Radio Free Internet? The cubesat revolution it would seem, is just beginning. And if a bold plan announced on Monday comes to fruition, it might just lead to revolution of the rather messy kind. The Outernet project, a creation of the non-profit New York based Media Development Investment Fund, seeks to develop and deploy a […]
Apparently there is no need to compose “Ode to a Rover Dying Young.” At least not yet. Chinese new service Xinhuan.ner has confirmed that the Yutu, or “Jade Rabbit” Moon rover is coming back to life after surviving the deep cold of the two week lunar night. Shortly before going into a planned hibernation mode, the […]
Aviation Week is reporting that European launch company Arianespace is preparing to ask the European Union for increased subsidies in the face of competition from SpaceX and difficulties with exchange rates. “Given the weakness of the dollar and the situation with SpaceX, it is not out of the question that our effort to raise our […]
NASA reported today on an intriguing line of inquiry in the hunt for evidence of liquid water running on the surface of Mars. Once thought to out of the question, recent years have seen a number of images which strongly suggest the presence of seasonal water flows of what is speculated as a very salty […]
NASA has launched DiskDetective.org, a crowdsourced science project aimed at engaging the general public in identifying planetary nurseries in the debris fields surrounding stars. RELEASE 14-038 NASA-Sponsored ‘Disk Detective’ Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency’s Wide-field […]
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