The axiom that what goes up, must come down doesn’t apply to most places in the universe, which are largely empty space. For most places in the universe, what goes up, just goes up. On Earth, the tendency of upwardly-mobile objects to reverse course in mid-flight and return to the surface is, to say the least, remarkable.(...)Read [...]
: Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Orion Propulsion Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR Next Generation Exploration Conf NASA Ames , CA April 5-8, 2010 Space Access 010 Phoenix AZ April 8-10, 2010 NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Briefs : ATK rails Indian space boost Sprague Astronautics Some miscellaneous items late in the wee : hours ATK moves into desperate , say-anything mode : Charlie Precourt : ATKs astronaut fights Obama space plan The Write Stuff Orlando Sentinel BTW : It's funny how how all these firms , Constellation contractors and start-ups alike , all have an ex-astronaut or two on board and , like hired knights , joust in opposite directions . Ex-astronauts outside of either sort of company also line up on opposite sides . Indicates that people should make up their minds according to the facts and rational arguments ,Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Orion Propulsion Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR Next Generation Exploration Conf NASA Ames , CA April 5-8, 2010 Space Access 010 Phoenix AZ April 8-10, 2010 NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Briefs Falcon 9 pad webcam Some thermal cork debonding When the Falcon 9 vehicle is at the pad and you are curious as to what is happening there , you can view the pad via this webcam This afternoon I saw that the vehicle had been lowered back to . horizontal A reader noticed earlier today that something was flaking off the first stage booster and assumed it was paint . I thought maybe it was just ice but a video see the post at forum.nasaspaceflight.com showed that it clearly was not ice . Turns out that it was some cork thermal protection added to aid in the recovery of the first stage . Stephen Clark saysSkip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Orion Propulsion Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR Next Generation Exploration Conf NASA Ames , CA April 5-8, 2010 Space Access 010 Phoenix AZ April 8-10, 2010 NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card SpaceUp event The SpaceUp unconference definition has been happeninig in San Diego on Saturday and will continue on Sunday . Lots of Twitter notes are being posted to twitter.com search q= 23spaceup Spacevidcast is also webcasting live from the event . Free video chat by Ustream Posted 02 28 10 00:29:44 by TopSpacer Filed under : Events Comments No comments yet Add Comment Note : HTML code will not work except for bare URLs i.e . http : www . Also , for postings older than 1 week , comments are filtered manually to prevent spam and so may not appear for a few . days Note : Trash talking and name calling ,
The National Space Society is greatly saddened by the news that renowned space artist and long time advocate for human space exploration and settlement, Robert McCall, passed away February 26 at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital Osborne in his home town of Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 90 years old.
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No, it's not the Universe Puzzle No. 3; rather, it's an intriguing result from recent work into the strange shapes and composition of small asteroids.
Images sent back from space missions suggest that smaller asteroids are not pristine chunks of rock, but are instead covered in rubble that ranges in size from meter-sized boulders to flour-like [...]Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Orion Propulsion Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR Next Generation Exploration Conf NASA Ames , CA April 5-8, 2010 Space Access 010 Phoenix AZ April 8-10, 2010 NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card A plane way to get the NASA plan through Congress When assessing the probability that Congress will eventually accept most of the administration's new plan for NASA , especially the cancellation of Constellation , it might help to compare the reaction it has gotten so far to the reaction that the Obama administration got last year to another radical proposal the ending of production of the F-22 The following sampling of articles shows that the uproar was even louder and involved a far greater number of angry : Congresspersons Senators urge Obama to keep F-22 production lines open GovExec.com Jan.21.09 In aLike everything about Constellation, shutting it down is going to be expensive: NASA Constellation moon program: NASA must figure out how to kill program - OrlandoSentinel.com.
