The Banks Orbital is a ring-shaped Space Habitat over a million miles across with hundreds of times more living area than the entire Earth.
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The Banks Orbital: God’s Bracelet
Episode 445; February 29, 2024
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As we return human spaceflight to Atlas, we pass the torch of knowledge to future generations, building on all we have learned.

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Go to https://ground.news/droid to access data-driven information from around the world. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access. From the mid-60s up to 1981, swing-wing aircraft led the way for new multirole aircraft that combined the low-speed stability and efficiency of a straight wing with the high-speed performance of a swept wing and led to some of the most famous fighters and bombers of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. But from 1981 onwards not a single new aircraft was built with a swing-wing design. In this video, we look at why this happened.

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Reigniting Atlas’ legacy of launching humans to space, ULA is using an Atlas V rocket to launch the Crew Flight Test (CFT). Check out how the Atlas V rocket was stacked ahead of launch.

Take a tour of Launch Site One, nestled in the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas, where astronauts fly to space and back onboard New Shepard.

Orbital rings are a powerful alternative to space elevators for getting into space, but are often thought to be limited to a circle around the equator.

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There are billion of binary star systems in our galaxy, including many of those stars closest to us. Can such systems host life, and what would it be like to live under two suns?

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Colonization & Habitability Of Binary Star Systems
Episode 444a; April 28, 2024
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The Energia Vulkan design was the largest of the Energia concepts with eight Zenit booster rockets and an Energia-M core as the upper stage, the Vulkan (which shared the name with another Soviet heavy lift rocket that was cancelled years earlier) configuration was initially projected to launch up to 200 metric tonnes into 200 km orbit with inclination 50.7°

The development of the Vulkan and the refurbishment of Universal Test Stand and Launch Pad at site 250 for its launches was in progress between 1990–1993 and abandoned soon after due to a lack of funds and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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