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A private group backed by Hawking will spend its hammers and gold to send chip-sized spacecraft in a tiny, laser-driven version of Project Longshot. BBC: Hawking backs interstellar travel project

Meanwhile, in ground-based telescopes :P Press-release. Research paper.

This tutorial is intended for begginers. Some days ago I was wondering a way to go from the Cape to the Moon using less math as possible, avoiding IMFD, TransX and LTMFD, and avoiding the plane alignment burn shown in the stock Orbiter tutorial. You can't simply launch a vehicle to a parking...

NASA’s Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/07/uae-plans-unmanned-mission-mars-2021-2014716112542338474.html

It seems that George Carlin was right... Rocks Made of Plastic Found on Hawaiian Beach

Despite all that happened here, the tournament is coming... We haven't the atmosphere of the other World Cup years, every four years we decorate the country with flags and you used to sense it in the air - this year things are weird, maybe because of the excessive police force on the streets...

Group Stage matches are defined. These matches are scheduled for my city: Australia x Netherlands France x Honduras Nigeria x Argentina South Korea x Algeria And another match (probably Germany vs. Russia or South Korea) in Round of 16. England vs. Italy in Manaus, in the middle of the...

Researchers break Newton’s third law — with lasers The link to the paper is at the end of the article.

There aren't many english sources about this, I don't know if it's a hoax. Can anyone confirm?

I don't know if it's the right section, but, anyway... I have zero experience with good joysticks (even in FSX, where I use a playstation-like joypad). What joystick models do you suggest to play Orbiter?

I noticed some difference between LEO and low Moon orbits: orbits around the Moon are much more stable than LEO orbits (I always play with all perturbations on). It's much easier to do sync and rendezvous planning around the Moon than in LEO. Periapsis precession seems to be slower in LLO, per...

After three years playing Orbiter in a notebook, in istalled it in a desktop. The inline client worked well, with a huge FPS improvement. I installed the D3D9 client. The framerate dropped from D3D7 and I got these images below. I'm using Windows XP with DirectX 9.0c and a GeForce 7300 GS...

I'm a little bit confused about this. I know Orulex and used it once, but I was looking for terrain generators and found that Orulex is "obsolete". Despite this, there are some recent "terrain detection" addons based on it. Looking at recommended addons list, I found no links for terrain...

I'm playing with a little built-in vessel AP (to learn how to write custom vessel autopilots). It consists in lift-off from an airless surface at constant VACC until an arbitrary altitude, when the hover engine shutdowns and waits the vertical speed approaches zero. Then, the hover engine would...

Soyuz TMA-08M, March 28 - Expedition 35 Next Soyuz Crew Will Take 6-Hour Fast-Track to Space Station

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Reull_Vallis_a_river_ran_through_it

Hi I'm trying to make Pluto, cfg file only at moment, without moons. Everything is going fine, except for: 1) The geocentric coordinates (RA, Dec) in Orbiter aren't matching those of JPL Horizons solution (I'm using 01-01-2000 12:00 UTC for testing). Orbiter gives RA 00h 29 46.15s and Dec -14º...

I've already done a couple of slingshots around Mars, Jupiter and Titan, so, I thought I had understood the basic concepts of flybys. I'm trying to do a tour around jovian moons using slingshots to save fuel, but something apparently weird is happening: it doesn't matter if I pass close to a...

I'm making a reentry veichle, it uses parachutes at its final flight stage to do a splashdown (animations are ok). I'm aware of the AddForce funcion, but I'm not really sure on how to use it (tried to set its value proportional to dynamic pressure, but had weird results and the best splashdown...