope orbiter , to Mars to inspire the "next generation."
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How Far Could A Spaceship Go If We Never Ran Out Of Thrust?
A multistage rocket that lost and jettisoned mass as it moved faster and faster would be required to ... [+] reach speeds approaching the speed of light, like the Super Haas rocket shown here. You must either posses a super-efficient type of fuel or gather more fuel along your journey to achieve relativistic speeds. In theory, a ship with constant acceleration could take us farther into the Universe than anything else we've hitherto envisioned.
Right now, there are only three things limiting how far our spacecrafts can take us in the Universe: the resources we devote to it, the constraints of our existing technology, and the laws of physics. If we were willing to devote more resources to it as a society, we have the technological know-how right now to take human beings to any of the known planets or moons within the Solar System, but not to any objects in the Oort cloud or beyond.
Editorial: Space exploration is surging, as are Earthly rivalries - SFChronicle.com
For many people, space travel is better contemplated than attempted. It’s costly, dangerous and nonessential. There are more problems to solve down here than up there. Dream about the heavens by all means, but please skip the risky rocket trip into the unknown.
That view, it’s safe to say, is going nowhere. More than any time since the Cold War space race in the 1960s, this planet is gripped by a wide-open contest to study and sample this solar system and beyond. Space exploration is more popular than ever.
Best Space Station Science Pictures of 2020 | NASA
Not to change the topic here:
Elon Musk reveals plan to catch SpaceX rockets on launchpad so they can set off again in an hour
SpaceX is planning to be able to catch rockets on their launchpads so they can take off again within an hour, Elon Musk has said.
The proposal would mean the Super Heavy rockets, which are currently in development, would fall back down to Earth and be caught by the launch tower arm that holds the rockets up before they take off.
Mr Musk revealed the plan as he reiterated his idea that the ultimate mission of SpaceX is to build around "1,000 Starships to create a self-sustaining city on Mars".
The key to cryogenic sleep for deep space missions could be hibernating primates like this lemur
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(The Conversation) Science fiction is shifting into reality. With humanity's plans to return to the moon this decade and further ambitions to travel to Mars in the next, we need to figure out how to keep astronauts healthy for these years-long missions. One solution long championed by science fiction is suspended animation, or putting humans in a hibernation-like sleep for the duration of travel time.
Travel Space Holds Upside Potential for 2021: 3 Stocks in Focus
According to a survey conducted by World Travel & Tourism Council (“WTTC”), 99 percent travelers in the United States and Canada have shown interest in travelling again.
Another survey conducted by Travel Leaders Group with WTTC shows that 70% of the respondents are planning to take a holiday. Further, 45% of the respondents are already done with their vacation plans.
Apart from this, the emergence of the term “staycation” is also giving rise to hotel bookings.
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Earlier this month, researchers here at Kennedy tested a shoebox-sized robotic rover inside of a 120-ton bin of reg… https://t.co/tfvxiFfZk5 NASAKennedy (from Florida, USA) Wed Dec 30 15:26:17 +0000 2020
In 1988, the Soviet Union's first space shuttle - the Buran - blasted off from present-day Kazakhstan. It never wen… https://t.co/YTu68kNLxi WIRED (from San Francisco/New York) Wed Dec 30 08:02:05 +0000 2020
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