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Jeff Foust reviews some NASA budget/policy commentary: Briefly noted: Rutans clarification; other criticism and praise - Space Politics.: Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Orion Propulsion Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR Next Generation Exploration Conf NASA Ames , CA April 5-8, 2010 Space Access 010 Phoenix AZ April 8-10, 2010 NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Briefs : Pongsat flight oppportunities Apollo 13 celebration John Powell of JP Aerospace has posted the following message about an opportunity for students to fly Pongsats on high altitude balloon missions in April : PongSat Flight Opportunity JP Aerospace Blog Feb.26.10 BTW , John was interviewed on the Space Show recently . The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation informs me that their are some VIP tickets left for the Apollo XIII 40th Anniversary event on April 9, 2010 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex : Only a handful of VIP ticket packages remain to the Astronaut Scholarship Foundations ApolloSkip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Orion Propulsion Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR Next Generation Exploration Conf NASA Ames , CA April 5-8, 2010 Space Access 010 Phoenix AZ April 8-10, 2010 NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Successful Falcon 9 rehearsal The Falcon 9 wet dress rehearsal on Friday went very well : Falcon Launch Report Falcon countdown dress rehearsal a great success Spaceflight Now I was given a message sent out within SpaceX by launch director Tim Buzza that said , From my years on Delta , Falcon 1 at VAFB and Kwaj this was by far the smoothest test we have conducted to date . For a brand new launch pad to interact with a brand new launch vehicle without any major anomalies was a pleasant surprise . The launch team both on the pad and in the Launch Control Center acted professionally and with confidenceSkip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Orion Propulsion Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR Next Generation Exploration Conf NASA Ames , CA April 5-8, 2010 Space Access 010 Phoenix AZ April 8-10, 2010 NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Elon Musk on CNBC A CNBC interview with Elon Musk about SpaceX and the commercial crew service for NASA : Visit msnbc.com for breaking news world news and news about the economy Posted 02 27 10 03:02:24 by TopSpacer Filed under : Transport Companies Comments The bit starting at about 2:30, with the reporter repeating what Musk apparently told her about capsule safety , is quite interesting : He says that this Dragon capsule has a safety mechanisms not seen on the Space Shuttle or even the Apollo missions , where it can escape , it has engines attached to the capsule tied into the main fuel tank , so itSkip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Orion Propulsion Rocket Racing Scaled Composites SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR Next Generation Exploration Conf NASA Ames , CA April 5-8, 2010 Space Access 010 Phoenix AZ April 8-10, 2010 NSS ISDC 2010 Chicago , IL May 27-31, 2010 New Space 2010 NASA Ames , CA July 23-25, 2010 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card A week of space policy confusion and bombast Alan Boyle reviews the past week''s events and developments regarding the administrations new NASA budget and policy direction : Sizing up the space races Cosmic Log msnbc.com Feb.26.10 After the noise dies away from the hearings on the NASA budget , the harsh reality of NASA's limited budget is going to sink in with Congress just as it did for the Augustine panel when they started to look at the numbers . Constellation just won't fit . You can't fly the ISS , keep all those Shuttle workers employed and proceed with Ares Orion . Shelby et al will try to saveThe latest episode of This Week in Space with Miles O'Brien, sponsored by Spaceflight Now, has been posted:
February 26, 2010: NASA officials broke ground near Canberra, Australia onWednesday, beginning a new antenna-building campaign to improve DeepSpace Network communications.Following the recommendations of an independent study, NASA embarkedon an ambitious project to replace its aging fleet of 70-meter-wide(230-foot-wide) dishes with a new generation of 34-meter (112-foot)antennas by 2025.The three 70-meter antennas, located at the NASA Deep Space Networkcomplexes at Goldst...
All the robotic missions to various points in our solar system wouldn't be possible if not for the Deep Space Network. It's not just sending commands and receiving data, but also orbit determination, or keeping track of where the spacecraft are with radiometric tracking data so that spacecraft navigators can get probes exactly where the [...]
Remember the "long duration underwear" tested out by Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata on board the ISS last year? Now you can buy your very own. The specially designed undies and other clothing called “J-ware” are on sale now for 10,500 yen or about $115 USD. J-ware is treated with antibacterial and deodorizing [...]
One of the most surprising results from the Stardust mission – which returned comet dust samples to Earth in 2006 – is that comets don't just consist of particles from the icy parts of the outer solar system, which was the common assumption, but also includes sooty dust from the hot, inner region close to [...]
The Cassini mission keeps churning out the hits, and here's a collection of some of the latest stunning images released by the CICLOPS (Cassini Imaging for Central Operations) team. Above, the small moon Janus is almost hidden between the planet's rings and the larger moon Rhea. The northern part of Janus can be [...]
Yesterday, NASA's Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor, in Utah. Look to see the words "final" and "last" frequently over the next few months in regards to the space shuttle. "There is a whole series of lasts coming up," said space shuttle launch director [...]
