June 27th, 2015
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“Mars has passed through solar conjunction, and reliable communication with the spacecraft at Mars is possible again,” explains Ken Herkenhoff, a member of the Curiosity Mars rover team. As the team starts implementing the Sol 1027 plan, the NASA Curiosity rover’s Mastcam observations of several targets that were imaged just before solar conjunction are being […]
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The seventh round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) was held June 22-24, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The two sides held in-depth discussions on major bilateral, regional, and global issues, including a number of space agenda items. “The depth and breadth of our discussion at this year’s Strategic & Economic Dialogue has been […]
NASA is moving forward on planting bootprints on the Red Planet. The “First Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars” will be held this October at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, Texas. The purpose of this workshop to be held October 27-30 is to identify and discuss […]
Colorado’s aerospace industry is growing and outperforming national economic trends. Eight of the country’s major space contractors have a significant presence in Colorado and the state continually outperforms national averages in employment, salary, and education. In 2014, Colorado ranked first in private aerospace employment in the U.S. and direct and indirect aerospace employment exceeded 160,000 […]
A design concept for future Mars missions has led to a system commercially suitable for Earthly water applications for non-potable use. The “Shower of the Future” offered by Orbital Systems, a Swedish clean tech start-up, shares the same water purification technology that NASA uses in space. This technology was spurred by a cooperative effort […]
They are mean and malicious – and could mess up your day here on Earth. That said about asteroids, an upcoming “global day of awareness and education” is incoming on June 30 – the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact in Siberia, the largest asteroid hit on Earth in recently recorded history. The Tunguska incident shattered […]
Just in time for the December release of the next installment of Star Wars. A new center is being eyed by the U.S. Pentagon and the intelligence community to hone tactics in the event of war in orbit. That’s the news from reporters at Defense One, based on coverage of Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work’s […]
It is tagged as Directed Energy Propulsion for Interstellar exploratioN (DEEP-IN), work that will also chart laser driver elements that require technology development. Thanks to a grant from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, research is underway to consider using directed energy propulsion for interstellar travel. Directed energy propulsion The work is […]
Following in the wake of the Planetary Society’s LightSail-A mission, another solar sail effort is being readied for a July departure. Boxed up and delivered to India last month, the DeorbitSail mission is among a number of payloads to be rocketed into space from the Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India. The DeorbitSail project […]
For all you folks in the South Dakota environs – Rushmore Mall welcomes Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Leonard David. I hope you’ll join us for a special update on our book: “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration.” The book is now in soft cover with a new essay […]
