All the stories tagged with: space
Gears for future Mars mission tested on an icy Austrian cave
05/08/2012, We could be closing in on that day when man will finally make its first landing on the planet Mars. But to get there will require intense preparation and… hi-tech gears of course! On an icy cave in Austria, a [...]
SpaceX forced to delay Dragon launch to the space station
05/02/2012, Just a few a days ago, we wrote about the partially successful static fire tests of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that will propel the Dragon spacecraft to its journey to the International Space Station. So far, the latest launch date [...]
SpaceX test fires Falcon 9 rocket for Dragron spacecraft launch
04/30/2012, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, popularly known as SpaceX, has fired all nine engines of the Falcon 9 rocket today at Cape Canaveral, Florida as part of the SpaceX’s rehearsals for the Dragron spacecraft’s second launch this coming May 7. The [...]
Blue Origin spaceship design is good to go
04/26/2012, Blue Origin has shown off a color-coded image that depicts an analysis of computational fluid dynamics for their proposed next-generation Space Vehicle. While most of us already have headaches trying to get from point A to point B for our [...]
Astrobotic Technology Contract with NASA Aims to Improve Lunar Prospecting
04/24/2012, Astrobotic Technology has signed a contract with NASA to help conclude whether or not its own polar rover vehicle is fit to transport ice-prospecting payload to the Moon. David Gump, the president of Astrobotic Technology, said, “Astrobotic seeks the immense [...]
Space elevator a reality by 2050?
02/21/2012, We have seen how Mitsubishi’s elevators were able to hit the 60kph mark just earlier this month, but no matter how fast an elevator goes, there still is a limit to the height, right? The tallest buildings in the world [...]
CleanSpace One janitor satellite set to clean our atmosphere
02/16/2012, There are approximately 16,000 pieces of debris larger than 10cm that are known to surround our planet, and there’s nothing pretty much nothing we can do about it bar sending someone up to space to clean it up. Well, it [...]
Augmented Reality system diagnoses medical problems even in space
02/10/2012, When you are in space, there are plenty of restrictions to adhere to, including not being able to eat or drink as you place, and neither can you just pee in the conventional method. Having said that, while most astronauts [...]
NASA commissions space washing machine for astronauts’ dirty laundry
11/30/2011, It seems that when you’re in space, you will no longer have the luxury of changing your underwear everyday. Instead astronauts only get to change their underwear every 3-4 days. This is due to the costs of sending goods into [...]
Stanford is building the “world’s largest” digital camera
11/11/2011, A team at the Stanford University are working on what they are calling the world’s largest digital camera, which was designed to be used to capture images of faint astronomical objects. The camera is being built for the Large Synoptic [...]
R2 robot sends tweets from space
08/25/2011, While Japan’s Tweeting-robot won’t be in space until 2013, NASA’s R2 robot that has recently awakened at the International Space Station has started sending us Tweets from space. It has been reported that the R2 (Robonaut 2)’s twitter account @astrorobonaut [...]
China prepares for “Armageddon” scenario
08/22/2011, Have you heard of 99942 Apophis? If you haven’t, it’s a 46 million tonne, 1,600 foot wide asteroid that’s currently hurtling our way. Before you rush off and start packing and preparing for shelter, not to worry as it is [...]
Cocoon Grid-It! used in NASA experiment
08/15/2011, One of the best ways to attract the attention of the public when you’re selling a product is by attaching big names to it. And that’s what Cocoon Innovations did when it got NASA to use its Grid-It! storage system [...]
