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16 Mar 2018, 1:25 pm
A satellite in low Earth orbit travels at over 17,000 miles per hour, relative to the ground. [read post]
23 May 2012, 2:56 am
Shortly after SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket placed the company’s Dragon spacecraft into orbit early Tuesday, the White House issued a congratulatory statement from John Holdren, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 3:41 am
First, he says, “suck it up and fund SpaceX” and other companies to take over access to low Earth orbit. [read post]
27 Aug 2023, 7:27 pm
“A NASA instrument to provide unprecedented resolution of monitoring major air pollutants – down to four square miles – lifted off on its way to geostationary orbit at 12:30 a.m. [read post]
17 Jan 2008, 7:13 am
Their UK importer, Orbital Wines Ltd. of the South African RAATS Family Wines, has just gone into administration (corporate bankruptcy). [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 11:31 am
It was 50 years ago February 20th that John Glenn heard the call and became one of our first space-race heroes by orbiting the Earth not once but three times to take the lead in the race away from the Soviets and secured the U.S. as a legitimate Superpower. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 10:19 am
These include: The lateral orbital wall Continue reading [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 2:30 pm
To celebrate its 22nd anniversary in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has released a dramatic new image of the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula because its glowing filaments resemble spider legs. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 7:36 am
- Popular MechanicsFor the past few years, NASA has been funding private space companies in the hope that they can build spacecraft that will carry astronauts to orbit. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 4:09 am
Houston area members of Congress are continuing to complain about NASA’s decision not to award the city with a retired shuttle, nearly two weeks after NASA announced the sites that will host a retired orbiter. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 3:16 pm
Such facilities are apparently called privately-owned orbital facilities or POOFs. [read post]
14 Dec 2018, 12:01 am
The three-man crew – Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt – made 75 orbits of the moon and spent over 22 hours on its surface. [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 5:22 pm
We noted here earlier this week that, in a speech last week, Office of Science and Technology Policy director John Holdren may have gone a little too far in taking credit for the recent successful SpaceX Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) test flight. [read post]
26 Aug 2015, 1:01 am
” Then, on October 4, the Soviets used the ICBM to blast into orbit the first artificial Earth satellite, a bundle of instruments weighing about 184 pounds called Sputnik, a combination of words meaning “fellow-traveler of the Earth. [read post]
14 Aug 2010, 7:39 am
Gilbert adds that her form of suffering involves compulsively taking care of 'anyone who comes within' her orbit. 'Do you think Philip Roth ever set aside his novel so he could change the sheets in the guest bedroom for the third time that week? [read post]
6 Nov 2009, 4:38 pm
That option defers a human return to the lunar surface in favor of missions to lunar orbit, Lagrange points, and near Earth asteroids in the near term, gradually building up experience for eventual human missions to Mars. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 10:53 am
A method of supplying power to a device located on the surface of a planet, comprising the steps of: orbiting at least one satellite around the planet, wherein the satellite comprises a nuclear reactor for generating electrical power; generating electrical power via the nuclear reactor; converting the generated electrical power… [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 7:12 pm
“For many Americans, daily life orbits around a high-speed Internet connection. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 7:04 am
Senate passed a NASA authorization bill Thursday that would add a space shuttle flight to the manifest next year and require the space agency to get started immediately on a heavy-lift rocket capable of supporting manned missions beyond low-Earth orbit. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 4:07 pm
Today, the Hubble Space Telescope orbits 340 miles above the Earth, capturing crisp images of 10,000 galaxies that are up to 13 billion years old. [read post]
