Archive for the 'Space' Category
And Now… United Nations to Appoint Earth Contact for Aliens
September 27th, 2010Update: Hoax? Via: Guardian: The Royal Society knew nothing about it. The United Nations referred all queries to the switchboard of Unoosa in Vienna. Its switchboard number wasn’t much help. “The person at extension 4951 is unavailable, please leave your message after the tone,” it said. Those messages might make for some interesting listening today. […]
U.S. Military’s Top Secret X-37B Shuttle ‘Disappears’ for Two Weeks, Changes Orbit
August 25th, 2010Realtime track of X-37B. Via: news.com.au: AMATEUR astronomers are enjoying a cat-and-mouse game with the US military in keeping track of its secret space plane, the X-37B. The X-37B was launched in April amid much publicity, but scant detail about its true use. Built by Boeing’s Phantom Works division, the X-37B program was originally headed […]
Copenhagen Suborbitals
August 22nd, 2010Homebrew submarine: Check Homebrew rocket: Check Homebrew sealaunch platform: Check The countdown is running on the test flight: The micro spacecraft (MSC) Tycho Brahe-1 is the payload of the HEAT booster. It is a pressurized volume providing support for one upright standing/half-sitting person, with a full view through a polymer plexiglas-dome to experience the entire […]
Exploding H-Bombs In Space
July 3rd, 2010Via: NPR: Back in the summer of 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in outer space, some 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. It was a weapons test, but one that created a man-made light show that has never been equaled — and hopefully never will.
The Secret X-37B Space Plane: Now Tracked in Real Time
June 27th, 2010Thanks to the good and dear freaks at n2yo.com.
Ted Molczan on Recently Launched Unmanned Spacecraft
May 23rd, 2010Readers of Blank Spots on the Map by Trevor Paglen will definitely remember Ted Molczan. Via: New York Times: The secretive flight, civilian specialists said in recent weeks, probably centers at least partly on testing powerful sensors for a new generation of spy satellites. Now, the amateur sky watchers have succeeded in tracking the stealthy […]
Stephen Hawking: Extraterrestrials Are Almost Certain to Exist; If We Encounter Them, Chances Are We’re Doomed
April 25th, 2010If Martians fell from the sky What would that do to God? Would we put the weapon down Or aim it up at the sky No one would believe it Except the fucking nut jobs They’d laugh and cry “We told you so!” Dave Matthews Band — Time Bomb The mainstream media is, increasingly, driving […]
DARPA Tested Hypersonic Glider Related to Quick-Response Global Strike System, and Then Claims to Have Lost Contact with It
April 24th, 2010There has been a lot of coverage of the launch of the X-37b, but as the right hand was waving at us, did you notice what the left hand was up to? The same day, the U.S. launched a Minotaur rocket that reportedly carried a Hypersonic Test Vehicle, which is a test platform for the […]
NASA to Launch R2 Humanoid Robot to Join Space Station Crew
April 15th, 2010Via: NASA / YouTube: NASA will launch the first human-like robot to space later this year to become a permanent resident of the International Space Station. Robonaut 2, or R2, was developed jointly by NASA and General Motors under a cooperative agreement to develop a robotic assistant that can work alongside humans, whether they be […]
Unknown Budget, Unknown Purpose: U.S. Air Force Plans to Launch X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle
April 4th, 2010Blank Spots on the Map: And then there was Dan Vanderhorst, who “has been the lead pilot on seven classified aircraft to date.” In fact, according to his biography, “Vanderhorst has made his career in the cockpit of so many classified aircraft, there is not much that we can say about him, on the record,” […]
