Archive for the 'Space' Category
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spots Rocket Impact Site on Moon
July 1st, 2022Via: NASA: Astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision late last year. Impact occurred March 4, with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter later spotting the resulting crater. Surprisingly the crater is actually two craters, an eastern crater (18-meter diameter, about 19.5 yards) superimposed on a western crater (16-meter diameter, about 17.5 yards). The […]
Pentagon Explores Using SpaceX for Rocket-Deployed Quick Reaction Force
June 23rd, 2022Since 2019, I’ve been saying that Starlink is not what it seems. And now… Get it? “Starship.” Troopers. Via: The Intercept: The Pentagon envisions a future in which Elon Musk’s rockets might someday deploy a “quick reaction force” to thwart a future Benghazi-style attack, according to documents obtained by The Intercept via Freedom of Information […]
Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down
June 18th, 2022Via: Scientific American: This year NASA plans to begin turning off some of the Voyagers’ systems, eking out the spacecrafts’ remaining energy stores to extend their unprecedented journeys to about 2030. For the Voyagers’ scientists, many of whom have worked on the mission since its inception, it is a bittersweet time. They are now confronting […]
Amino Acids Found On An Asteroid in Space For The Very First Time
June 14th, 2022Via: Science Alert: For the first time, scientists have found the building blocks for life on an asteroid in space. Japanese researchers have discovered more than 20 amino acids on the space rock Ryugu, which is more than 200 million miles (320 million kilometers) from Earth. Scientists made the first-of-its-kind detection by studying samples retrieved […]
Chinese Scientists Develop Plan to Destroy Starlink Satellites
May 26th, 2022Via: Newsweek: A team of Chinese researchers has reportedly published a study calling for anti-satellite capabilities that could disable Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites if deemed necessary. The study was led by Ren Yuanzhen, a researcher with the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications, and co-authored by scientists within China’s defense industry according to the South […]
Congressional Hearing on UFOs
May 17th, 2022This is a huge waste of time, but possibly useful as #comedygold. Via: cnet:
Musk Tweets, “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya”
May 9th, 2022If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2022 The word “Nazi” doesn’t mean what he seems to think it does pic.twitter.com/pk9SQhBOsG — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2022
Power Beam Energy Test, Zap Energy to Troops from Space
April 23rd, 2022Via: Study Finds: Could soldiers in the future receive the power for their equipment from space? A team of researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have demonstrated the feasibility of terrestrial microwave power beaming by transmitting 1.6 kilowatts of power over one kilometer (km). The achievement, by a team at the U.S. Army […]
Astronomers Just Discovered the Farthest Object in the Known Universe
April 9th, 2022Via: LiveScience: A possible galaxy that exists some 13.5 billion light-years from Earth has broken the record for farthest astronomical object ever seen.
Large Cyberattack on Viasat
March 23rd, 2022Via: Wired: Almost a month after the attack, the disruptions continue. Thousands still remain offline across Europe—around 2,000 wind turbines are still disconnected in Germany—and companies are racing to replace broken modems or fix connections with updates. Multiple intelligence agencies, including those in the US and Europe, are also investigating the attack. The Viasat hack […]
