Top space news #5 2015: Space X
This week’s news features more from Space X and Elon’s plans to become the first Emperor of Mars. We have the long-awaited announcement of “billboards in space” and the discovery of an ancient solar system that is home to five Earth sized planets.
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Spaceflight
- Solar sail test flight announced
- A new Moon missions for Europe [Video]
- The asteroid that flew past Earth has a moon!
- Dragon-spotting: 250 miles above Earth [Image]
- Falcon Heavy To Be Reusable
- Elon Musk: From Falcon 9 to Mars Colonization
- Private Space Taxis on Track to Fly in 2017
- All fatal U.S. spacecraft accidents
- Space Billboards! Yay…
- The physics of future space travel
- XV spaceplane packed ready launch
Exoplanets
- Distant “Super Saturn” has an enormous ring system
- Ancient solar system with five Earthlike Planets
- Extreme worlds may be habitable
- Will TESS revolutionise Exoplanet hunting?
- Smaller gas giants could support life
The Solar System
- RT @SPACEdotcom: 5 Reasons to Care About Asteroids
- Tiny NASA Helicopter Drone Could Explore Mars One Day
- A swarm of microprobes to head for Jupiter
- Dawn captures new images of Ceres
- The countdown to Pluto
- How often do asteroids miss the Earth? [Video]
- Microbes may help mine the asteroids
Astronomy
Everything else