• UrtheCast's HD Video: Real Product Or Smoke and Mirrors?

    Updated: 2012-04-30 13:45:37
    UrtheCast's HD Video From Space Station: Real Product or Hyped Vaporware? "A Canadian company called UrtheCast has begun to claim that it is going to place the first live HD video feed on the International Space Station in a few months. Despite all of their PR and hype, NASA isn't so sure that there actually is a real product and service - as advertised by UrtheCast."

  • Space Shuttle Enterprise prototype arrives in New York

    Updated: 2012-04-30 11:14:02
    The Space Shuttle Enterprise has been moved out of Washtington D.C. now that the city as the real thing: the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center eceived he Space Shuttle Discovery ealier in April, The Enterprise, which was only ever used for gliding tests rather than flying into rbit, was flown from he Udvar-Hazy entrer nto New York while ounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) on 27 April, 2012. It is to be shown at he Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

  • SpaceX Falcon 9 Set for Critical Engine Test Firing on Monday, April 30

    Updated: 2012-04-30 02:34:49
    On Monday, April 30, SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) is all set to conduct a critical static engine test fire of the Falcon 9 rocket at the firm’s launch pad on Cape Canaveral, Florida. If all goes well, SpaceX and NASA are targeting a May 7 liftoff of the rocket and Dragon spacecraft at 9:38 AM, [...]

  • Carnival of Space #247

    Updated: 2012-04-30 01:50:50
    This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at Next Big Future Click here to read Carnival of Space #246. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an entry [...]

  • Yet Another NASA EPO Website With No Clear Purpose (Update)

    Updated: 2012-04-28 21:31:36
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Yet Another NASA EPO Website With No Clear Purpose Update By Keith Cowing on April 28, 2012 5:31 PM View Comments Keith's : note After being inert for a while NASA SpaceSmart.com is back and its official NASA Twitter account SpaceSmart has suddenly become active again . Included are odd grammatically flawed tweets such as JOHN I don't think NASA-inspired inventions

  • Great Article on Biz Dev

    Updated: 2012-04-28 04:22:12
    Here was a fun article from Forbes on business development for startups (“Biz Dev is a Clever Name for Dirty Work“). My favorite quote: I get the impression, from a lot of these biz dev’ers, that they think of biz dev as fun and sexy. One minute you’re grabbing lunch with Ron Conway and Ashton [...]

  • House Appropriators Note CASIS Delays

    Updated: 2012-04-28 00:31:45
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy House Appropriators Note CASIS Delays By Keith Cowing on April 27, 2012 8:31 PM View Comments House Appropriations Commitee FY 2013 : CASIS and ISS excerpt An important element in the decision making about the long term status of ISS is whether it can demonstrate sufficient research value to justify the continuation of its operating budget . Currently , the fraction

  • Surprise Shuttle Landing Video!

    Updated: 2012-04-27 22:19:26
    Talk about the shot of a lifetime! A Canadian airline passenger waiting on the tarmac at JFK this morning got an incredible view of the shuttle Enterprise landing! Just…wow. Video by YouTube user “daujla2″. (Hat tip to the New York Post.) © Jason Major for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | 8 comments | Post [...]

  • Blast from the Past: First Launch Ever from Cape Canaveral

    Updated: 2012-04-27 19:36:42
    When was the first launch ever from Cape Canaveral in Florida? It was on July 24, 1950 with the launch of a Bumper rocket, specifically Bumper #8. It blasted off from Launchpad 3 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It’s amazing to see how close the photographers were allowed to stand to the scene of [...]

