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January 12, 2021 at 2:15 PM One of the few non-shitty things to happen in the recently-deceased (see you in hell) year 2020 was that the next generation of Mars rover, Perseverance, was launched, and is currently on its way to the Red Planet, where it will land on February 18. If my local CVS feels comfortable putting up Valentine’s Day crap…Read more... Tags: Science, Nasa, Mars, Easter Eggs, Cvs, Red Planet, Perseverance, Spacelopnik139 people like this. Like
November 6, 2020 at 11:10 AM It’s kind of hard to believe that, of all the wheeled rovers and robots that have been sent from Earth to other places — three crewed Apollo-era lunar rovers to the moon, two Soviet Lunokhods, a Chinese lunar rover-bot, and five wheeled American robots to Mars (one of which is en route) — none of them have actually…Read more... Tags: Science, Nasa, Earth, Rover, Mars, Headlights, Spacelopnik145 people like this. Like
October 5, 2020 at 4:00 PM A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is currently docked to the International Space Station (ISS) and among the 8,000 pounds of cargo the craft is bringing to the station is a very exciting bit of new space-equipment: an all-new space-shitter. Yes, there’s a new toilet, officially called the Universal Waste…Read more... Tags: Science, International Space Station, Toilet, Iss, Northrop Grumman, International Space Station ISS, Spacelopnik75 people like this. Like
September 3, 2020 at 5:00 PM If you’re American you might be having a tough time over the past couple of months feeling like you live in a functional society. If so, I invite you to watch this footage of NASA testing its SLS Flight Support Booster rockets at Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Promontory, Utah, yesterday. Read more... Tags: Science, Nasa, Moon, Northrop Grumman, Spacelopnik, Artemis Mission, Promontory Utah44 people like this. Like
August 3, 2020 at 11:20 AM There hasn’t been a splashdown of an American crewed space capsule since the Apollo capsule from the Apollo-Soyuz joint U.S.-Soviet Union space mission in 1975, at least not until yesterday, when astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley returned to Earth from the International Space Station in orbit, splashing down just…Read more... Tags: Spacex, Science, Earth, International Space Station, Dragon, Soviet Union, Spacelopnik, Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley105 people like this. Like
June 9, 2020 at 11:00 AM I’d think that even casual dorks interested in humanity’s actual space programs would be aware of the very first joint mission between two spacefaring countries: the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project of 1975, where an American Apollo spacecraft and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docked in Earth’s orbit, allowing the crews to have…Read more... Tags: Science, America, Earth, Apollo, Soyuz, Spacelopnik135 people like this. Like
May 18, 2020 at 6:00 PM This is such a wonderfully simple idea that I can’t believe it hasn’t been done before. It’s four well-known launch vehicles, launching, but with transparent bodies so you can see the amount of fuel and oxidizer in them, and how rapidly it gets consumed. It’s almost hypnotizing. Read more... Tags: Science, Rockets, Fuel Economy, Spacelopnik92 people like this. Like
March 10, 2020 at 6:30 PM The other day, I was scrolling through Netflix, looking for a distraction from all the pain of my hair and all my terrible car opinions, seeking out some quality space-travel-focused sci-fi, because I love that crap. As I was scrolling, looking at the thumbnails of the various movies and shows and whatever, I realized…Read more... Tags: Science, Netflix, Sci Fi, Spaceships, Spacelopnik70 people like this. Like
January 15, 2020 at 4:25 PM The American space program, I think we’d all agree, has its own very particular set of audiovisual signatures that immediately evoke all kinds of images and feelings. There’s a certain NASA look to the objects of space travel—that gold foil stuff, lightweight aluminum frameworks, white panels with American flags on…Read more... Tags: Science, Nasa, Moon, Apollo, Spacelopnik135 people like this. Like
October 4, 2019 at 2:05 PM I’m very excited about the SpaceX Starship, mostly because it represents the first spacecraft being designed for general-use space travel that goes beyond Earth orbit, and, well, that’s exciting. Currently, SpaceX has built a rough steel full-size prototype called Starship Mark 1, which they plan to launch in a…Read more... Tags: Spacex, Science, Earth, Starship, Spacelopnik, SpaceX Starship, Starship Mark112 people like this. Like
