As part of expanded coverage under its “News for the New Frontier ” theme, Innerspace.net will be covering a wide variety of news items whose long term impacts could play a decisive role into when, how and to what extent the human race takes takes the next step towards becoming an interplanetary species. Launch […]
A ULA Delta IV lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-37 Thursday evening at 8:59 p.m. Carried to orbit at 11,000 nautical miles and an inclination of 55 degrees was a 3,534 lb. Global Positioning System 2F satellite. The Boeing built spacecraft will take its place in the 31 satellite fleet, […]
Update: As the original version of this story suggested, SES did not book a Falcon Heavy. Leading satellite Comsat operator SES announced today that it has awarded a construction contract for its SES-10 satellite to Airbus Defense and Space, previously known as Astrium. Of greater interest however, is the fact that the 5,300 kg […]
China’s Jade Rabbit may have company yet. After a slow start which saw many of the teams stymied by the multiple challenges of putting together a credible entry in the Google Lunar X-Prize contest. GLXP altered the rules last year to allow for the insertion of milestone prizes totaling $6 million aimed at helping leading […]
Orbital Sciences Press Release ORBITAL SIGNS LAUNCH AGREEMENT WITH SKYBOX IMAGING — Company to Launch Six Commercial High-Resolution Imaging Spacecraft for New Customer Aboard Commercial Version of Minotaur Rocket in Late 2015 — (Dulles, VA 20 February 2014) – Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB), one of the world’s leading space technology companies, today announced that […]
In terms of the culture of space exploration, and what it will take to become a true space faring society, there is probably nothing that compares to the unique and enduring legacy of Star Trek. And while the original series has been re-imagined in two commercially successful movies, the iconic show has been off the […]
With at least 53 confirmed Moons, it’s a little difficult to keep track of everything going on in Saturn’s system, but the amazing Cassini probe which has been on duty there since 2004 is still doing a remarkable job. Overshadowed by methane rich and surprisingly Earth-like Titan, and showy Enceladus, which is jetting ice crystals […]
Equating a product with the Apollo program and America’s signature accomplishment in the Moon landing is hardly unusual, and in this regard Cadillac is no different. A new commercial featuring actor Neal McDonough as a hard driving, over achieving American seems to mirror the current Administration’s somewhat ambivalent attitude towards the Moon. When the White […]
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has seen a fast-moving pulsar escaping from a supernova remnant while spewing out a record-breaking jet – the longest of any object in the Milky Way galaxy — of high-energy particles. The pulsar, a type of neutron star, is known as IGR J11014-6103. IGR J11014-6103’s peculiar behavior can likely be traced […]
From NASA.Gov Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Cygnus spacecraft, which delivered nearly one-and-a-half tons of supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station in January, completed its first commercial cargo mission to the orbiting laboratory Tuesday. NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, with assistance from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, used the station’s 57-foot Canadarm2 robotic […]
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