  • High Altitude Flyover of New York by Enterprise

    Updated: 2012-04-27 18:35:17
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy High Altitude Flyover of New York by Enterprise By Keith Cowing on April 27, 2012 2:35 PM View Comments Keith's : note Looks like the T-38 chase plane got some nice high altitude shots during the fly over of New York City this morning . Larger view More images below send in yours if you . like Categories Shuttle News Tags enterprise space shuttle Tweet High Altitude

  • Commercial Space Watch: Spacecraft Facilities

    Updated: 2012-04-27 16:34:20
    : Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Commercial Space Watch : Spacecraft Facilities By Marc Boucher on April 27, 2012 12:34 PM View Comments BRPH : The Old and the New in Spacecraft Facilities Commercial Space Watch Switching out a spacecraft maintenance facility is definitely not an easy task . Besides the obvious requirements to contain toxic fuels and provide enough power , there is also the work

  • Expedition 30 Crew Returns to Earth Safely

    Updated: 2012-04-27 16:00:26
    Welcome back home to the Expedition 30 crew of the International Space Station! The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin landed in Kazakhstan on Friday, April 27 at 11:45 UTC (7:45 a.m. EDT). They undocked earlier from the International Space Station at 8:18 UTC (4:18 a.m. [...]

  • Soyuz TMA-22 returns three ISS crew to Earth

    Updated: 2012-04-27 15:57:48
    Soyuz TMA-22 undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 0818 GMT on 27 April and then made de-orbit burn at 1049 GMT. The Soyuz TMA-22 capsule re-entered and landed safely n Kazakhstan via its parachute and rocket retarded echnique t 1145 GMT carrying a crew f an Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin.

  • Image: Baja California As Seen From the International Space Station

    Updated: 2012-04-27 15:28:28
    : Monday , April 30, 2012 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts Image : Baja California As Seen From the International Space Station Submitted by keithcowing on Fri , 04 27 2012 07:28. Earth Cloud vortices off the Pacific coast of Mexico's Baja California were captured by one of the six expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station as three of their number ready for their return trip to Earth in a few days . The Gulf of California or Sea of Cortez is completely clear of clouds as are the inland parts of Mexico and California pictured . The Salton Sea is visible at the lower right edge . ISS030-E-254259 22 April 2012 high res 1.1 M low res 67 K Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by . Disqus

  • Enterprise @NYC

    Updated: 2012-04-27 15:21:27
    Photo: Space Shuttle Enterprise Arrives in New York "Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), is seen off in the distance behind the Statue of Liberty, Friday, April 27, 2012, in New York. Enterprise was the first shuttle orbiter built for NASA performing test flights in the atmosphere and was incapable of spaceflight."

  • India's PSLV-XL successfully launches Risat-1 radar satellite

    Updated: 2012-04-27 15:16:08
    India's first indigenously built adar satellite Risat-1 was successfully launched from the Sriharikota launch site in India by a PSLV-XL at 0017 GMT on 26 April. Carrying a -band Synthetic Aperture Radar SAR) the satellite is to have a variety of military and civilian applications including imaging ocean currents, waves and ea ice nd onitoring aval movements.

  • Blue Origin's ISS Crew Vehicle

    Updated: 2012-04-27 01:23:23
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Blue Origin's ISS Crew Vehicle By Keith Cowing on April 26, 2012 9:23 PM View Comments Blue Origin Tests Design of Next-Generation Spacecraft Blue Origin successfully tested the design of its next-generation Space Vehicle , completing a series of wind tunnel tests to refine the aerodynamic characteristics of the spacecraft's unique biconic shape . The tests were

  • Photos: Space Station Crew Training for The SpaceX Dragon Visit

    Updated: 2012-04-26 17:51:08
    In the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory, NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Expedition 30 flight engineer, conducts the first of three sessions on the ROBoT simulator in preparation for the arrival of the SpaceX Dragon. read more

  • Orion Ground Test Vehicle Arrives at NASA Kennedy Space Center

    Updated: 2012-04-26 17:31:37
    The Orion Ground Test Vehicle arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Operations & Checkout (O&C) Facility on April 21. The vehicle traveled more than 1,800 miles from Lockheed Martin's Waterton Facility near Denver, Colo., where it successfully completed a series of rigorous acoustic, modal and vibration tests that simulated launch and spaceflight environments. read more

  • NASA Aeronautics Hearing

    Updated: 2012-04-26 17:13:13
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy NASA Aeronautics Hearing By Keith Cowing on April 26, 2012 1:13 PM View Comments NASA Aeronautics Research Critical to Maintaining America's Lead in Global Aviation Market Democrats Urge Continued Support for Aeronautics Research Because of the lengthy gestation period needed to move from concept to deployment , industry has often been reluctant to apply resources