May 16, 2019 at 12:40 PM President Trump’s proposed Space Force has found new support from a fleshy sack of dogfood and charmlessness that wears a suit and calls itself “Ted Cruz.” This talking sack is the Senator from Texas, and has decided that we need to fund the proposed Space Force to protect us from space pirates. Yep. Pirates, in space.Read more... Tags: Texas, Science, Ted Cruz, Trump, Pirates, Spacelopnik, Space Force122 people like this. Like
April 16, 2019 at 1:30 PM If you’re like most people, at some point in your life you’ve lain on your back on the grass at night, and gazed up into the inky, never-ending blackness of the night sky, and marveled at all the stars. While you were losing yourself in vertiginous gazing, I’m sure you were probably thinking “Damn! I sure wish someone…Read more... Tags: Science, Solar Sail, Pepsi, Spacelopnik55 people like this. Like
March 18, 2019 at 12:20 PM Believe it or not, Formula One drivers are real people, too. They have heroes and they can get awkward when faced with those heroes, just like the rest of us. Sometimes, it can be comforting to know you’re not the only person out there who brings up absurd subjects at the wrong time—sort of like Lewis Hamilton asking…Read more... Tags: Science, Nasa, Racing, Formula One, Lewis Hamilton, Spacelopnik120 people like this. Like
March 6, 2019 at 1:00 PM Late last week, military news site Task & Purpose confirmed a disturbing fact: the newly created U.S. Space Force has no intention of fighting aliens. Despite the recent uptick of military UFO sightings, the Pentagon appears uninterested (at least officially) in the possibility of hostile aliens. But if an alien…Read more... Tags: Science, Pentagon, Ufo, Spacelopnik, Space Force, U S Space Force65 people like this. Like
February 27, 2019 at 8:00 PM One of the lesser-known achievements of the Cold War-era Space Race is the Soviet successes in landing probes on the incredibly harsh and unforgiving surface of Venus, which has temperatures that can reach a hellish 870 degrees Fahrenheit (465 degrees Celsius) and atmospheric pressures 90 times that of Earth. Despite…Read more... Tags: Science, Venus, Soviet, Spacelopnik120 people like this. Like
December 6, 2018 at 12:46 PM I’ve attempted to watch rockets launch from Vandenburg Air Force Base a few times when I was in California, and the thing I remember most about it was just how far away the official viewing areas were. The rocket is a tiny spike in the distance, and it’s like that for many valid safety reasons. At the Baikonur…Read more... Tags: Science, California, Soyuz, Spacelopnik, Vandenburg Air Force Base, Caught On Camera56 people like this. Like
July 20, 2018 at 4:32 PM Even though the routine teleportation of humans and objects from one point in space to another is, at this point, entirely fictional, that doesn’t mean that people aren’t hiding things from you. Because, let’s face it, they are. I know most people are too chickenshit to take on Big Teleport, but I’m not, so get ready…Read more... Tags: Science, Torchlopnik, Spacelopnik, Teleportation, Big Teleport65 people like this. Like
June 11, 2018 at 10:20 AM Come on, Elon, try to keep up. I know you’re busy running all those companies and spending some quality Grimes-times, but if you took a minute or two to do a quick Google search, you’d have noticed that I wrote about incorporating small rockets into a car just like you proposed in your tweet. This was back in 2012! I…Read more... Tags: Google, Elon Musk, Science, Tesla, Grimes, Elon, Spacelopnik105 people like this. Like
March 2, 2018 at 3:31 PM Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk launched a car into space in February, acting on something most thought was a joke. But less humorous are potential impacts the car could have on a planet, should it crash into one. Professors at Purdue University said the car could end up being a biological threat—or benefit.Read more... Tags: Spacex, Elon Musk, Science, Tesla, Purdue University, Spacelopnik125 people like this. Like
February 28, 2018 at 11:32 AM Scaled Composites’ Stratolaunch is the largest airplane in existence by wingspan, which is an insane 385 feet. It needs to be this big because this twin-fusalage’d aircraft isn’t really an aircraft at all—it’s an airborne rocket launching pad. This taxi test of the plane gives a good sense of just how huge this thing…Read more... Tags: Science, Scaled Composites, Planelopnik, Spacelopnik140 people like this. Like
