Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, released a video animation this week showing the New Glenn rocket, which they will start building next year at a factory currently in construction at Cape Canaveral. First flights are expected in 2020:
The first stage of the New Glenn will land on a ship platform and be reused up to 100 times.
The company also announced contracts with Eutelsat and OneWeb for satellites launches.
Jeff Bezos has been a space enthusiasts since he was a kid and is determined to see large scale human settlement of space.
Tory Bruno the CEO of United Launch Alliance joins us to talk about the future of humans in space. The new Vulcan rocket, ACES upper stage and CisLunar 1000 are just a few of the topic we cover. Tory lays out an amazing vision with thousands of humans living and working in space.
Space news
SpaceX announces plans to send two people around the moon next year Blue Origin may have lunar ambitions too Autonomous Flight Safety System Virgin Orbit
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Here’s a ULA video about their CisLunar 1000 concept:
Here is a video overview of the Space Studies Institute (SSI) and the High Frontier vision that the institute aims to fulfill:
The late Gerard K. O’Neill was a professor of physics at Princeton, a proponent of large in-space habitats for human expansion into the solar system, and a founder of SSI. In this video he lays out his vision for the High Frontier:
There needs to be a place where people interested in outer space (whether to travel to orbit, work out there, be a student out there, vacation out there, settle on another world, or any of billions of other reasons) can contact and communicate with other people interested in outer space. What exists is woefully inadequate and frustrating and not helpful. This is why we want to create a space social network to connect space enthusiasts and ultimately realize a new life out there!
From the Indiegogo page:
Why Only $1000?
People might ask: “If you’re really serious about creating the space social network of the future, why are you asking for only $1000?”
We made this financial decision for a reason. As mentioned above, the goal of this – specific – Indiegogo campaign is to engage a community of space enthusiasts excited about the possibilities of a new life out there.This community will be our ambassadors. The $1000 will only help us launch the NewSpace Club. And, the NewSpace Club team is currently volunteering; so labor is not a factor yet.
It is true that after the NewSpace Club is launched at www.newspace.club, we will have to hire programmers, developers and software engineers. Many IT companies started with students and volunteers before having to hire people on salary. Some of the resources our members will ask for and those we plan for will cost a lot of money, and perhaps those can be added if we have an InDemand period. Other costs will include specialized hardware, and we can invest pre-seed money in space transportation startups.
We would be very grateful if we went substantially over the $1000 goal of this Indiegogo campaign. We hope we do.
The Testlab settlement is based on the idea of the Russian Babushka Doll – one layer protects the next. On the very inside of the settlement are the Pods, which inhabit the private sleeping quarters, the communal rooms, the greenhouse, as well as the experimental labs and the necessary machinery to sustain life on the moon. Between the pods and the outer most protective membrane is the void that acts as yet another protective layer between livable and unlivable space.
Currently spanning 7km from the city to the space elevator port and growing. Awaiting teraforming landscape update and expansion of the drone membrane artificial atmosphere.