  • House Approps Take on NASA's FY 2013 Budget (Update)

    Updated: 2012-04-26 17:02:19
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy House Approps Take on NASA's FY 2013 Budget Update By Keith Cowing on April 26, 2012 1:02 PM View Comments House Appropriations Commitee FY 2013 : Commercial crew excerpt The Committee believes that many of these concerns would be addressed by an immediate downselect to a single competitor or , at most , the execution of a leader-follower paradigm in which NASA

  • Space Marketing Wars

    Updated: 2012-04-26 13:52:54
    Space Marketing Campaigns Heat Up , Commercial Space Watch (With 3 videos) "United Launch Alliance has launched another salvo in the space marketing campaign war with its latest video title "What We Believe". Dan Collins, Chief Operating Office, opens the video saying it's not about the "smoke and fire", which coincidentally is what Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne called their marketing video four months ago."

  • NASA's Tangled Human Spaceflight Web Presence

    Updated: 2012-04-26 02:40:52
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy NASA's Tangled Human Spaceflight Web Presence By Keith Cowing on April 25, 2012 10:40 PM View Comments Keith's : note One night in January I got frustrated trying to find something on NASA's Human Spaceflight website(s So , I decided to map them . As you can see from this chart enlarge NASA's HSF web presence like much of NASA's sprawling cyber infrastructure is an

  • Wanted: Meteor Imagery

    Updated: 2012-04-26 01:23:10
    NASA Asks Public to Provide Videos and Photos of Meteor (with photos of fresh finds) "NASA and the SETI Institute are asking the public for more information to help find amateur photos and video footage of the daylight meteor that illuminated the sky over the Sierra Nevada mountains and created sonic booms that were heard over a wide area at 7:51 a.m. PDT Sunday, April 22, 2012."

  • NASA Technology That Can't Link To Itself

    Updated: 2012-04-25 20:42:50
    Keith's note: NASA Office of the Chief Technologist has no link to NASA Tech Briefs.  NASA Tech Briefs does not link to NASA OCT. In fact, I did a search of the source HTML code on the NASA Techbriefs home page. There are no links to anything at NASA.gov whatsoever. Yet this page features the NASA logo. Baffling.

  • Building Greenhouses In Space

    Updated: 2012-04-25 15:44:31
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Building Greenhouses In Space By Keith Cowing on April 25, 2012 11:44 AM View Comments Astronaut Don Pettit's Diary of a Space Zucchini January 5, 2012 : I sprouted , thrust into this world without anyone consulting me . I am not one of the beautiful I am not one that by any other name instills flutters in the human heart . I am the kind that makes little boys gag

  • Astronauts show snowman how "Walking in the Air" is done

    Updated: 2012-04-25 15:42:02
    For those irked that the "Walking in the Air" choirboy song was used for "The Snowman" animation, this might change your tune. Time lapse photography from the International Space Station (Expedition 30) shows some lovely views (including aurorae, thunderstorms and city lighting) ll et to the ame song.

  • Help Wanted: "Asteroid Miners for Ice, Precious Metals & Minerals"

    Updated: 2012-04-25 15:30:00
    Planetary Resources, the new space venture backed by Google and Microsoft founders that's planning to mine near-Earth asteroids, has begun advertising for 'asteroid miners'. The new company revealed details of its first exploratory missions to mine ice deposits as well...

  • Possible Lawsuit Will Damage Our Ability To Use The International Space Station

    Updated: 2012-04-25 14:32:41
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Possible Lawsuit Will Damage Our Ability To Use The International Space Station By Keith Cowing on April 25, 2012 10:32 AM View Comments Keith's : note Sources report that ProOrbis is considering taking formal legal action against the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space CASIS It is expected that this will be made public in the very near future . The

  • Image of the Day: Supernova Ring in Satellite Galaxy of Milky Way

    Updated: 2012-04-25 11:00:00
    A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a gaseous ring surrounding the supernova 1987A, which exploded on February 23, 1987 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The image, taken with the European Space...

  • Come to Space Fest IV!

