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2021-05-21 Science & Technology

European Space Agency reveals ambitious plans to build a sat-nav and telecommunications network around the MOON in move that could transform our lunar satellite into the 'eighth continent'

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-21 10:22|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Ooooh! Ooooh!
Can we call it Galileo Figero?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-21 14:50|| 2021-05-21 14:50|| Front Page Top

#2 What do you think Starlink is practice for? Do you think Musk's Mars colony will depend on a single relay satellite that's shared with a bunch of 'bots?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-05-21 20:11|| 2021-05-21 20:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Musk is also developing batteries and autonomous vehicles, two technologies that would be quite handy on Mars. There just might be method to his madness.

Posted by SteveS 2021-05-21 21:09|| 2021-05-21 21:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Batteries still have a long way to go, I’m told, though they are improved over what they were.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-05-21 21:19|| 2021-05-21 21:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Musk is doing some interesting things in Australia with big-ass battery farms. Completed is a 100 megawatt unit to save South Australia from its disasterous flirtation with 'renewable power'. Next up is a 300 megawatt big boy.

Posted by SteveS 2021-05-21 22:30|| 2021-05-21 22:30|| Front Page Top

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