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29 Apr 2012, 10:04 am
” However, exploration beyond Earth orbit should be done by NASA, he added. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 2:30 pm
The planets, their orbits and their host stars are all vastly magnified compared to their real separations. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 6:55 pm
If the NRC finds it doesn’t the funds would go instead to begin work on a Europa orbiter (the second-ranked flagship in the decadal). [read post]
I DON’T USUALLY REPRODUCE PRESS RELEASES, but this one is right up my alley. It’s from Planetary Re…
24 Apr 2012, 10:38 am
Additionally, water-rich NEAs will serve as “stepping stones” for deep space exploration, providing space-sourced fuel and water to orbiting depots. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 8:38 am
The rocket, which Pyongyang said was intended to put a satellite into orbit, disintegrated some two minutes after blast-off. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 6:45 am
Planetary Resources wants to identify and characterize these top targets before it does anything else.To that end, it has designed a high-performance, low-cost space telescope that Anderson said should launch to low-Earth orbit within the next 18 to 24 months. [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]
23 Apr 2012, 8:15 am
Prison Labor as the Past -- and Future -- of American “Free-Market” Capitalism by Steve Fraser and Joshua B. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 2:30 pm
Orbital's Antares launch vehicle will be conducting missions for NASA under its Commercial Orbital Transportation Service Program and Cargo Resupply Services contract. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 1:27 pm
A year after Gagarin's flight, and half a century ago for us, John Glenn made his orbital flight - 3 orbits around the Earth. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 10:23 am
If the NRC finds that is not possible, the funds would be used instead to begin planning for a Europa orbiter mission, the second-highest priority from the decadal. [read post]
17 Apr 2012, 6:46 am
NASA says by bringing back old equipment, money can be saved by refurbishing the pieces and launching them back up, rather than buying new replacements.By retiring the space shuttles last year, NASA wanted to focus on getting astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, possibly asteroids and ultimately Mars. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 7:47 am
“We are big supporters of commercial,” he said, both for orbital vehicle development as well as the ongoing work by several suborbital vehicle companies. [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 10:34 am
Ariz. 2008) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also Orbit One Commc’ns, Inc. v. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 8:18 pm
Admitting that the plaintiff's exposure to benzene at my client's facility was considerably less than his EPA and OSHA estimated background dose the plaintiff's expert opined that "naturally occurring benzene has a different electron resonance orbit than synthetic benzene" and that only man-made benzene had the toxic electron resonance orbit. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 9:36 am
That said, certain antiquated legal rules are ill-equipped to deal with emerging issues like orbital debris, which threaten the ISS and Hubble and could have catastrophic consequences for the James Webb Telescope. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 5:11 am
“Developing a mutually beneficial relationship between NASA and commercial industry can enable commercial providers to carry human crews to low Earth orbit in the near future,” he writes. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 7:30 am
On April 21, 1997, a capsule carrying a portion of his ashes were launched into orbit aboard a rocket from near the Canary Islands. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 5:08 am
O’ROURKE: Candidates in Orbit: The late, great U.S. space program. “The surprise about the space policies of Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and (to the extent they have any) Rick Santorum and Ron Paul is how alike they are. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 2:30 pm
The City of Dubai--the largest metropolitan area within the emirate of Dubai--is a favorite subject of astronaut photography largely due to the unique artificial archipelagos situated directly offshore in the Persian Gulf, which were built such that their full design is only visible from the vantage point of an airplane -- or an orbiting spacecraft. [read post]
