Eve: Valkyrie is a spinoff from the Eve Online universe, a first person space combat game which is exclusive to VR systems. It's been an Oculus exclusive for the last 6 months, and just became a PSVR launch title. But now it's available on Steam and supports any SteamVR compatible headset.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/538870/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVpYs6KkMW8
India's Chandrayaan 2 has been orbiting the moon for over a year but hasn't been sharing the data with the world until just before Christmas. I'd been hoping that the high resolution camera would let us see things on the moon in a detail we'd not seen before, but it appears that they've only shared 3 images and 2 of those are blurry.
Still I hope this is a start and we'll be seeing more data in the future.
Data is available from:
https://pradan.issdc.gov.in/pradan/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hy8iWu11io
Orbital Transport und Raketen AG can claim to be the first private company to attempt to develop a commercial orbital launch solution. Founded by Lutz Kayser and counting Wernher von Braun among its advisors it had a novel approach to commoditizing rocket hardware to create a launch solution that could scale to requirements. It also performed most of the testing and launches in African nations ruled by dictators in addition to making France and the Soviet Union unhappy about a German developed rocket.
The 2015 interview with The Guardian is here:
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/jun/13/naked-island-idyll-eccentric-couple-recall-life-rockets-dictators
And there is a feature length documentary called 'Fly Rocket Fly' which has been shown at film festivals but not released properly in the US http://otrag.com/english-story
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed4w4Cz5ccU
The Androns make their first appearance, and I waste a great deal of effort trying to catch one of them alive, shouldn't have bothered apparently.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV2Uu5gs5vM
In the last few days a paper from the NASA Eagleworks team experimenting with the EM Drive has cleared peer review and been published. Does this really mean that one day we'll be using this technology to drive spacecraft?
Probably not.
Follow up with the The Results of The Best EM Drive Test Yet https://youtu.be/rJM6lP9CuSw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGcvxg7jJTs
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Apollo 14 brought along some extra passengers in addition to the Crew of Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa - a cannister of seeds from the US Forestry service. Partly and experiment, party symbolic, the seeds would be planted and eventually grow into trees all over the US.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAAZYYsOxO8
The John Patrick Mason takes off from Eve and achieves orbit despite having a TWR less than 1, but once in orbit it needs to make another excursion back into the atmosphere to collect data from the upper atmosphere.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aew0CzGZwB4
A tiny startup in San Francisco wants to record 360 videos from the space station and deliver it live to VR viewers.
http://spacevr.co
SpaceVR recently launched a kickstarter to raise money for putting their camera in space and getting the data back. It's a pretty cool project and I'm glad to see they actually have the technical know how to back up the grand idea.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW-XM-YXeMU
Guns Of Icarus Online is a Team Based PVP game where Steampunk airships battle each other in the skies of a ruined world. Each team fields a number of airships, and each airship can be crewed by up to 4 players who can steer the ship, man the guns, or fix bits as they get broken. It was essentially a sequel to the original Guns of Icarus which has the same basic concept but is much more limited in scope.
There's a kickstarter for Adventure mode in progress right now, this will add a persistent world with NPC missions and factions vying for power over the skies.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/musegames/guns-of-icarus-onlineadventure-mode
For this weekend only there's a special 'Pay What You Want' deal at IndieGameStand
https://indiegamestand.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_5ukbvQmeY