We’ve seen stunning footage of NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis and its possible successor, the SpaceX Falcon 9, blasting off into Earth orbit. Now NASA is providing a video perspective of the decent stage shuttle booster rockets take on their voyage back to Earth after separating from the main fuel tank. The video has its dull [...]
We’ve been huge proponents of both long term and redundant data backup solutions, but nothing to the extent being considered by the European Space Agency. At a conference last month, Europe’s version of NASA considered creating a “Doomsday Ark” on the Moon as a hedge against some cataclysmic eventuality like nuclear war or other extinction [...]
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1 Comment »A plane ticket to Cape Canaveral to watch one of the few remaining space shuttle launches is expensive. Watching the shuttle take flight from every conceivable angle on YouTube in high definition isn’t. Ever since NASA started outfitting the shuttle with cameras to record various external views during launch, amazing video-graphic views like this have become common. [...]
Our fascination with the Hubble Space Telescope will probably never die. For two decades now, it’s images have captured the imagination of a generation. In some ways, there is no better metaphor for humanity than the objects we send into space and what they represent. So for now, we’ll continue to marvel at Hubble’s achievements. So set aside ten minutes without interruption [...]
Posted in Science, Space, Technology Tags: Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, space, space exploration No Comments »If I was even a remotely sentimental person, I’d probably have a tear welling up in my eye while writing this. Today, NASA conducted what is effectively the final test burn of the reusable solid rocket boosters used to thrust the Space Shuttle into orbit. The test, carried out by ATK Launch Systems in [...]
Posted in Science, Space, Technology Tags: Final Space Shuttle flight, NASA, space, space exploration, Space Shuttle 2 Comments »The universe is big. It’s bigger than any human can possibly imagine. There isn’t really a frame of reference we can use to truly grasp its enormity. Every speck of light we see when looking at the night sky is a star contained within our own Milky Way galaxy. Beyond that exist billions of galaxies [...]
Posted in Science, Space, Technology Tags: Hubble Space Telescope, space, Ultra Deep Field 3D 1 Comment »Recently, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that it has partnered with several private Japanese companies to develop and deploy a network of solar panels in space. While this hopefully won’t turn out to be another space mirror, given the rise in humanity’s energy consumption it’s worth a try. Japan, having few domestic energy resources, [...]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Storage and Transmission, Science, Space, Technology Tags: JAXA, solar panels, space, space solar power system 2 Comments »
