Thursday 23 February 2017
"The dawning of the age of Aquarius?"
New Earth-size planets found in a habitable zone only 235 trillion miles away
Link to: NASA Telescope Reveals
Wednesday 22 February 2017
Union Jack's beanstalk into outer space
Britannia is obviously keen
on having her fair share
of golden space eggs, too.
Link to: Government announces boost for UK commercial space sector
Link to: Launch UK brings together UK commercial space sector
Thursday 9 February 2017
Can one bank on ASTERANK ?
Asterank, which defines itself as
" a scientific and economic database of over 600,000 asteroids",
appears to be as scientifically sound as can currently be expected
and is consequently not to be dismissed
as some kind of cleverly presented student prank.
(Even so, potential investors in space mining
are likely to take it all with a grain of salt.)
Link to: ASTERANK
Link to: JPL Small-Body Database Browser
Wednesday 1 February 2017
"Luxembourg is a bit analogous to a utopian space colony"
This line is from Sarah Scoles's latest article
on Luxembourg and space mining,
entitled "Luxembourg’s Bid to Become the Silicon Valley of Space Mining"
and written in a lively, playfully factual and objectively critical way.
Link to: Sarah Scoles's January 2017 article in WIRED.COM
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