ESA’s FlySafe to Make Flying Safer
Bird tracking from ground and space helps planes avoid bird strike (Credits: ESA). Bird strike, when an airplane flies into one or more birds... Read more →
DARPA Shows Progress on Phoenix Satellite Scavenger
Phoenix scavenger spacecraft gets to work deconstructing a satellite (Credits: DARPA). On January 22, DARPA released a video showing the progress... Read more →
Kepler Telescope Goes Into Precautionary “Safe Mode”
The Kepler space telescope, launched in 2009 to search for habitable planets outside the solar system (Credits: NASA). NASA’s Kepler space... Read more →
Another Asteroid Mining Company Opens Shop
Artist's impression of a "Harvestor" class mission (Credits: Deep Space Industries). A second asteroid harvesting company has announced that it... Read more →
Curiosity and Orion Parade for Presidential Inauguration
On January 21, Barack Obama was cermonially inaugurated into his second four year term as president of the United States. In celebration, states and... Read more →
NASA Approves Next Falcon 9 Mission Following October Anomaly
Falcon 9 rocket's engines. Although 1 engine failed during the launc on October 7, the Dragon cargo made succesfully to the ISS (Credits:... Read more →