Source: NASA PASADENA, Calif. — Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system’s population of potentially hazardous asteroids. The results reveal new information about their total numbers, origins and the possible dangers they may pose. Potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are a subset of [...]
Earth observation from orbital satellites is an important tool for numerous terrestrial activities. In this video, the evolution of agricultural regions in Saudi Arabia are examined using the observation satellite Landsat 5. Staff WritersMore Posts
On Tuesday May 15 the ISS managers issued permission for SpaceX Dragon capsule to approach and dock with the station at the beginning of the next week if the planned launch on Saturday morning is successful. A final flight readiness review confirmed that the improvements in the capsule’s software systems are working the right way [...]
In January 2010, Space Generation Advisory Council introduced a new working group on Space Safety and Sustainability, following successful projects in the fields of GNSS, Near Earth Objects, and Disaster Management. Comprising of a team of students and young professionals from both established and emerging space nations, the Space Safety and Sustainability (SSS) working group [...]
In February 2012, the Swiss Space Center at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) announced a project to clean up space debris, starting with Swiss cubesats Swisscube-1 and TIsat-1. In the video below, EPFL explains the dangers and challenges of space debris and how CleanSpace One may tackle the problem. Staff WritersMore Posts
On Tuesday May 15 the ISS managers issued permission for SpaceX Dragon capsule to approach and dock with the station at the beginning of the next week if the planned launch on Saturday morning is successful. A final flight readiness review confirmed that the improvements in the capsule’s software systems are working the right way [...]
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Source: NASA PASADENA, Calif. — Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system’s population of potentially hazardous asteroids. The results reveal new information about their total numbers, origins and the possible dangers they may pose. Potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are a subset of [...]
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Earth observation from orbital satellites is an important tool for numerous terrestrial activities. In this video, the evolution of agricultural regions in Saudi Arabia are examined using the observation satellite Landsat 5. Staff WritersMore Posts
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April 24, 2012 marked a milestone in human activities in outer space with the announcement by a group of entrepreneurs, engineers, and investors of the formation of Planetary Resources, Inc. The company, which features such investors as aerospace innovator Ross Perot, Jr. and filmmaker James Cameron, is being led by President and Chief Engineer Chris [...]
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Source: NASA PASADENA, Calif. — Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system’s population of potentially hazardous asteroids. The results reveal new information about their total numbers, origins and the possible dangers they may pose. Potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are a subset of [...]
Earth observation from orbital satellites is an important tool for numerous terrestrial activities. In this video, the evolution of agricultural regions in Saudi Arabia are examined using the observation satellite Landsat 5. Staff WritersMore Posts
On Tuesday May 15 the ISS managers issued permission for SpaceX Dragon capsule to approach and dock with the station at the beginning of the next week if the planned launch on Saturday morning is successful. A final flight readiness review confirmed that the improvements in the capsule’s software systems are working the right way [...]
In January 2010, Space Generation Advisory Council introduced a new working group on Space Safety and Sustainability, following successful projects in the fields of GNSS, Near Earth Objects, and Disaster Management. Comprising of a team of students and young professionals from both established and emerging space nations, the Space Safety and Sustainability (SSS) working group [...]
In February 2012, the Swiss Space Center at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) announced a project to clean up space debris, starting with Swiss cubesats Swisscube-1 and TIsat-1. In the video below, EPFL explains the dangers and challenges of space debris and how CleanSpace One may tackle the problem. Staff WritersMore Posts
The Soyuz TMA-04M that launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on May 15 carrying cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin and astronaut Joe Acaba successfully docked with the International Space Station Poisk module on May 17. After joining ISS residents Oleg Kononenko, Don Pettit, and Andre Kuipers for a welcome ceremony, the new crew will begin familiarizing themselves [...]
Source: ESA A partnership with the UK’s Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency’s space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks. ESA’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is keeping watch over space hazards, including disruptive space weather, debris objects in Earth orbit and asteroids that pass close enough to [...]
Despite prior reports that the Shenzhou-9 mission was to be delayed, it now seems that a June launch could be in the works, carrying a crew of three Chinese taikonauts to space for the first manned docking with the Chinese space station Tiangong-1. In February, the China Manned Space Engineering (CMSE) agency announced that the [...]
Smokey the Bear is a symbol of fire safety across the United States. For decade, he has warned the public, especially children, of the dangers of wildfires and how to prevent them. Now, he can do so from space, following his May 15 launch to the International Space Station in the company of Expedition 31 crew. [...]
Sir Elton John’s classic song “Rocket Man” turned 40 on April 17. In celebration, he created the video below, sending it to the International Space Station. “This song has been an inspiration to many people who are interested in space, and especially those who wanted to become astronauts, including myself,” said André Kuipers, ESA astronaut [...]
As China plans to build the Chinese Space Station in Low Earth Orbit around 2020, Chinese researchers are busy developing a new generation of technologies to support long term human survival in space. A small but important step forward was made during the 17 days long November flight of Shenzhou VIII spacecraft. The results were [...]
The second half of International Space Station Expedition 31 crew launched successful from Baikonour Cosmodrome aboard the Soyuz TMA-04M on May 15. Flight engineers Joe Acaba, Gennady Padalka, and Sergei Revin are scheduled to rendezvous with their crewmates aboard ISS on May 16. This will be cosmonaut Gennady Padalka’s fourth mission. His first space flight [...]
In the promotional video below, the space tourism company presents its concept for a suborbital spacecraft, capable to send pairs of deep pocketed adventurers on suborbital flights with a few minutes of zero gravity experience and return them where they’ve departed from. Staff WritersMore Posts
Marshall’s Space Flight Center engineering team is testing several crucial parts of the Orion service module, to insure it can survive long term missions into deep space. The testing consists in structural load cells, measuring the structural performance, more specifically how the material will behave when the weight is added. According to Scott Chartier, a [...]
SOHO, the Solar Heliospheric Observatory co-sponsored by NASA and ESA, is back online. The spacecraft was out of commission for just over a week. A technical problem of unknown origin derailed the observatory, prompting operators to put it in safe mode. “You safe a spacecraft if you don’t know what its status is,” Joe Gurman, [...]
Asteroids are hot commodities of late. Not long after Planetary Resources Inc. announced their intention of mining asteroids for profit, word comes that NASA will soon begin training astronauts for missions to an asteroid. “With the technology we have available and are developing today, an asteroid mission of up to a year is definitely achievable,” says [...]
This time lapse video shows assembly of a scale model of the Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser, one of the candidates in NASA’s commercial crew program. The model is undergoing buffet testing at the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Staff WritersMore Posts
The Space X Dragon capsule, loaded with 550 kilograms of non-critical cargo, aims to be launched on a newly scheduled launch date of May 19. A possible back up opportunity will take place three days later on Tuesday May 22. After the software assurance processes were successfully completed, it seems there is nothing blocking the way [...]
Source: NASA Imagine you’re an astronaut exploring the surface of Mars, when suddenly you fall ill or injure yourself. As your team struggles to get you safely back to base, you become seriously dehydrated. With their trusty — and ingenious — kit, the medical officer hooks into the drinking water supply, using it to create [...]
GIlles LabruyereGilles is Principal Mechanical Engineer of the Aeolus satellite at the European Space Agency. His previous baby was Envisat. He has always been satellite mechanical engineer. However, in 1994, there were things to say that could not be easily told. The two first cartoons were pinned in the corridor and had some success. [...]
