Archive for the 'Space' Category
White House Approves Costly, New Spy Satellites
April 8th, 2009Via: Houston Chronicle: The Obama administration on Tuesday approved the purchase of pricey new spy satellites and will buy more commercial imagery from the private sector to plug immediate gaps in satellite coverage. … Defense giant Lockheed Martin, of Bethesda, Md., is almost certain to win the secret multibillion-dollar contract for the two new high-altitude […]
Space Storm Alert: 90 Seconds from Catastrophe
March 27th, 2009Via: New Scientist: It sounds ridiculous. Surely the sun couldn’t create so profound a disaster on Earth. Yet an extraordinary report funded by NASA and issued by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in January this year claims it could do just that. Over the last few decades, western civilisations have busily sown the […]
Russian General Says U.S. May Have Planned Satellite Collision
March 4th, 2009Via: RIA Novosti: A collision between U.S. and Russian satellites in early February may have been a test of new U.S. technology to intercept and destroy satellites rather than an accident, a Russian military expert has said. According to official reports, one of 66 satellites owned by Iridium, a U.S. telecoms company, and the Russian […]
Orbital Collision: Please Pick Up the Nearest Black Courtesy Phone
February 12th, 2009So, an Iridium satellite just happened to collide with a defunct Russian military satellite… You’re about to learn how the sausage gets made, and, before we begin, you should know that it’s not pretty. I don’t know the whole story about Iridium, but it has got to be one of the spookiest tales of them […]
China Fakes Reports from Space
September 27th, 2008Via: Telegraph: China’s state news agency published a despatch from the country’s three latest astronauts describing their first night in space before they had even left Earth. The Xinhua agency, which has sometimes been accused of carrying state propaganda, took down the story and blamed it on a “technical error”. The article described the Shenzhou […]
And Now: White House Briefed On Potential For Mars Life
August 3rd, 2008UPDATE: Toxin in Soil May Mean No Life on Mars I’ll comment a bit more on this: If you know what a galaxy is, and know that there are over 100 billion of them in the universe, you’d just about have to assume that there’s lots of life out there. The UFO/alien issue, however, has […]
U.S. Astronaut, Edgar Mitchell: Aliens Exist, “It’s Been Well Covered Up by All Our Governments”
July 24th, 2008I make a point of NOT covering the UFO stuff on Cryptogon, but this is VERY remarkable story. Edgar Mitchell not only walked on the moon, he has a PhD (technically, a Doctor of Science) in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. In other words, this is not your typical speaker at some weekend UFO symposium. […]
U.S. to Try to Shoot Down Spy Satellite
February 15th, 2008Remember how the Magic Anchor took out those undersea fiber optic cables recently, and how the network operators re-routed some of the traffic; satellite links played a key role. In strategic information warfare, decapitation means taking out not only the primary links, but the backup ones as well. I’d imagine that .mil would have had […]
The Final Frontier for Solar Energy: An Absurd Boondoggle in Space
December 12th, 2007Scientists in the U.S., Europe and Japan want to build a massive solar concentrator in space to beam gigawatts of power down to the surface of the planet. (The idea has been around, on paper, for years.) Clean, green power, They say. Absurd? Maybe not, if we consider some of the cast of characters, and […]
U.S. to Expand Domestic Use of Spy Satellites
August 16th, 2007Pigs in Spaaaaaaaaaaace… Via: Wall Street Journal: The U.S.’s top intelligence official has greatly expanded the range of federal and local authorities who can get access to information from the nation’s vast network of spy satellites in the U.S. The decision, made three months ago by Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, places for the […]
