space – Karma https://karmaimpact.com Advancing people, planet and profit. Mon, 02 Dec 2019 17:12:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 How the Private Sector Became a Major Player in the Space Race /how-the-private-sector-became-a-major-player-in-the-space-race/ /how-the-private-sector-became-a-major-player-in-the-space-race/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:44:13 +0000 /?p=13898 Vice President Mike Pence may have promised to make America’s space program “great again” and to make sure Americans were the next humans on the Moon, but robots may beat the U.S. to it. “We will ensure that the next man, and the first woman, on the moon will be American astronauts,” Pence said earlier […]

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]]> /how-the-private-sector-became-a-major-player-in-the-space-race/feed/ 0 Space Tourism Calling: Thousands Are Ready to Board Virgin Galactic /space-tourism-calling-thousands-are-ready-to-board-virgin-galactic/ /space-tourism-calling-thousands-are-ready-to-board-virgin-galactic/#respond Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:44:25 +0000 /?p=13734 Virgin Galactic, the first and still the only space tech company to go public, disclosed results for the third quarter this week. It reported $80 million in deposits and $120 million in potential revenue, and founder Richard Branson promised investors to be profitable by 2021.  Virgin Galactic needed 15 years since its founding to get to […]

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]]> /space-tourism-calling-thousands-are-ready-to-board-virgin-galactic/feed/ 0 Last Star I See Tonight? Astronomers Worry Musk Satellites May Muck Up Views of the Heavens /last-star-i-see-tonight-astronomers-worry-musk-satellites-may-muck-up-views-of-the-heavens/ /last-star-i-see-tonight-astronomers-worry-musk-satellites-may-muck-up-views-of-the-heavens/#respond Mon, 11 Nov 2019 20:20:53 +0000 /?p=13668 As entrepreneurs eye space as the next location for internet infrastructure, astronomers worry the night sky may never look the same. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, using its Falcon 9 reusable rocket, launched 60 Starlink satellites early Monday and hopes to send tens of thousands more into orbit. The satellites are designed to create a broadband Internet […]

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]]> /last-star-i-see-tonight-astronomers-worry-musk-satellites-may-muck-up-views-of-the-heavens/feed/ 0 Astrobotic Shoots for the Moon as NASA Makes Billion-Dollar Bet on Private Companies /astrobotic-shoots-for-the-moon-as-nasa-makes-billion-dollar-bet-on-private-companies/ /astrobotic-shoots-for-the-moon-as-nasa-makes-billion-dollar-bet-on-private-companies/#respond Tue, 24 Sep 2019 19:46:37 +0000 /?p=12297 John Thornton remembers his passion for space being ignited when, in his early teens, the robotic spacecraft Pathfinder landed on Mars with a roving probe. “My ‘Apollo moment’ was seeing the Pathfinder mission” the 35-year-old Thornton said of the 1997 mission. “I still remember building a LEGO model of the rover in school.” Years later, […]

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]]> /astrobotic-shoots-for-the-moon-as-nasa-makes-billion-dollar-bet-on-private-companies/feed/ 0 Musk Tweets “Nuke Mars!’’ in Latest Push to Colonize Red Planet /musk-tweets-nuke-mars-in-latest-push-to-colonize-red-planet/ /musk-tweets-nuke-mars-in-latest-push-to-colonize-red-planet/#respond Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:36:01 +0000 /?p=11654 Elon Musk talks and tweets Mars travel a lot. He even flirted with the red planet over Twitter around Valentine’s Day this year. His most recent comment about planet seemed uncharacteristically un-romantic, sounding like a breakup: “Nuke Mars!” No, the romance is there, as strong as ever. Musk was again highlighting his belief that Mars […]

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]]> /musk-tweets-nuke-mars-in-latest-push-to-colonize-red-planet/feed/ 0 Rocket Recycling: Rocket Lab Plans to Recover, Reuse First Stage /rocket-recycling-rocket-lab-plans-to-recover-reuse-first-stage/ /rocket-recycling-rocket-lab-plans-to-recover-reuse-first-stage/#respond Wed, 07 Aug 2019 20:18:48 +0000 /?p=10610 Rocket Lab takes recycling to new heights

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]]> /rocket-recycling-rocket-lab-plans-to-recover-reuse-first-stage/feed/ 0 PlanetiQ Lands $18.7 Million As Weather Satellite Startup Faces Rising Pressure for Data /planetiq-lands-18-7-million-as-weather-satellite-startup-faces-rising-pressure-for-data/ /planetiq-lands-18-7-million-as-weather-satellite-startup-faces-rising-pressure-for-data/#respond Tue, 16 Jul 2019 20:02:40 +0000 http://3.222.249.12/?p=10159 Weather data company PlanetiQ raised $18.7 million this month to shoot more satellites into space, as climate change stokes demand for more accurate predictions and investors crowd into the space.   The deal, led by New Science Ventures and AV8, brings PlanetiQ’s total funding to $23.9 million. The company plans to send a 20-satellite network aloft […]

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]]> /planetiq-lands-18-7-million-as-weather-satellite-startup-faces-rising-pressure-for-data/feed/ 0 Rocket Lab is Thinking Small to Win the Private Space Race /rocket-lab-is-thinking-small-to-win-the-private-space-race/ /rocket-lab-is-thinking-small-to-win-the-private-space-race/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2019 22:19:04 +0000 http://3.222.249.12/?p=9748 The biggest opportunity in space travel may be in the smallest end of the market.  With its seventh successful rocket launch into low-Earth orbit last week, Rocket Lab — which is billing itself as the “turnkey solution for complete small-satellite missions” — is well on its way to capturing the small spacecraft market. The “Make […]

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]]> /rocket-lab-is-thinking-small-to-win-the-private-space-race/feed/ 0 Open Cosmos: The Small Satellite Company Taking A Giant Leap For Space Technology /open-cosmos-the-small-satellite-company-taking-a-giant-leap-for-space-technology/ /open-cosmos-the-small-satellite-company-taking-a-giant-leap-for-space-technology/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2019 19:00:33 +0000 http://3.222.249.12/?p=9727 The spark came when Rafael Jorda Siquier was still a teenager, in his first year at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona. With some friends, he had mounted a camera on a helium balloon and sent it into the upper atmosphere.  To his surprise, the photos that came back showed the curvature of the […]

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