The previous mission failed to make orbit, crashed into ocean. A Delta II rocket blazed off the launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California early Wednesday morning to…
Category: Technology
New battery technology will be great – if it is viable
We’ve seen so many press releases for a new battery technology that seems almost to good to be true over the years. A lot of them were and never made…
Update on the 'zombie' ISEE-3 spacecraft
Watching my local news last night, I noted an interview with Dennis Wingo that was labeled Zombie Spacecraft Rescue Planned by Private Group. It seemed an apropos title so I’m going with…
NASA to attempt launching another 'carbon observatory' – the last one burned up
WUWT readers may recall that back in 2009, we reported on the first attempt: Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite burns up Now they are trying again. From NASA JPL: NASA’s first spacecraft…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project Update: We Have Telemetry Data and an Engine Firing Date
If we can maneuver the spacecraft by June 17th we get the very small delta V number for the maneuver above. However, this starts to climb rapidly as the spacecraft gets closer…
Citizen astronomers and engineers get control of an old satellite from 1978
Success! We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft Thanks to the many WUWT readers that contributed to make this a success! These guys didn’t disappoint. They pulled it…
NASA Signs Agreement with Citizen Scientists Attempting to Communicate with Old Spacecraft
Readers may recall The International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3) Reboot Project, Bringing an Old Bird Back to the Earth, and Back to Life. Congratulations to Dennis Wingo and the ISEE-3 team…
Update: ISEE-3 Reboot Project: Aiming for First Contact
Guest essay by Dennis Wingo Today’s update regards the progress of the ISEE-3 Reboot Project team in our preparations to contact the spacecraft. We started this effort 34 days ago…
The International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3) Reboot Project, Bringing an Old Bird Back to the Earth, and Back to Life
Citizen backed space science attempts to do the near impossible Guest essay by Dennis Wingo Life isn’t fair. So many times in my life I start to do something and…
Scientists with frickin' weather control lasers in their heads
From the University of Central Florida ‘Dressed’ laser aimed at clouds may be key to inducing rain, lightning UCF, Arizona researchers extend length of high-intensity laser with hope of stimulating…
Drought tracking by satellite
From the University of Cincinnati: UC Geographers Develop a System to Track the Dynamics of Drought Detecting drought before it causes more catastrophe: the news could go down like a…
Stunning new first images available from NASA-JAXA Global Rain and Snowfall Satellite
Remote sensing of weather just got a lot more detailed and interesting NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have released the first images captured by their newest Earth-observing…
Mystery plume radar image near Nuclear Test Site – solved
Occam’s Razor – the simplest explanation is most likely People ask me to look into weird things all the time. Since I operate a weather business that specifically offers weather radar…
Turning airliners into flying weather stations
From Scripps Institute New Airborne GPS Technology for Weather Conditions Takes Flight First-time demonstration led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography captures key meteorological data from aircraft, along with the potential…
LED's rule, twisty bulbs drool
Readers might recall I was an early adopter of LED lighting technology. Now it is getting even better. New LED light design offers less energy, more light LEDs are durable…
It's dead, Jim: China's lunar rover fails to reconnect with Earth
UPDATE2: Return of the Jade Rabbit: China’s moon rover back in action BEIJING — China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover, feared to have suffered some irreparable technical difficulties, may yet have…
El Niño sea monitoring system may fail – half dead already
From the “send money or the instrumentation gets it” department comes news that the TAO array may already be toast due to budget constraints. One wonders if money sucked into…
Study: Electric vehicles have little impact on US pollutant emissions
A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that even a sharp increase in the use of electric drive passenger vehicles by 2050 would not significantly reduce emissions of…
The Tesla battery swap is the hoax of the year
What California says about zero-emission vehicles, and why Tesla is committing fraud Guest essay by Alberto Zaragoza Comendador I didn’t create this essay because I dislike electric vehicles. While I’m…
Private launch of geostationary satellite a 'game-changer'
NASA no longer has a monopoly on US geosynchronous orbit launches More pictures follow. From Space.com: The private spaceflight company SpaceX launched a critical commercial satellite mission from Florida Tuesday…
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