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The Wow signal is SETI's founding myth. Most have dismissed it, but for 35 years, until his death last year, one man never stopped searching. Bob Gray's final research, "Could the "Wow" signal have originated from a stochastic repeating beacon?" was published in June with astronomer David Kipping.

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Submitted by EricFromOuterSpace t3_y77ogm on October 18, 2022 at 1:52 PM in space

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Extragalactic SETI looks for life beyond the Milky Way. But where? In game theory one solution is a Schelling point — a single event that draws different group's attention. A binary neutron star merger could act as one, because observers across the universe will all be looking in the same direction.

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Submitted by EricFromOuterSpace t3_z86hpt on November 29, 2022 at 9:17 PM in space

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Luxurious space hotels are a classic Sci-Fi trope. But American hospitality giant Hilton recently signed a deal with Lockheed Martin and Voyager Space to build the solar system’s first space hotel onboard Starlab — a space station with NASA funding — which is currently under development.

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Submitted by EricFromOuterSpace t3_zyb1l9 on December 29, 2022 at 5:33 PM in Futurology

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Huge amounts of fuel are required to launch even small rockets to orbit. But a Scotland based private space company is working on a new technology that converts previously unrecyclable plastic into high-performance rocket fuel. The process yields 650 to 750 liters of usable fuel per ton of plastic.

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Submitted by EricFromOuterSpace t3_zk4blv on December 12, 2022 at 4:49 PM in space

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In December SpaceX launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite for NASA and CNES. It will survey nearly all the water on Earth.

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Submitted by EricFromOuterSpace t3_10364o6 on January 4, 2023 at 3:19 PM in Futurology

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A spaceflight disaster was narrowly avoided in 1972. A series of intense solar flares exploded in August, just months before the launch of Apollo 17. Any astronauts on the moon at that time would have died from radiation. As NASA's new lunar missions progress, the threat of radiation still looms.

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Submitted by EricFromOuterSpace t3_10q1c3x on January 31, 2023 at 3:05 PM in space

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Space hotels are a classic Sci-Fi trope. But American hospitality giant Hilton recently signed a deal with Lockheed Martin and Voyager Space to build the solar system’s first space hotel onboard Starlab — a space station with NASA funding — which is currently under development.

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Submitted by EricFromOuterSpace t3_107hyt6 on January 9, 2023 at 4:00 PM in space

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Starship's much-anticipated first orbital flight could be as soon as next month. All 33 engines on the Superheavy booster will burn for 170 seconds before separating for a water landing in the Gulf of Mexico. If Starship reaches orbit it will return for a water landing off the coast of Hawaii.

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Submitted by EricFromOuterSpace t3_10b2zdc on January 13, 2023 at 7:22 PM in space

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DARPA is Reigniting the Nuclear Engine

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Submitted by Afrin_Drip t3_118iw6m on February 21, 2023 at 11:42 PM in space

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"We're not calling this a rescue Soyuz." For the first time in the 22 year history of the ISS, a docked spacecraft has been declared unfit to return its crew. A meteoroid strike damaged the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, and 3 temporarily stranded astronauts now wait for the launch of a new ride home.

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Submitted by EricFromOuterSpace t3_10vax90 on February 6, 2023 at 4:30 PM in space

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In 1960 renowned Australian physicist Ronald Bracewell speculated that alien societies may have already sent robot probes to our Solar System. He inspired sci-fi authors — but not serious research. Now, with NASA and The Pentagon taking UAPs seriously, it may be time to dust off Bracewell's ideas.

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Submitted by EricFromOuterSpace t3_117h0ne on February 20, 2023 at 6:48 PM in space

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Rocket reusability has lead to a major and "often overlooked" SpaceX benefit: “It's an incredible advantage in reliability to get your hardware back and learn stuff you didn't expect ... companies that don't recover their rockets have issues they don't know about, that someday will bite them.”

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Submitted by EricFromOuterSpace t3_11k4np5 on March 6, 2023 at 5:03 PM in space

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A Hollywood sci-fi prop shop became the best kept secret in aerospace. Because everything at Norton was in fact real—decommissioned engines, solenoids, and avionics units. Entrepreneurs realized reverse engineering these artifacts from NASA's golden age could give them an edge over the competition.

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Submitted by EricFromOuterSpace t3_11wnt7g on March 20, 2023 at 4:39 PM in space

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SETI's new machine learning algorithm works like Google's "reverse image search" on a galactic scale, and has already uncovered eight currently unexplained signals. Researchers train the algorithm on simulated alien signals, then look back through old data to see if we missed anything in the noise.

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Submitted by EricFromOuterSpace t3_123oz7i on March 27, 2023 at 2:45 PM in space

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