ToughSFさんのイラストまとめ

Germany has @isaraerospace, a company that wants to build a small expendable two-stage launcher that would put 1 ton into orbit using propane (?) engines. It aims for $10,000/kg, weekly missions and 2021 for the first launch.
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A French MirageIV supersonic bomber performing JATO takeoff.
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Zenith Star.
A giant 40 ton space laser from the SDI era. It had its own booster for launch (Barbarian), and deployed a megawatt-scale hydrogen fluoride Alpha laser, focused by the 4m diameter LAMP mirror.
https://t.co/F204YEBfvR

Brilliant painting by Tim Barton. I believe it is a 'stellar nursery'.
#space #art
https://t.co/DkKpYs0j8w

Fascinating account of how the concept of using antimatter to power a photon rocket was brought forward and popularized by Eugen Sänger, even as unsurmountable problems were being discovered.
https://t.co/sdMzHf1fAz

People will eventually have pets in space. And one day, there'll be such an abundance of resources that some can be dedicated to designing a spacesuit for an animal companion. It's a bit funny, a bit aspirational.
#space #art by Edouard Groult.
https://t.co/hwhmMVZnnz

Neutrino-driven heating of material around the core of a collapsing star can cause material to be ejected asymmetrically. The recoil force from this sort of supernova can eject the core at hundreds of km/s.
https://t.co/V96sQ3ExfB

Personal drop pods from Titanfall 2. I like the use of three separate mechanisms (airbrake, parachute, foam cushion) for slowing down.
Concept art by Danny Gardner.
#space #art
https://t.co/Gum9JOSj0E

The Sukhoi T-12 was a strange twin-fuselage Close Air Support plane design that featured forward-swept wings and stacked turbofan engines that could shut off in flight to save fuel, and even considered Wing-in-Ground flight for further fuel savings.
https://t.co/HplK0lKAW8

Concept art for the Cepheus, the spaceship that takes off from Mars and travels all the way to Neptune.
Design inspirations include the Soyuz craft and magical relativistic solar panels.
#space #art by Stephen Zavala.
https://t.co/6KIrjCZuqb