    Updated: 2012-04-25 01:30:36
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Happy 22nd , Hubble Meteor , Crater Come to Space Fest IV Like space Like astronomy Wanna meet some astronauts , astronomers , space artists , and hang out with like-minded space enthusiasts Then you want to come to Space Fest IV a convention for people with their feet on the ground but their heads in the clouds . SpaceFest IV will be from May 30 to June 2, 2012 in Tucson , Arizona . The speakers there are top-notch including my friends Andy Chaikin Dan Durda Emily Lakdawalla and Seth Shostak Also in attendance will be a slew of astronauts including quite a few who walked on

  • Proton M/Breeze M successfully launches Yahsat-1B

    Updated: 2012-04-24 09:20:40
    A ussian-built LS perated roton M/Breeze M rocket has uccessfully launched the Yahsat-1B satellite from the Baikonur launch site near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The launch took place at 2218GMT on 23 April. The Yahsat 1B commercial communications satellite uses n Astrium-built Eurostar E-3000 bus and a Ka-, Ku- and C-band communcations payload supplied by Thales Alenia Space. The atellite ill be perated by the Al Yah Satellite Communications Yahsat) firm of Abu Dhabi lso carries a military communications payload.

  • UPDATE: partial Complete success with American Airlines!

    Updated: 2012-04-23 22:36:04
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS I see icy ISS ice floes Breaking : Private company does indeed plan to mine asteroids and I think they can do it UPDATE : partial Complete success with American Airlines Good news : I just received a tweet from the American Airlines Twitter : feed Yay They have decided to not air the audio version of the antivax interview That’s excellent , and I thank American Airlines for . that However , as far as I can tell , the interview is still slated to run in their in-flight magazine . I will hopefully have more news about that soon as . well : Update When I asked about the printed

  • EcoAlert: ISS Camera to Provide World's Real-Time Climate Data

    Updated: 2012-04-23 15:40:00
    NASA announced plans last week to send a new telescopic camera to the International Space Station to give developing countries critical new environmental data on forest fires, floods, volcanoes, droughts, hurricanes and landslides in Central America, Africa and Asia. ISERV...

  • I see icy ISS ice floes

    Updated: 2012-04-23 14:00:55
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS American Airlines to air dangerous antivax propaganda UPDATE : partial Complete success with American Airlines I see icy ISS ice floes I’ve been writing so many explanations about cool pictures from space that I think I’ll take a short break and just simply post this astonishingly beautiful shot taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station , showing the curling and delicate-appearing ice floes in the ocean off the east coast of Kamchatka , swirling as they drift due to the eddy currents and : wind Click to enthalpinate . Our planet is pretty lovely , even in

  • Progress M-015M docks with International Space Station

    Updated: 2012-04-23 09:46:10
    At 1420 GMT on 22 April 2012 the Russian cargo Progress M-015M spacecraft docked automatically to the nternational Space Station's ocking Compartment-1 (DC-1) Pirs nadir port, recently vacated by Progress M-014M.

  • Weekend Feature: A 3-D Journey Through the Observable Universe

    Updated: 2012-04-21 14:25:00
    The Known Universe from AMNH on Vimeo.

  • Envisat - hope remains to regain contact

    Updated: 2012-04-20 17:38:04
    FlightGlobal.com Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries India to test GSLV Mk III late 2012 Saturn V F-1 engine may power SLS boosters : they might be better for core as well Galileo takes next step India conducts maiden launch of Agni 5 missile Russia ready to try again with Phobos-Grunt North Korea's Uhna-3 launch failure due to Max Q structural collapse Nozette receives 13 year jail sentence for space spying Japan and UK agree to further ties on space technology UK Government gives 6 million grant funding for UK Space technology projects First Orbit film showing in 30 languages at British Interplanetary Society Recent Comments Galleria Corporate Center Ortigas commented

