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South Korea successfully tests space rocket engine
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has launched a single-stage rocket to test a locally made engine as part of efforts to place a satellite into orbit.
The Science Ministry says it has confirmed its engine test was successful after the rocket landed off the southern coast on Wednesday.
It says South Korea aims to develop a domestically built space launch vehicle by 2021.
In 2013, South Korea succeeded in thrusting a satellite into orbit aboard a rocket blasted from its soil for the first time, but parts of that rocket were built with Russian help.
Rival North Korea put its first satellite into space in late 2012, a launch viewed by Seoul and Washington as a test of Pyongyang's long-range missile technology.
Last year, North Korea conducted three intercontinental ballistic missile tests.
Source: https://nypost.com/2018/11/28/south-korea-successfully-tests-space-rocket-engine/
The Space Force is officially the sixth military branch. Here's what that means.
Air Force officials on Friday told reporters that people are clamoring for information on how to join the military's latest branch. The short answer is, they're going to have to wait a while.
President Trump officially signed the Space Force into law Friday, but for now, all that means is everyone at Air Force Space Command will now be assigned to Space Force. Over the next 18 months, officials said, the finer details of manning and training the new branch will be hammered out and set in motion.
"It's going to be really important that we get this right. A uniform, a patch, a song ? it gets to the culture of a service," said Air Force Gen. Jay Raymond, the head of Air Force Space Command and U.S. Space Command, who will lead Space Force until a chief of space operations is confirmed by the Senate. "There's a lot of work going on toward that end. It's going to take a long time to get to that point, but that's not something we're going to roll out on day one."
For now, the 16,000 active-…
Bezos says commercial space travel is his 'most important' work
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Monday that his aerospace company, Blue Origin, is his "most important" project.
Bezos made the comments at the Wired 25th anniversary summit in San Francisco, according to CNBC.
He added that he expects there to one day be 1 trillion humans living somewhere in the solar system other than Earth.
"I won't be alive to see the fulfillment of that long-term mission," he said. "We are starting to bump up against the absolute true fact that Earth is finite."
Bezos also said he will spend more than $1 billion next year to support Blue Origin
"The dynamism that I have seen over the last 20 years in the internet where incredible things have happened in really short periods of time," he added. "We need thousands of companies. We need the same dynamism in space that we've seen online over the last 20 years. And we can do that."
Source: https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/411555-bezos-says-commercial-space…
Blue Origin unveils lunar lander
WASHINGTON — Blue Origin revealed new details about a lunar lander concept that the company's founder says can support a human return to the moon by 2024.
At an invitation-only event here May 9, company founder Jeff Bezos unveiled a full-sized model of the Blue Moon lander the company has been developing, along with an engine named BE-7 that will power the spacecraft. "We've been working on this for three years," he said after a theatrical curtain-raising to reveal the lander model a half-hour into his presentation.
The spacecraft is able to land 3.6 metric tons of cargo on the lunar surface, with a "stretch tank" version capable of landing 6.5 metric tons on the surface. The lander has a deck on the top for hosting payloads, and a davit, or crane, to lower them to the lunar surface.
The lander uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants, rather than storable hypergolics. "It's very high performance," he said of the choice of propellants. "Ultimately, we're going to be able to…
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