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• Where the F*** is My Jetpack?

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 436
  In 2000, IBM ran a commercial with Avery Brooks asking “Where are the flying cars?” That became a minor meme. Here’s another one that probably should… the song “Jetpack” by Tim Wilson. I’ve not heard it anywhere but on the Bob & Tom show some weeks back… and after spending $0.99 to download it ...
  12 hours ago

• Moons Friends Say No to Future Lunar Crashes

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  When a NASA spacecraft rammed into the moon in October, it tossed up a hard-to-see plume of lunar material. But the event also stirred an observable cloud of public anxiety and protests in some quarters about "bombing" the moon, a backlash that may hint at a rising "Friends of the Moon" movement. On Oct. 9, the Lunar ...
  14 hours ago

• Comet chaser Rosetta’s Earth swingby right on schedule

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Paris, November 7 (ANI): Estimates have shown that European Space Agency’s (ESA) comet chaser Rosetta’s Earth swingby is right on schedule, and it would pass within a few kilometers of the planned point of closest approach during the swingby. After the trajectory correction maneuver on October 22, Rosetta has ...
  1 day ago

• Femtoseconds Lasers Will Help Formation Flying In Space

  
  Future Transportation — Authority: 131
  Theoretical work commissioned to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) by the European Space Agency has recently concluded that lasers capable of generating extremely short pulses — known as “femtosecond comb lasers” — could be of great help in measuring the distance between two or more spacecraft to an ...
  2 days ago

• Air Launch Sortie Vehicle artwork: 1

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 436
  This bit of artwork illustrates the 1983 design by Rockwell International for the Air launch Sortie Vehicle program. This was meant to develop a small reusable spaceplane that could be launched on a moments notice, to service or place small satellites (communications, recon, etc.) or even weapons systems. Several ...
  3 days ago

• Jeff Greason

  
  Gravity Loss — Authority: 113
  The Man. On Space Review . [EDIT: About a month ago, but I only just read it.] This is just excellent. So many things I agree with, that go against the stupid myths of spaceflight and space policy. If you read one space policy interview this year, this should be it! “NASA is an organization that is dominated by ...
  3 days ago

• NASA’s Messenger sees iron and titanium on Mercury

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, November 5 (ANI): NASA’s spacecraft Messenger has detected rich concentrations of iron and titanium on the surface of the planet Mercury.Previous Earth and spacecraft-based observations had detected only very low amounts of iron in the silicate minerals covering the innermost world. Because of its immense ...
  3 days ago

• Some European scientists have Launched a Satellite that Predicts Floods in advance

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 600
  Science and Technology is ever advancing. Today some European scientists launched a satellite called “Smos Spacecraft”, which will make flood prediction easier by tracking water flows around the Earth. The satellite will also provide better weather forecasts and estimate the impact of climate change including ...
  5 days ago

• NASA spacecraft makes deepest dive yet into Saturn moon’s jets to find life

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, November 3 (ANI): NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has made its deepest plunge yet into the plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which might reveal complex organic molecules that could hint at life.Researchers have been fascinated with Enceladus since July 2005, when Cassini revealed plumes of ice particles and ...
  5 days ago

• Rocket Launch Key to Next Generation GPS

  
  GPSReviewsBlog.com — Authority: 141
  Ares 1-X, NASAs first rocket in its "new frontier" Constellation space exploration program, rose from its launch pad and pierced the sky Oct. 28 at Kennedy Space Center, FL - buoying hopes that the door had been flung open to a great future in deep space exploration. The United States had a tall order for the 1.8 ...
  6 days ago

• European satellite to provide new insights into how water is cycled around Earth

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, November 2 (ANI): An European satellite that will provide major new insights into how water is cycled around the Earth, has been launched into space.According to a report by BBC News, the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) spacecraft will make the first global maps of the amount of moisture held in soils ...
  6 days ago

• NASA’s Aries rocket launch from Wednesday.

  
  SHODAN LIVES — Authority: 130
  NASA’s Aries rocket launch from Wednesday.
  1 week ago

• Nova, 1961

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 436
  A NASA-Marshall concept for a Nova launch vehicle. Nova began life as a vehicle somewhat smaller and lower-capability than the Saturn V, and quickly grew substantially larger than the Saturn V, ending its run as the “Post Saturn” launch vehicle (with designs such as Nexus ). This design features eight F-1 engines ...
  1 week ago

• First SBIRS GEO Spacecraft Progressing in Thermal Vacuum Test Phase

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  SUNNYVALE, Calif, October 29th, 2009 – Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] announced today that the second Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft is progressing through a series of key tests that will demonstrate the integrated satellite’s readiness to enter the critical environmental ...
  1 week ago

• Robot Armies Will Likely “Explore Alien Worlds”

  
  Baxter King's Creepy — Authority: 128
  Sure, Robots will be doing extremely dangerous and important work in the future but, they’ll also be used by street toughs to pluck out the eyes of rival gang members. I suppose as long as they don’t pluck out my eyes, I’d be ok with this future. “Robotic airships and satellites will fly above the surface of ...
  1 week ago

• Shuttle + SPS art

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 436
  Another painting (I believe from Rockwell) showing a Shuttle Orbiter floating next to a giant Solar Power Satellite. Artwork likely from the late 1970’s. While most SPS concepts called for launching componants with giant boosters and/or flinging aluminum from the surface fo the moon with magnetic catapults, there ...
  1 week ago

• Shuttling the Shuttle: 747

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 436
  An early NASA sketch for a 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Note that it is essentially what actually got built, except for: 1) It doesn’t have the vertical stabilizers on the tips of the tailfins 2) It has aerodynamic fairings over the aft Shuttle supports
  1 week ago

• First ever close-up look of solar flare

  
  Astronomy — Authority: 116
  NASAs spacecraft Messenger has recorded a closed-ever-look at the solar flare . It was the first time that the scientists have got a close-up look at neutron production during solar flare. The scientists were able to record neutrons from this flare over 6 to 10 hours. The study of solar flare radiation is ...
  1 week ago

• Declassified Russian UFO Video

  
  EscapeTheIllusion.com — Authority: 125
  Short, but interesting declassified Russian UFO Video.
  1 week ago

• NASA ready for Ares I-X Rocket Launch

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 712
  NASA gets ready to launch the Ares I-X Rocket
  1 week ago

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