Public Release: 4-Mar-2019 UCF research laying groundwork for off-world colonies Space economy estimated at $1.1 trillion by 2040 University of Central Florida Before civilization can move off world it must…
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Hubble reveals dynamic atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune
Public Release: 7-Feb-2019 Hubble reveals dynamic atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center During its routine yearly monitoring of the weather on our solar system’s outer planets, NASA’s Hubble…
How to watch NASA’s New Year’s date with a distant space rock
From The Toronto Star Sun., Dec. 30, 2018 To ancient explorers, “Ultima Thule” was what lay past the northernmost edges of maps, beyond the borders of the known world. So…
“Russia will Shape the Future of Spaceflight”: Announces Nuclear Powered Reusable Rocket Programme
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Russia has just raised the stakes in the space race, by going public with a reusable commercial nuclear powered launch vehicle which has been under…
Space Race Game Changer? Chinese Space Elevator Breakthrough
Guest essay by Eric Worrall South China Morning Post has published a claim that Chinese researchers have successfully synthesised a sample of a carbon nanotube material so strong it could…
Another space telescope shuts down – one week after Hubble
Less than a week after the Hubble Space Telescope went down due to a gyroscope problem, the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory has also gone offline. NASA issued a press release…
Despite a mishap, GOES-17 is online and producing imagery
GOES-17, the western USA-centric twin satellite to GOES-16 looking at the east and midwest suffered some sort of mishap during launch and deployment. NASA and NOAA just announced they are…
Twin Japanese robotic rovers land on asteroid Ryugu
Today, Japan made history by landing two rovers onto the surface of an asteroid. The two rovers (named Rover-1A and 1B) fell from their mothership, Hayabusa2, less than 100 meters above diamond-shaped…
Scientists identify Earth-like exoplanets
Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may…
NOAA’s newest GOES 17 weather satellite may not be fixable, and a loss
From NOAA and NextGov reports. The second satellite in NOAA’s $11 billion GOES program continues to experience issues with its most important instrument and officials still aren’t sure what’s wrong.…
Huge planet-wide dust storm on Mars knocks out NASA’s ‘Opportunity’ rover – scientists worried
Dust storm is now on the verge of circumnavigating the entire planet Mars rover Opportunity is in trouble. NASA engineers attempted to contact Opportunity yesterday, June 12th, but did not…
Our newest GOES-R and GOES-S weather satellites will greatly enhance search and rescue capabilities @NASAsocial
Readers may recall that last week I was the guest of NASA KSC to watch the launch of GOES-S, which is going to be a boon for mapping and alerting…
Friday Funny – The ultimate in 'Range Anxiety' for @spacex
This week marked a spectacular achievement by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX; a mostly successful (they lost the core booster) test of the Falcon Heavy booster and recovery system, along with…
Watch it live here -The Falcon Heavy Demonstration Mission
From the what we’ve all wanted to do: “launch an electric car into space” department. Live video feed below. SpaceX is now targeting the launch time at 2:50PM EST. SpaceX…
NASA confirms left for dead "zombie satellite" as being alive
The identity of the satellite re-discovered on Jan. 20, 2018, has been confirmed as NASA’s IMAGE satellite. After an amateur astronomer recorded observations of a satellite in high Earth orbit…
Long dead Zombie Satellite wakes up 13 years later
LONG-DEAD SPACECRAFT WAKES UP 13 YEARS LATER In 2005, a NASA spacecraft named “IMAGE” mysteriously went silent, abruptly ending a successful mission to study Earth’s magnetosphere. Thirteen years later, it’s…
Elon Musk’s Latest Corporate Welfare Effort?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall If the “Fire and Fury” Musk excerpt is true, Elon Musk appears to be rapidly adapting to the spending priorities of the Trump era –…
Miniaturized weather satellites?
CubeSat to Test Miniaturized Weather Satellite From NASA Goddard SpaceFlight Center – Behind every weather forecast—from your local, five-day prediction to a late-breaking hurricane track update—are the satellites that make…
Moss Piglets: First Interstellar Travelers?
Guest post by David Middleton People are gearing up to spread life from our solar system out into the cosmos. But the first life-forms to make that journey won’t be…
Trump administration to launch new Earth observing satellite this week
While climate caterwaulers are ridiculously complaining the Trump administration is blocking new Earth observing satellites from being launched, we find one is on the launch schedule for November 10th. From…
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