Recent content by Rob77

Just learned HEO is an Australian company - how about that. I'm finding more about Australian space programs, companies through space.com than through any Australian media. Doesn't surprise me, my daughters in yr 11 and whole time in high school probably had only 3-4 lessons on astronomy and...

Admit a little disappointed at the delay, I'm sure month ago they were eyeing early May? But I guess its to be expected. It looked like they were getting another ready, maybe they might try 2 test runs consecutively?

Yes...but... Reading anything related to Chinese space program always makes me chuckle - can't help but think of Space Force series with Steve Carell. The sad thing is how close to the truth that series might be.

Finally! An EVA suit that isn't a design from the 1960's. Nice to see we are progressing (thank you SpaceX), look forward to see how they will design the oxy tank to work with that suit.

Ive always wondered what future space warfare will look like - here's one potential - disguise projectiles as "debris" if they really wanted to target a specific satellite or even a space station.

It seems part of the rotor must have flung off as it was winding up / down - couldn't imagine it landing so nicely as in the picture if it came off mid flight. Lucky actually.

While I agree with all the problems you have mentioned I firmly believe we still need to advance beyond our own planet. Obviously wont happen in our life time but we have a naturally driven curiosity - I'm constantly reminded about JFK speech - why go to the moon? Saying that, there's another...

Probably cause majority of funds are going to the Starliner program than their passenger plane fleet

Best of luck to the lander - hope we can get some video footage of the descent and land (rather than just photos). Still boggles the mind how this day and age we still get only photos from all these space expeditions (I understand the data packets to send are big, but to use an aussie...

I briefly remember the Roover naming that occurred last year, but had no idea they were taking submissions for Design. Apparently Phase 1 has already happened. Didn't really think it was public knowledge unless Ive been living under a rock? (Not that I would have time to design something...

As a human race we are all adventurers, explorers at heart I believe. Using robots for everything takes away from our humanity I feel. I understand that there are things robots can do better, but by putting feet on Mars, I am reminded of JFK's quote - "why go to the moon"?

I too question this - if they are serious about sending people to Mars wouldn't they testing long term exposure in space over a typical Mars mission which im assuming would take at least 18 months. I do hope the Russians have this in mind - I don't care who gets to Mars first, I just want to...

Very nice - but do they have all the raptor engines? That would be 128 engines ready to go! If so that's more impressive than the stainless steel cylinders.

Not so easy to design and test a probe in vacuum of space where we cant realistically test designs here on on Earth with gravity. Personally id like to see a probe able to be flown manually like a drone - there's about 3 seconds of latency I believe from here to the moon. If a probe is not...

I beleive the Chinese do launch from a structure as you have described. I guess to build a base on a cliff has infrastructure / development and high cost issues. But with what we've seen with bigger rockets and the damage they can do, we may see this more in future.