You can now find the answer to this week's Where In The Universe challenge, back on the original post. Thanks to UT reader Rob Bowman for submitting this week's image. Check back next week for another test of your visual knowledge of the cosmos!
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In case you missed any of them, here are some space book reviews recently added to the NSS website book review section:
The New Space Race: China vs. the United States, By Erik Seedhouse. The “race” with China for the dominance of space is more subtle than the old US-Soviet race. Reviewed by Ted Spitzmiller.
Krafft Ehricke’s [...]
WASP-12b, discovered in 2008, is a real outlier among the 400 or so exoplanets discovered to date. Not that it's particularly massive (it's a gas giant, not unlike Jupiter), nor that its homesun (host star) is particularly unusual (it's rather similar to our own Sun), but it orbits very close to its homesun, and is [...]
While the Obama commercial space policy is the news, SpaceX continues to move forward toward the initial launch of its Falcon 9 rocket within the next 1 to 3 months. The latest milestone was getting the rocket vertical on the pad.
In December 2008, NASA announced the selection of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle and [...]
For Goldilocks, the porridge had to be not too hot, and not too cold … the right temperature was all she needed.
For an Earth-like planet to harbor life, or multicellular life, certainly temperature is important, but what else is important? And what makes the temperature of an exo-Earth "just right"?
Some recent studies have concluded that [...]
Two objects reportedly crashed to the ground near Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia on Feb. 19, 2010. The first object, according to the report on the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness database, weighed 10 kg, while the second larger object weighed approximately 2 tons. Other than that, there's not a lot of [...]
Its time for another “Where In The Universe” challenge, and this one is actually on time this week! The WITU challenge will test your visual knowledge of the cosmos, and this week's image was submitted by UT reader Rob Bowman. Rob is hoping to stump everyone this week, but try to guess/name [...]
Sun-worshiper alert! Now you can have the chance to help scientists spot and track solar storms and be involved in the latest solar research. The 'hottest' new Citizen Science project from the "Zooniverse" is Solar Storm Watch. Volunteers can spot storms and track their progress as they hurtle across space towards [...]
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Apologies everyone! I have just posted the answer to last week's Where In The Universe challenge, which you can find back at the original post. I vow to be more punctual from now on! So, look for a new WITU Challenge for this week, coming soon!
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This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Ian Musgrave over at Astroblog.
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Newly released images from last November's close flyby over Saturn's icy moon Enceladus the Cassini spacecraft reveal geyser jets spraying all along the prominent fractures, or "tiger stripes" that cross the moon's south polar region. Additionally, a new detailed temperature map of one fracture reveals warmer temperatures than what was expected. "Enceladus continues [...]
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Remarks by NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver
13th Annual FAA AST Space Transportation Conference
February 11, 2010
Days after release of the President’s 2011 budget, I am excited to continue to share information about our Nation’s bold new direction for human space flight. We plan to transform our relationship with the private sector as part of our Nation’s [...]
: : skip to main skip to sidebar SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY HISTORY SPACE AND OTHER SPECULATIONS Rocketpunk Manifesto Days of Future Past Sunday , February 7, 2010 Pluto's Revenge : A Dish Best Served Cold Pluto may have been stripped of its full planetary epaulettes , but not of its ability to deliver surprises , and new' images from the Hubble delivered one . Commenter Ferrard Carson alluded to this in a comment to the last post . Pluto is undergoing seasonal changes on its surface and with startling abruptness , considering that Plutonian seasons are about 62 years long . UV light from the Sun breaks up methane ice , leaving a dark sludgy stuff called . tholin The methane ice and tholin put me in mind of Pluto in Heinlein's Have Spacesuit , Will . Travel New' is in scare quotes because the Hubble imagery was obtained in 2002-2003, but it has taken until now to process the information far below the nominal resolution even of the Hubble to tease out the information . The level of detail they were able to recover , as a rather charming aside , is comparable to our naked eye view of the full moon . Evidence of surface changes comes from earlier Hubble imagery dating back to 1994. So
So I’m working on the ISEC Press Kit. We’re getting ready to announce our Pearson and Artsutanov prizes next week and I’m thinking (hoping) that we’ll get some flurry of activity at the ISEC web site. We want to have some documents on the website readily available to the Press so that when they report [...]