by Warp Institute | Sep 12, 2021 | Warp News, 📈 Human Progress, 🛰 Space
Space is not a mere playground for scientists. It belongs to everyone and the recent announcements by the ESA resonate with this general agreement. Every citizen has a right to take part in the projects, management, and research of space. This reality may seem...
by Warp Institute | Sep 10, 2021 | 🛰 Space
A major contributor to the high price of space launches is the vast quantities of fuel needed to carry the vessel into space and to its intended destination. Fuel can make up an astounding 90 percent of the weight of a rocket. Researchers in Japan are conducting a...
by Warp Institute | Sep 9, 2021 | Elon Musk, SpaceX, 🛰 Space
We recently covered the rivalry between Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. Still to fly is perhaps the most famous competitor: Elon Musk’s SpaceX. But that’s about to change through an upcoming commercial mission...
by Warp Institute | Sep 9, 2021 | 📈 Human Progress, 🛰 Space, 🤖 Robotics
On September 1st the NASA rover Perseverance collected the first core rock sample from the planet Mars, a historic event that means we can better understand the planet. The Perseverance rover was first sent to Mars in 2020 in collaboration with the European Space...
by Warp Institute | Sep 4, 2021 | 🛰 Space
While Richard Branson's pioneering space tourism company Virgin Galactic has received much attention lately, the company has a less famous but equally promising sibling: Virgin Orbit. Virgin Orbit was founded in 2017 as an offshoot of Virgin Galactic, with the...
