Hypervelocity Nuclear Interceptor Proposed for Asteroid Impactors
A Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle (HAIV) mission architecture blends a hypervelocity kinetic impactor with a subsurface nuclear explosion... Read more →
Classified Spaceplane Prepares for Third Test Flight
The X-37B taxiing in 2009 (Credits: US Air Force). The US Air Force spaceplane X-37B is being readied for its third Orbital Test Vehicle flight... Read more →
Meteor Lights Up UK
On September 21, clear skies gave residents of Scotland, Ireland, and Northern England a spectacular view of a meteor breaking up in the atmosphere.... Read more →
Rumors of MetOp-B Launcher Anomolies Surface
The Sept 17 launch of MetOp-B (credits: EUMETSAT). On September 17, European weather satellite MetOp-B launched aboard a Soyuz-2.1a rocket with... Read more →
Shuttle Engineer Henry Pohl Discusses the Non-intuitiveness of Microgravity
In this lecture on power and propulsion systems, provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Space Shuttle engineer Henry Pohl discusses... Read more →
NASA Believes 3D Printing is the Future of Space Construction
NASA provided $ 100,000 to the SpiderFab project in the framework of its Innovative Advanced Concepts program. The funding should allow in depth... Read more →