Elite: Dangerous - 1.2 - Looking at the New Ships With The New Camera
Elite: Dangerous v1.2 arrives today adding the ability to form into wings with your friends, new heat mechanics, emergency in flight repairs, a couple of new ships and an exterior camera to admire the exterior of your spacecraft. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmtK3nFKvME
Starship Corporation pitches itself as a spaceship builder simulator, a strategy game where you are in the business of building spaceships for profit. The game mechanics initially have you bidding on contracts, designing spacecraft, testing the ships and eventually building ships.
http://www.starshipcorporation.com/
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Xenonauts is an unofficial remake of XCom (also known as UFO in the UK), it's intended to be much more faithful to the original mechanics with expanded base management and air battle events. Version 1.0 has just been released on Steam and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ_knzdb9iI
Kerbal Space Program really wasn't designed with helicopters in mind, which is exactly why they're filled with such potential for explosiveness and therefore ideal for a livestream.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqClNxM58M
The final part of my original plan, covering how plutonium is made for use in weapons, collected and compiled from public sources, this covers the isotopes and how they're transformed by neutron bombardment and radioactive decay.
Thanks to https://twitter.com/ICBMDeputy for the Sandia Labs Shirt!
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I've been busy, and so has the world of space and rockets, I wanted to talk about a couple of things, including a report which lays out just how much money NASA is spending on the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEJWuHxUyrk
In 1991 NASA was still designing its Freedom space station, and with the recent opening up of the Soviet Union NASA began to investigate using the Soyuz as a return vehicle for the station. Due to complications resulting from Orbital mechanics this would require flying the Soyuz spacecraft *inside* the Space Shuttle payload bay.
I have to give a lot of credit to David Portree who researched this in the past and made it easy for me to find the sources I needed. This is his original article from 2015:
https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2015/03/international-space-nasas-1992-plan-to.html
He also has a Patreon which is supporting him while he's between jobs, I'm a supporter because he's one of the best space historians out there :
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=168347
Here's a few other references for those who are interested:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930018390.pdf
http://archive.gao.gov/t2pbat3/151975.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=k05ThJo7GWoC&lpg=PA598
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxz7n4eVqSk
Lovers in A Dangerous Space Time is a 2 player collaborative arcade shooter which sees 2 players running around a spaceship between control stations to fly a spaceship through... a dangerous spacetime.
Yes, crew management simulators have never featured so many bunny rabbits.
http://www.loversinadangerousspacetime.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJwLqFlow_I
Congratulations to ISRO for successfully soft landing on the moon with the Vikram lander from the Chandrayaan 3 mission - and over the last few days I've been hoping to get enough cool photos and footage to make a feature video, but as of right now I have a limited amount of stuff to work with, so bear with me as I dig into what we can learn from the images we've seen.
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If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley
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Yesterday Rocket Lab made a series of announcements, firstly Rocket Lab will become a public traded corporation on the stock markets, secondly Peter Beck made true on his commitment to hat eating.
But most interestingly, they commited to building a larger, medium lift launch vehicle called neutron, and that's what I want to talk about.
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/
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