Showing posts with label space exploration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space exploration. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Is The U.S. Losing It's 'Space Edge'?

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Bill Nye: U.S. Risks Losing Its Space Edge -- Richard Galant, CNN (CNN) -- Years before Bill Nye became the Science Guy, he was a mechanical...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Voyager 1 Moves Ever Closer To The Solar System's Edge

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Voyager 1 One of the two identical Voyager probes, as photographed by NASA. NASA Voyager 1, Moving Ever Closer To Solar System's Edge, H...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Nasa Probe Sees The 'Edge' Of Our Solar System For First Time

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Detecting clues: The discovery, by Nasa's Interstella Boundary Explorer (IBEX) ship, gives the most complete glimpse yet of what lies be...
Saturday, November 6, 2010

Cassini Camera Stops Shooting Snaps

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From Wired Science: NASA’s Cassini orbiter, the powerhouse producer of mind-blowing Saturn photos, unexpectedly put itself into “safe mode” ...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

Mars Orbiter Back Up And Running Again Following Computer Glitch

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This artist's concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from 2006 features the spacecraft's main bus facing down, toward the red pl...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

New Space Engines May Trade Fuel For Photons

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From Popular Mechanics: Interplanetary travel may soon be powered by propulsion systems lifted from sci-fi novels, as researchers reach for ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Near The Edge Of The Solar System, Voyager 2 Finds Magnetic Fluff

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From Discover Magazine: After three-plus decades of exploring the gas giants, passing the orbit of Pluto, and reaching points beyond, Voyage...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Dream Of Solar Sailing In Space Lives On In New Project

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An artists rendering of a solar sail is shown in this undated publicity image from The Planetary Society released to Reuters. Backers of a f...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

Aluminum Fuel Could Power Future Space Trips

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Powered by Powdered Aluminum: This test rocket soared 1300 feet into the air using seven inches of a new, environmentally friendly fuel made...
Sunday, November 1, 2009

Clinical Immortality And Space Settlement

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Galactic space lines may not be as far fetched as they sound. (credit: Virgin Galactic) From The Space Review: There was a recent article in...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

Plutonium Shortage Threatens Future Deep Space Missions

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Fuel Shortage Dwindling supplies of plutonium-238, the fuel NASA uses to launch probes into deep space and to power Mars rovers, threaten t...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Too Much Radiation For Astronauts To Make It To Mars

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A trip to Phobos comes with extras (Image: NASA/JPL) From New Scientist: FORGET the risk of exploding rockets or getting sideswiped by a way...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

5 Future Robotic Expeditions And What They Could Reveal [Slide Show]

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ESA/AOES Medialab From Scientific American: Some are already on their way and some are still in the works, but here is what we may see from ...