  • India to test GSLV Mk III late 2012

    Updated: 2012-04-20 14:09:36
    FlightGlobal.com Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries India to test GSLV Mk III late 2012 Saturn V F-1 engine may power SLS boosters : they might be better for core as well Galileo takes next step India conducts maiden launch of Agni 5 missile Russia ready to try again with Phobos-Grunt North Korea's Uhna-3 launch failure due to Max Q structural collapse Nozette receives 13 year jail sentence for space spying Japan and UK agree to further ties on space technology UK Government gives 6 million grant funding for UK Space technology projects First Orbit film showing in 30 languages at British Interplanetary Society Recent Comments Galleria Corporate Center Ortigas commented

  • Saturn V F-1 engine may power SLS boosters: they might be better for core as well

    Updated: 2012-04-20 08:27:42
    : FlightGlobal.com Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries Saturn V F-1 engine may power SLS boosters : they might be better for core as well Galileo takes next step India conducts maiden launch of Agni 5 missile Russia ready to try again with Phobos-Grunt North Korea's Uhna-3 launch failure due to Max Q structural collapse Nozette receives 13 year jail sentence for space spying Japan and UK agree to further ties on space technology UK Government gives 6 million grant funding for UK Space technology projects First Orbit film showing in 30 languages at British Interplanetary Society Envisat has telemetry interruption Recent Comments Galleria Corporate Center Ortigas commented

  • Rain on the Sun

    Updated: 2012-04-19 19:16:10
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Interview on The Alyona Show about our future in space Desktop Project Part 26 : Carina will keelhaul your brain Rain on the Sun After I posted the video of the solar eruption earlier this week , I got a lot of questions about why material fell back from the explosion onto the Sun . The quick answer : gravity A lot of the material from a prominence like that falls back onto the Sun because of the Sun’s strong gravity . Since the material is an ionized plasma a gas stripped of one or more electrons it follows the magnetic field lines of the Sun , so you can see graceful arcs of

  • Galileo takes next step

    Updated: 2012-04-19 17:02:00
    FlightGlobal.com Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries India conducts maiden launch of Agni 5 missile Russia ready to try again with Phobos-Grunt North Korea's Uhna-3 launch failure due to Max Q structural collapse Nozette receives 13 year jail sentence for space spying Japan and UK agree to further ties on space technology UK Government gives 6 million grant funding for UK Space technology projects First Orbit film showing in 30 languages at British Interplanetary Society Envisat has telemetry interruption SpaceX's new spaceport World awaits North Korean satellite launch attempt Recent Comments Galleria Corporate Center Ortigas commented on First Russian Met Sat Re-enters

  • India conducts maiden launch of Agni 5 missile

    Updated: 2012-04-19 11:52:34
    FlightGlobal.com Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries India conducts maiden launch of Agni 5 missile Russia ready to try again with Phobos-Grunt North Korea's Uhna-3 launch failure due to Max Q structural collapse Nozette receives 13 year jail sentence for space spying Japan and UK agree to further ties on space technology UK Government gives 6 million grant funding for UK Space technology projects First Orbit film showing in 30 languages at British Interplanetary Society Envisat has telemetry interruption SpaceX's new spaceport World awaits North Korean satellite launch attempt Recent Comments Galleria Corporate Center Ortigas commented on First Russian Met Sat Re-enters

  • Russia ready to try again with Phobos-Grunt

    Updated: 2012-04-18 15:14:13
    Reports in the Russian Novosti Kosmonavtiki website state that the Russian Federal Space Agency is willing to go ahead with Phobos-Grunt 2 after the failure of the original Phobos-Grunt spacecraft in November 2011. The mission will be included in future plans but no date for the launch has yet been set. The original mission was intended to fly to the Martian Moon Phobos, collect some soil samples and return them to Earth.  

  • North Korea's Uhna-3 launch failure due to "Max Q structural collapse"

    Updated: 2012-04-18 14:13:06
    FlightGlobal.com Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries Russia ready to try again with Phobos-Grunt North Korea's Uhna-3 launch failure due to Max Q structural collapse Nozette receives 13 year jail sentence for space spying Japan and UK agree to further ties on space technology UK Government gives 6 million grant funding for UK Space technology projects First Orbit film showing in 30 languages at British Interplanetary Society Envisat has telemetry interruption SpaceX's new spaceport World awaits North Korean satellite launch attempt Ariane 5 ME launch video animation worth a look Recent Comments World Clock commented on A SECOND CHANCE FOR EXPRESS AM-4 A SECOND C Benjamin

