New Lunar Mission Suffers Minor Glitch After Spectacular Launch
LADEE probe will investigate thin lunar atmosphere and perform laser communications tests (Credits: NASA). Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment... Read more →
Cosmonaut Quits After Finding Something “More Interesting” To Do
Cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov clearly has better things to do (Credits: RIA Novosti). According to Russian news agency RIA Novosti, Cosmonaut Yury... Read more →
Elon Musk Demonstrates Rocket Design with Gestures
As promised, Elon Musk has demonstrated his science fiction-turned-reality implementation of a three dimensional gesture controlled rocket modelling... Read more →
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Roars Through Second Supersonic Flight
By Jason Rhian At 8 a.m. PDT, over the deserts of Mojave, California Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2), ferried aloft by the WhiteKnightTwo... Read more →
MUOS Ground Station in Sicily Raises Protests and Concerns
MUOS ground station in the Naval Radio Transmitter Facility of Niscemi, Italy (Credits: Repubblica). In July 2013, MUOS-2, the second of a series... Read more →
Secure World Foundation Issues China ASAT Fact Sheet
Anti-satellite testing in which a targeted orbiting satellite is destroyed by a projectile has become dangerous in a crowded orbital environment. The... Read more →