Hacker News with Generative AI: Space Travel

The Expanse's Epstein Drive (2019) (blogspot.com)
The Epstein drive technology allows for >250 ton spacecraft to accelerate for several hours at 5g with bursts of up to 12g, achieving a deltaV of 4000km/s, while not having any radiators and a tiny propellant fraction.

Science Fiction, Space Travel, Technology

12 points by EA-3167 16 days ago | 0 comments

FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship, reports property damage on Turks and Caicos (cnbc.com)

SpaceX, Space Travel, Government Regulation, Accidents, Property Damage

5 points by ironyman 34 days ago | 1 comments

SpaceX loses Ship 33 during Starship Flight 7 (twitter.com)

SpaceX, Starship, Space Travel, Rocketry, Accidents

9 points by LorenDB 36 days ago | 7 comments

Starship Flight 7 (spacex.com)
On its flight to the International Space Station, Dragon executes a series of burns that position the vehicle progressively closer to the station before it performs final docking maneuvers, followed by pressurization of the vestibule, hatch opening, and crew ingress.

Space Travel, SpaceX

678 points by chinathrow 36 days ago | 723 comments

Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 (rodneybrooks.com)
This is my seventh annual update on how my dated predictions from January 1st, 2018 concerning (1) self driving cars, (2) robotics, AI , and machine learning, and (3) human space travel, have held up. I promised then to review them at the start of the year every year until 2050 (right after my 95th birthday), thirty two years in total. The idea is to hold myself accountable for those predictions. How right or wrong was I?

Predictions, Future, Technology, Robotics, Space Travel

243 points by timr 43 days ago | 185 comments

Starship's Seventh Flight Test (spacex.com)
On its flight to the International Space Station, Dragon executes a series of burns that position the vehicle progressively closer to the station before it performs final docking maneuvers, followed by pressurization of the vestibule, hatch opening, and crew ingress.

Space Travel, SpaceX

44 points by grecy 49 days ago | 14 comments

Bi-elliptic transfer orbit maneuver (johndcook.com)
The most efficient maneuver for transferring from one circular orbit to another circular orbit of roughly the same size is the Hohmann transfer orbit.

Space Travel, Orbital Mechanics, Engineering

64 points by ColinWright 75 days ago | 25 comments

Self-eating rocket could help UK take a big bite of space industry (gla.ac.uk)
New developments on a nearly century-old concept for a ‘self-eating’ rocket engine capable of flight beyond the Earth’s atmosphere could help the UK take a bigger bite of the space industry.

Space Travel, Rocket Science, Technology, UK

8 points by bookofjoe 77 days ago | 3 comments

Astronauts tight-lipped about reason for hospital visit after 235 days in space (theguardian.com)
Three Nasa astronauts who were taken to a Florida hospital after returning to Earth from the International Space Station two weeks ago told reporters on Friday that they were all in good health following the medical ordeal – and that the agency was “still piecing things together” about what happened.

Space Travel, Health, NASA, Astronauts

60 points by mindracer 104 days ago | 7 comments

NASA Tells SpaceX to Focus on Safety After Astronaut Hospitalizations (gizmodo.com)
A NASA safety panel warned SpaceX to focus on crew safety for its commercial trips to the International Space Station (ISS) after four astronauts were recently hospitalized.

Space Travel, Safety, NASA, SpaceX

4 points by bookofjoe 111 days ago | 1 comments

Shenzhou-18 crew video on life and work in space aboard Tiangong Space Station (youtube.com)

Space Travel, China

7 points by abstractbeliefs 116 days ago | 0 comments

Astronauts return from nearly eight months on ISS after Starliner problems (theguardian.com)
Four astronauts have returned to Earth after a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing’s capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton.

Space Travel, Space Exploration, NASA, Delays

9 points by thunderbong 119 days ago | 0 comments

NASA's Crew-8 mission members return to Earth on SpaceX capsule (npr.org)
NASA’s Crew-8 mission members returned to Earth Friday — capping a nearly eight-month mission after their trip from the International Space Station was extended several times.

Space Travel, NASA, SpaceX

7 points by defrost 119 days ago | 4 comments

SpaceX grounds its Falcon rocket fleet after upper stage misfire (spaceflightnow.com)
SpaceX’s Falcon rocket fleet was grounded for the third time in three months after a second stage problem occurred Saturday following the successful launch of a Dragon Capsule carrying two crew to the International Space Station.

SpaceX, Rocketry, Space Travel, Space Exploration, Launch Failures

42 points by bookofjoe 145 days ago | 6 comments

SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS (apnews.com)
SpaceX launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station on Saturday, sending up a downsized crew to bring them home but not until next year.

SpaceX, NASA, Space Travel

381 points by JumpCrisscross 146 days ago | 346 comments

Boeing Starliner astronauts speak out after capsule leaves without them (apnews.com)
Stuck-in-space astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Friday it’s been tough dealing with their Boeing ride leaving without them and the prospect of spending several extra months in orbit.

Space Travel, Boeing, NASA

11 points by howard941 161 days ago | 0 comments

Starliner departs space station and returns to Earth (arstechnica.com)

Space Travel, NASA, Spacecraft

5 points by ChumpGPT 167 days ago | 1 comments

Boeing Starliner, leaving its crew behind, lands in New Mexico (cbsnews.com)

Space Travel, Boeing, New Mexico

80 points by clessg 168 days ago | 75 comments

Stranded astronauts' capsule heads home without them (bbc.co.uk)
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has completed its journey back to Earth - but the astronauts it was supposed to be carrying remain behind on the International Space Station.

Space Travel, NASA, Boeing

60 points by EwanToo 168 days ago | 59 comments

Radian Aerospace wants to reinvent the space rocket – as a space plane – CNN (cnn.com)

Space Travel, Aerospace, Startups, Innovation

8 points by rbanffy 172 days ago | 4 comments

Starliner crew reports hearing "sonar like noises" (arstechnica.com)

Space Travel, Spacecraft, News

120 points by areoform 173 days ago | 68 comments

NASA makes room on SpaceX trip to return astronauts stuck in orbit (theguardian.com)

SpaceX, NASA, Space Travel, Astronauts

6 points by tosh 175 days ago | 0 comments

SpaceX Falcon 9 booster 'tipped over' into the ocean during landing (theverge.com)