NASA / JPL recently released Clouds, a new on-line “game” which is a part of the Milky Way Project , a science initiative which seeks to refine some of the vast quantity of observations made by the Spitzer Space telescope and ESA’s Hershel Space Observatory. One of the common emerging themes in space science is that the capacity to […]
Press Conference at 2:00 PM EST Today at the National Press Club.
The newest version of the venerable Russian Soyuz launch vehicle continued a successful launch campaign out of the Arianespace/European Space Agency’s equatorial launch facility in French Guiana Saturday evening. Carrying the multi-purpose French Pleiades 1B observation satellite which will serve military, governmental and commercial customers, the Soyuz-ST-A, which includes a Fregat upperstage, lifted off at 8:02 PM CST (11:02 PM local) Specially modified to withstand […]
After a replacement fueling block from Russia arrived by air on Saturday, the Korean Aerospace Research Institute has set Nov. 29th as the new tentative launch date for its NARO rocket. If all goes as planned, liftoff will occur at 4:00 PM local time. This will mark the third and final flight for the NARO, or KSLV-3 as it is formally designated, and the end […]
Source : Al.com Huntsville and north Alabama have always played a key role in sending people and machines into space, and apparently space is trying to return the favor. On the evening of October 30th, at 5:30 PM, a sonic boom and fireball northwest of Cullman, Al signalled the arrival of meteor substantial enough to be tracked by doppler radar. Now a team of 6 […]
South Korea is counting down to the third launch attempt of its NARO rocket, a two stage vehicle comprised of a Russian built liquid fueled first stage and a domestically produced solid second stage. The rocket, which was originally designated KSLV-1, is named for the Korean Space Center on Outer Naro Island, 300 miles south of Seoul, […]
In yet another positive sign than NewSpace companies working with NASA are pushing the state of the art, Blue Origin released photos and video of a first successful pad escape test featuring its pusher abort system. The test, which took place on Friday at the company’s proving ground in west Texas, featured a full scale model of its New Shepard suborbital […]
Even as NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continues to chart new planets around distant stars at an impressive rate, data gathered from another NASA spacecraft, the Wide-field Infrared Observatory (WISE), is shedding light on a particular class of asteroids shadowing planetary orbits in our home system. Labelled as Trojan asteroids following the initial discovery of the asteroid “Achilles” in a position ahead of Jupiter in 1906, they can precede or […]
Amateur astronomers with Planethunters.org and Yale University have announced the discovery of an unusual solar system in deep space. The system contains a gas giant, dubbed PH1, approximately the size of Neptune circling a binary star. What makes it unusual is that orbiting much further out, roughly 1000 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun, is yet another binary star system. The […]
Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R) recently released an annual “Waste Book” detailing specific examples of perceived waste in the federal spending. As might be expected, NASA was not immune, being tagged for spending just under a million dollars on a Cornell University study which involves sending volunteers to a Mars simulation event in Hawaii to test the […]
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