February 12, 2018 at 9:10 AM There’s a really, really rich guy named Kris Singh who loves to buy very exclusive, very expensive cars. This is a guy who dropped $4 million on a Lamborghini Veneno before he even saw one, and he’s the only guy who owns a Koenigsegg Agera XS. Also, he’s about to acquire an Aston Martin Valkyrie, which he plans to…Read more... Tags: Science, Spacelopnik, Hypercars, Kris Singh, Lamborghini Veneno, Aston Martin Valkyrie90 people like this. Like
February 7, 2018 at 10:12 AM While there may now be , and the core of the Falcon Heavy rocket that launched it may be a bit worse for the wear, the twin Falcon 9-based boosters that helped make it all happen are safe and sound back on Earth. And not only did they look good, they made two big bangs doing it.Read more... Tags: Spacex, Science, Tesla, Falcon Heavy, Falcon, Spacelopnik93 people like this. Like
December 28, 2017 at 10:32 AM If you read that headline and got a sense of whatever deja vu is in Russian, don’t worry: they’ve been talking about this for years. I suppose the Russians may finally launch an orbital ‘hotel’ soon, but to be honest, I’m pretty skeptical of most Russian ISS segment plans, which were once quite elaborate, but seem to…Read more... Tags: Science, Russia, Iss, Roscosmos, Spacelopnik60 people like this. Like
December 22, 2017 at 9:10 PM If you’re in Los Angeles and you looked up this evening, you can be forgiven for losing your shit. After all, it’s mere days after made alien visitors seem more plausible than ever, and now you’re seeing an indescribably weird light display! Rest assured, it is not aliens, probably,…Read more... Tags: Spacex, Science, Los Angeles, Spacelopnik61 people like this. Like
December 11, 2017 at 3:35 PM It was December 11, 1972, 45n years ago to the day. Astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt had just stepped out of the lunar lander. And thus began one of humanity’s greatest road trips.Read more... Tags: Science, Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt, Spacelopnik, Lunar Rover, Apollo 1754 people like this. Like
December 11, 2017 at 1:18 PM Drew Feustel is a true Jalop if there ever was one. He grew up in the Detroit area, where he worked as an auto mechanic in college. He’s had an enviable list of cars over the years and nearly went into car design himself, but ended up using his mechanical and science background for something more incredible: becoming…Read more... Tags: Space, Science, Nasa, Detroit, Spacelopnik, Wrenching, Drew Feustel, Jalop57 people like this. Like
December 2, 2017 at 11:35 AM The maiden voyage of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket will have some interesting cargo, Elon Musk revealed on Twitter last night. Musk’s own cherry red Tesla Roadster playing “Space Oddity” over its stereo system will be aboard the rocket with its final destination being Mars’ orbit. [Update: Just kidding! He made it all… Tags: Spacex, Elon Musk, Science, Tesla, Falcon Heavy, Tesla Roadster, Space Oddity, Spacelopnik115 people like this. Like
November 1, 2017 at 1:15 PM Yesterday, we reported on an alarming development for the future of electric cars: we may not have enough of the crucial minerals needed for their batteries to meet the expected demand. Supplies of nickel and cobalt are going to be needed in far larger quantities than ever before, and it’s looking like we may not have…Read more... Tags: Science, Tesla, Car Tech, Spacelopnik67 people like this. Like
July 26, 2017 at 8:30 PM Remember the Simpsons episode where Homer was sent into orbit? It had Buzz Aldrin and James Taylor as guests, and gave the world the Overlord Meme. The episode was titled Deep Space Homer, and I have some serious questions and theories about the spacecraft featured in the episode, a strange spaceplane called the …Read more... Tags: Science, Simpsons, James Taylor, Homer, Buzz Aldrin, Torchlopnik, Spacelopnik143 people like this. Like
June 15, 2017 at 11:17 AM China is planning to land people on the moon by 2036. If China does this right, then at least one of those people will be a woman. Objectively, it seems absurd that this needs an explanation, but we know what the world is like. So here’s why.Read more... Tags: Science, China, Women, Spacelopnik122 people like this. Like
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