Archive for the 'Space' Category
Unmanned U.S. Air Force Space Plane Lands After Secret, Two-Year Mission
May 7th, 2017Via: Reuters: The U.S. military’s experimental X-37B space plane landed on Sunday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two years, the Air Force said. The unmanned X-37B, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, touched down at 7:47 a.m. EDT (1147 GMT) on a runway formerly used for […]
SpaceX Successfully Launches, Lands Recycled Falcon 9 Rocket
March 30th, 2017Via: NBC: SpaceX successfully launched and landed a recycled rocket on Thursday, a first for Elon Musk’s company and a move that could help slash the cost of cargo transport into space. It was a one-two punch that went according to plan. After lifting off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and carrying an SES-10 […]
‘Wright Brothers Moment for Space’
March 24th, 2017Via: Bloomberg: If the rocket Elon Musk’s SpaceX expects to launch next week looks familiar, that’s because it is. The Falcon 9 rocket slated to take off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, has flown before, marking the first time Space Exploration Technologies Corp. will refly one of the 14-story-tall boosters it recovered […]
SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon in 2018
February 27th, 2017Via: space.com: SpaceX will fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon in 2018, the company’s founder Elon Musk announced Monday (Feb. 27). The private spaceflight company will use its Falcon Heavy rocket to send the two paying passengers into space aboard one of the company’s Dragon spacecraft. The two private citizens, who […]
SpaceX Plans Worldwide Satellite Internet with Low Latency, Gigabit Speed
November 17th, 2016Anyone remember Teledesic? Via: Ars Technica: SpaceX has detailed ambitious plans to bring fast Internet access to the entire world with a new satellite system that offers greater speeds and lower latency than existing satellite networks. The private spacecraft company founded by CEO Elon Musk filed an application Tuesday for satellite space station authorizations with […]
Hubble Reveals Observable Universe Contains 10 Times More Galaxies Than Previously Thought
October 13th, 2016Via: NASA: The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. Astronomers came to the surprising conclusion that there are at least 10 times more galaxies in the observable universe than previously thought. … In analyzing the data, a […]
“Scientists Plan to Create ‘Asgardia’ Nation State in Space”
October 13th, 2016Via: BBC: A group of scientists is launching what they say will be a new pacifist nation-state in space. Asgardia “will become a place in orbit which is truly ‘no man’s land’,” its website says. The new “nation” aims to launch its first satellite late next year and hopes to one day be recognised by […]
Air Force’s X-37B Space Plane Mystery Mission Wings by 500 Days in Orbit
October 11th, 2016Via: Space: The latest secretive mission of the United States Air Force’s X-37B space plane has cruised beyond 500 days in Earth orbit since its launch last year. The U.S. military launched the robotic X-37B space plane on May 20, 2015, marking the fourth flight for the Air Force program. A United Launch Alliance Atlas […]
Sabotage Speculation Gathers Around SpaceX Explosion
October 3rd, 2016Via: CNBC: Rumors of potential sabotage are gathering around the investigation of the explosion during a recent SpaceX launch test. SpaceX has been investigating the early September failure of a Falcon 9 rocket that caught fire and exploded on a Cape Canaveral launch pad just days before it was scheduled to launch. The Washington Post […]
Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition
October 1st, 2016Via: Space: In 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft that would venture far out into deep space, each carrying a golden record with a message from Earth for any aliens the vessels might encounter. Now, for the first time ever, that record will be available to people on Earth. A new Kickstarter campaign is making copies […]
