Space Fellowship: PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. The asteroid safely will safely fly past our planet slightly closer than the moon's orbit on Nov. 8. The last time a space rock this large came as close to Earth was in 1976, although astronomers did not know about the flyby at the time. The next known approach of an asteroid this size will be in 2028. The image was taken on Nov. 7 at 11: [...]
A hearing on NASA's planetary exploration program by the House Science, Space and Technology Committee is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov.15th: House Committee to Look at Future of Planetary Exploration - spacepolicyonline.com.
Witnesses include "Jim Green, director of the planetary sciences division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and Steve Squyres, chair of the National Research Council's recent decadal survey on planetary science".The launch of the Russian Phobos-Grunt sample-return mission to the Mars moon is set for 2016 GMT (3:16 p.m. EST) Tuesday at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan:
/-- To Mars and Back Again - IEEE Spectrum.
/-- Photos: Mars probe on the launch pad - Spaceflight Now
/-- Spaceflight Now | Live Video
The launch also includes the piggybacking Yinghuo-1 spacecraft, Chinas first Mars orbiter.The one thing most everybody agrees about with regard to the Space Shuttle program is that it failed by factors of 10 to achieve the original goal of lowering the cost of access to space. Yet somehow, using Shuttle hardware is going to help the SLS program achieve "affordability and sustainability": Heritage Hardware Key To NASA Heavy-Lifter - Aviation Week.Derek Nye has posted a big collection of engine firing test videos from Armadillo, SpaceX and XCOR: A Collection Of Rockets - Moonandback.The 400 meter wide asteroid 2005 YU55 will fly by earth on Tuesday:
/-- Your guide to the asteroid encounter - Cosmic Log
/-- NASA Captures New Images of Large Asteroid Passing Earth - NASA
/-- NASA - Asteroid 2005 YU55 Approaches Close Earth Flyby
Astrobiologists have discovered regions in our galaxy which might have the greatest potential for producing very complex organic molecules, the starting point for the development of life. We’ve heard before about “follow the water” in the search for life; in this case it may be “follow the methanol”… (...)Read the rest of ‘Sweet Spots’ for [...]
After an absence of almost two decades, Russia is at last on the cusp of resuming an ambitious agenda of interplanetary science missions on Tuesday Nov. 8 (Nov. 9. Moscow Time) by taking aim at Mars and scooping up the first ever soil and rocks gathered from the mysterious moon Phobos. Russia’s space program was [...]
NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, California has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 as it begins its close pass by Earth. The image above was taken on Nov. 7 at 11:45 a.m. PST (2:45 p.m. EST/1945 UTC), when the asteroid was approximately 1.38 million kilometers (860,000 miles) or about 3.6 lunar [...]: Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 11 Space Access 11 SFF NewSpace 11 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR Int . Symposium on Personal Commercial Spaceflight Las Cruces , NM Oct 19-20, 2011 Space Vision 2011 Univ . of Colorado Boulder Colorado Oct 27-30, 2011 Women Mars Conf George Washington Univ Washington , . D.C Nov . 9-10, 2011 FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conf Washington . D.C Feb . 15-16, 2012 Next-Gen Suborbital Researchers Conf NASA Ames Mountain View , CA Feb . 27-29, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpaceSkip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 11 Space Access 11 SFF NewSpace 11 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR Int . Symposium on Personal Commercial Spaceflight Las Cruces , NM Oct 19-20, 2011 Space Vision 2011 Univ . of Colorado Boulder Colorado Oct 27-30, 2011 Women Mars Conf George Washington Univ Washington , . D.C Nov . 9-10, 2011 FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conf Washington . D.C Feb . 15-16, 2012 Next-Gen Suborbital Researchers Conf NASA Ames Mountain View , CA Feb . 27-29, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpaceVia Transterrestrial Musings comes word that XCOR will display a full scale mock up of their Lynx suborbital vehicle at the Spacecraft Technology Expo in LA next may. The event will include a Human Spaceflight Park exhibit section. : Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 11 Space Access 11 SFF NewSpace 11 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR Int . Symposium on Personal Commercial Spaceflight Las Cruces , NM Oct 19-20, 2011 Space Vision 2011 Univ . of Colorado Boulder Colorado Oct 27-30, 2011 Women Mars Conf George Washington Univ Washington , . D.C Nov . 9-10, 2011 FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conf Washington . D.C Feb . 15-16, 2012 Next-Gen Suborbital Researchers Conf NASA Ames Mountain View , CA Feb . 27-29, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpaceSkip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 11 Space Access 11 SFF NewSpace 11 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR Int . Symposium on Personal Commercial Spaceflight Las Cruces , NM Oct 19-20, 2011 Space Vision 2011 Univ . of Colorado Boulder Colorado Oct 27-30, 2011 Women Mars Conf George Washington Univ Washington , . D.C Nov . 9-10, 2011 FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conf Washington . D.C Feb . 15-16, 2012 Next-Gen Suborbital Researchers Conf NASA Ames Mountain View , CA Feb . 27-29, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard November 06, 2011 Carnival of Space 222 1. Discovery Space News by Ian O'Neill Those pesky physicists are at it again they want to build a laser so powerful that it will literally rip spacetime . apart The lasers planned by the Extreme Light Infrastructure Ultra-High Field Facility , known as ELI , would concentrate 200 petawatts of power that's 100,000 times the world's power production and fire it at a single point for less than a trillionth of a . second The combined power of 10 separate lasers would be focused down to a very small volume , creating conditions more extreme than in the center of our sun . It is hoped yes , hoped that this immense energy will punch a hole through the fabric of spacetime itself , heralding a
In less than 48 hours, Russia’s bold Phobos-Grunt mechanized probe will embark on a historic flight to haul humanities first ever soil samples back from the tiny Martian moon Phobos. Liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome remains on target for November 9 (Nov 8 US EDT). For an exquisite view of every step of this first-of-its-kind [...]
It’s already been stated several times here on Universe Today that 2005 YU55, a 400-meter-wide roughly spherical asteroid, will not pose any threat to Earth as it passes by on Tuesday, November 8… even though it will come within 80% of the distance to the Moon. Many experts have come forward to state this fact, [...]
Last week I posted a picture of the fiery re-entry of a Progress re-supply ship as seen by Mike Fossum on board the space station. It was one of several pictures he took, and via Universe Today is a video of the descent of the spacecraft! Holy wow! You can see the trail of plasma [...]
Our solar system is a fantastically bizarre place. There are worlds as varied as our imagination can grasp — in fact, they exhibit features we never imagined before we saw them up close. Storms larger than planets, moons with undersurface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that occasionally swap places… … and that’s just at Saturn. [...]
Yesterday, October 30, 2011, the Russian space agency Roscosmos successfully launched a new Progress spacecraft on a Soyuz rocket, the same kind of rocket that failed in August and caused such worry. This means it looks like the Russians have indeed figured out what went wrong in the previous launch and fixed the issue. I’ll [...]
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has issued a grant to John Mankins of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions for a study of space solar power. SPS-ALPHA (Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large Phased Array) is a novel, bio-mimetic approach to the challenge of space solar power. If successful, this project will make possible the [...]