SpaceX is going to send its unmanned space capsule Dragon to rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) in February. This will be the first time that NASA has used a commercial flight to ferry supplies up to the ISS.
All you Star Trek fans rejoice, Stephen Hawking has said that we had better head for the stars in order to save humanity. Unfortunately in this current financial climate that just might be a little iffy.
NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) finally fell to earth today but NASA isn’t real sure where it landed. Probably in the Pacific but then again…..
An international project aims to use people’s spare computing capacity to create a giant supercomputer. And if you’re thinking that sounds a little creepy, it might not help to know the project is named the SkyNet.
The University of Surrey and Guildford-based Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) are planning to send an Android smartphone into space. The Surrey Training, Research and Nanosatellite Demonstrator (Strand-1) will be launched in November or December of this year. Once in orbit, a series of experiments will be conducted to see if an android smartphone can communicate from space.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has had several successful missions. Unfortunately their latest mission to Venus was a bust. The Planet-C Venus Climate Orbiter missed its insertion point into the Venus atmosphere.
Many credit the rivalry between the Russian and U.S. space programs as the reason that the U.S. was able to land a man on the moon and the fact that the International Space Station (ISS) exists. Current changes in both of the programs has left the fate of the ISS and space travel uncertain. Now there is a new player in the field, China.
The Brooklyn Space Program is celebrating a successful first mission. And if you’ve not heard of the program, that may be because it is a somewhat lower-budget affair than NASA.
It was often said that Michael Jackson was a superstar with universal appeal. Well, an entertainment company appears to be taking that literally by launching a “virtual planet” dedicated to the deceased singer.
What is going on when the House bill calls for more spending for Russian space transport than on private American interests? Right now it looks as if NASA funding has reached a stalemate in Washington. Obama and Congress are not on the same page.
Forget Simon Cowell: now there’s a music contest that is truly global… and beyond. NASA is hunting for an original song to play to space shuttle crews as they wake up.
While there is no question any more that there are planets out there other than the ones in our own solar system, finding one similar to our own Earth has been a bit trickier. Now at least one scientist is claiming that not only do they exist, but we don’t even need to leave our own galaxy to find them.
Who needs a huge budget like NASA to take some pictures and videos in space? All you need is a phone, some helium and the Internet.
NASA is offering the public the ability to have their picture carried on an upcoming space shuttle mission. But it’s somewhat vague about exactly what this entails.
Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, added another to the list of private ventures to place a vehicle into space with a virtually flawless flight by their Falcon two-stage launch system.
The outfit that paid $10 million for the first non-governmental entity to get a vehicle into space is not done yet, and has just mapped out its X Prize incentives for the next five years and perhaps beyond.
The owners of a TV satellite say there’s a risk it could drift into the path of another satellite and threaten cable TV transmission. The Galaxy 15 satellite went out of control last month, most likely because of a solar storm.
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