All the stories tagged with space
Landsat program celebrates 40 years of continuous observation on Earth from space
07/23/2012, Today, the Landsat program is celebrating 40 years of continuous earth observation. In case you don’t know what Landsat is, it’s actually a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. First launched on [...]
NASA’s Z-1 prototype spacesuit is completely versatile
07/23/2012, NASA is developing a “do-it-all” spacesuit that can traverse the moon, the planet Mars, or an asteroid. It seems as if the astronauts are trying to hit three birds with one stone with this next generation spacesuit. It’s called the [...]
Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne Aims To Make Satellite Launch Affordable [Video]
07/11/2012, Richard Brandson has unveiled Virgin Galactic’s latest product called LauncherOne. It is a satellite launch platform that has been designed to be cheaper and more efficient than traditional rocket-based launchers. To achieve its goals, LauncherOne supports relatively small 500lbs satellites, [...]
Waldo Canyon Fire scar viewed from space
07/09/2012, What you are seeing above is the scar left by the Waldo Canyon Fire that ravaged 18,274 acres of land and destroyed nearly 350 homes, killing two people and forcing at least 32,000 residents to evacuate. The photo was taken [...]
China successfully docks manned space capsule on orbiting module
06/19/2012, Earlier today, Chinese astronauts were able to successfully dock two spaceships in earth’s orbit for the first time, marking a significant milestone in China’s quest to build its own manned station in space. The Shenzhou 9 spacecraft – manned by [...]
Robotic garden could provide food and oxygen in Mars
06/13/2012, The idea of living in planet Mars is still a far cry from our current reality. But inch by inch, we’re getting closer to that day when humans will finally conquer the Red Planet. A group of students at the [...]
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 [...]