  • Nozette receives 13 year jail sentence for space spying

    Updated: 2012-04-18 11:07:35
    In late March, the US space scientist Stewart Nozette who had previously worked on NASA projects, as awarded a 13 years ail sentence after admitting that he tried to sell space technology ecrets during sting operation FBI sting operation in 2009. Nozette believed the FBI undercover men were working for Israel. nbsp;

  • Space Access 2012 Thoughts

    Updated: 2012-04-17 06:57:51
    I’m still in the process of recuperating from Space Access and the long drive home from Phoenix, but I wanted to give a few thoughts on this year’s conference.  I’ve now been going to Space Access for a full decade (other than 2009, when Tiff was within a week of her due-date for Peter), so [...]

  • Random Pictures from my Camera

    Updated: 2012-04-16 19:03:43
    I’ve been taking pictures with my cellphone camera, but a weird error on WordPress had been preventing me from uploading the pictures until now. So, these pictures range from the start of last year till now, but I figured I’d put a few up. I’m not a good photographer, and my cellphone camera isn’t particularly [...]

  • QOTD: Entrepreneurship Version

    Updated: 2012-04-04 18:37:22
    It takes slightly crazy people to make big changes. These same people generally have tough lives. It’s a lifestyle choice. –Iain McClatchie (who runs the  Ambivalent Engineer blog)

  • Today's Hot Tech News Video from IDG--Top Right of Page

    Updated: 2012-04-02 08:35:21
    Today's hot tech news from IDG News Service (publishers of PC World, MacWorld, and Computerworld). 'The Daily Galaxy' content on the discoveries, people and events changing our planet and our knowledge of the Universe is brought to you daily by...

  • Flexible, paper-based supercapacitor could improve performance of hybrid electric vehicles

    Updated: 2012-03-20 19:40:02
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists know that using supercapacitors in conjunction with batteries could greatly increase the fuel economy of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) due to the fact that supercapacitors can recover and supply energy much more quickly than batteries. This ability, for example, allows a supercapacitor to recover all of the energy during hard braking, while a battery would allow the energy to be wasted in frictional braking due to its inability to quickly harvest energy.

  • Off Topic Political Writing

    Updated: 2012-03-14 10:03:22
    guest blogger john hare Since finding out it was a bad idea to blog technical on space hardware ideas, I haven’t been writing at all. I listen to a variety of talk shows on the truck radio in dribs and drabs at work and found that listening to people talk trash that I couldn’t respond [...]

  • Rational design can improve hydrogen fuel cell efficiency

    Updated: 2012-02-29 16:40:01
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen fuel cells, in which the chemical energy of hydrogen is converted into electricity, offer the potential for a wide variety of applications, especially in transportation and power generation. Although hydrogen fuel cells are currently used on a small scale, making them commercially available for large-scale use requires improvements in two key areas: efficiency and cost-effectiveness. In a new study, scientists have designed tri-metallic electrocatalysts for hydrogen fuel cells that theoretically improve in both areas, outperforming the best platinum-based catalysts to date.

  • New Link: EconLog

    Updated: 2012-02-10 03:34:28
    I just realized I didn’t have a link in my blogroll to the excellent EconLog blog, run by economists Arnold Kling, Bryan Caplan, and David Henderson. Like most engineers, I don’t let the lack of much economic training get in the way of good economic philosophizing/debating, but I’ve learned a lot from their takes on [...]

  • Letter to the Editor

    Updated: 2012-02-10 03:21:05
    [Note: Here's a letter to the editor that I sent in to a local Colorado paper a few days ago, which didn't get published. Not that most of this should be too surprising to regular readers, but I figured it was worth putting something new on the blog. Also, some apologies on the terseness, I [...]

  • Conundrum

    Updated: 2012-01-23 19:52:01
    Whenever I’m stuck in proposal writing hell, I tend to come up with all sorts of fun ideas for blog posts. But my inner adult likes reminding me “if you have the mental bandwidth to be doing creative writing, you should be getting those proposals written so you can get Altius more money, not having [...]

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