High resolution video footage from the depths of space rarely finds an uninterested audience, especially when that audience consists of technology enthusiasts. NASA’s compilations of space shuttle launches and photos from the Hubble Space Telescope continue to capture our imaginations no matter how often they’re viewed. So when this amazing assemblage of imagery from NASA’s Cassini [...]
Posted in Science, Space, Technology 
Tags: Cassini, Hubble, NASA, Outside In, Saturn, space 
No Comments »Since the dawn of manned space flight more than 50 years ago, the most tense moment of any mission occurs while the spacecraft re-enters Earth’s atmosphere. Travelling at speeds exceeding 17,000mph during atmospheric re-entry, a spacecraft must dissipate the enormous amount of kinetic energy accumulated to achieve a stable orbit around the Earth. [...]
Posted in Military, Science, Space, Technology Tags: communications, NASA, plasma, radio communications, re-entry, space, space flight, spacecraft, SpaceX No Comments »We’ll miss the Space Shuttle when it finally enters retirement sometime next year. And although the private sector, namely Elon Musk’s SpaceX Corporation, seems poised to pick up where NASA and the shuttle program leave off, there’s something special about the enormity and complexity of NASA’s space transportation projects. The shuttle exemplifies this, and with [...]
Boeing’s “Phantom Ray” unmanned stealth aircraft will be an awesome addition to the military’s arsenal of modern warplanes. Having been formally revealed earlier this year, the Phantom Ray combines the very latest aviation technology into a platform “designed to support potential missions that may include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; suppression of enemy air defenses; electronic attack; strike; [...]
Posted in Military, Science, Space, Technology Tags: airplane, Boeing, Boeing 787, NASA, Phantom Ray, Phantom Works, Space Shuttle, stealth 1 Comment »
