by Warp Institute | Feb 3, 2022 | Elon Musk, SpaceX, Starlink, 🛰 Space
Featured Image: The new Starlink Premium Dish. | Image source: Starlink.comOn February 2, 2022, SpaceX announced the next iteration in its state-of-the-art satellite internet service, Starlink.Having launched its first satellite in May 2019, Starlink has only been...
by Warp Institute | Feb 1, 2022 | 📈 Human Progress, 🛰 Space
The new space race is in full swing. While the world's eyes are turned towards NASA and private ventures such as SpaceX, space fans would be wise to keep their eyes on China. On October 23 of last year, China launched the Shijian-21 satellite, which was designed...
by Warp Institute | Jan 28, 2022 | 💡 Innovation, 🛰 Space
We have previously reported on how two feature film projects are competing to become the first to be recorded in space. In the end, it wasn't Tom Cruise and the American film team who won the competition of becoming the first movie produced in space. Russian...
by Warp Institute | Jan 25, 2022 | 💡 Innovation, 🚘 Transportation, 🛰 Space
Whether in real life or Kerbal Space Program, the holy grail of spacecraft is the single stage to orbit vehicle, or SSTO for short. Such a vehicle would, for obvious reasons, be the pinnacle of reusability.SSTOs were widely pursued in the 1990s, for example, by NASA...
by Warp Institute | Jan 22, 2022 | animals, 💡 Innovation, 📈 Human Progress, 🛰 Space
It's an exciting time to be a space fan. Space tourism is emerging; we're going back to the moon and visiting Mars not much later. Yet scientists are already considering issues associated with even longer voyages.As long, arduous, and dangerous voyages to...
