June 21st, 2015
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“For the Love of Spock” – a documentary film about Leonard Nimoy is under development by his son – Adam Nimoy. A Kickstarter campaign has been established to help Adam Nimoy complete the project. Adam Nimoy is an American television director. “Last year, just before Thanksgiving, I approached my dad, Leonard Nimoy, about the possibility […]
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European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, Alexander Gerst, video recorded an inside look at speeding back to Earth onboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.The last leg of the return to Earth from space is one of the trickiest and potentially most dangerous moments in the astronaut’s journey. Alexander Gerst is Germany’s most high profile astronaut. Between May […]
The folks at Orbit Logic Incorporated have issued a new version of SpyMeSat. It allows smart phone users to task a high resolution imaging satellite to take an image of a user-specified location. SpyMeSat users can task a high resolution imaging satellite (EROS-B) right from their smartphone to take a new image just for them […]
More good news about Europe’s Philae comet lander! The team at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) received data from the Philae lander for the third time on June 19th. In that time period, Philae sent 185 data packets from the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Night work After its seven-month […]
There’s a spaceport battle for space tourists. And it’s Branson versus Bezos – two different approaches to tackle the suborbital space travel business. “Virgin Galactic and its future base, New Mexico’s Spaceport America, have a serious competitor chomping at their heels from a private spaceport in far West Texas,” reports Bob Martin of KRQE […]
It has been announced that China’s Long March- 7 booster has passed a joint assessment by the China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation and China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology. The outcome of the appraisal, according to a June 18 report in China’s state-run news output, the People’s Daily Online, is that the technical condition […]
Earlier this week, at the Paris Air Show, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported first details on the flight of the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, IXV. That research craft was launched on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on February 11, 2015. Released into a suborbital trajectory, it flew autonomously, reentering and splashing […]
The view from space of our Earth just got a boost in eye-catching color. UrtheCast has released the world’s first, full-color HD videos of Earth, filmed from the International Space Station (ISS). The videos show the Earth at roughly one-meter resolution. Captured from the ISS videos of London, Barcelona, Boston and São Paulo, offer a […]
The receipt of signals from Rosetta’s Philae lander on June 13 after 211 days of hibernation has kick-started intense activity. In coordination with its mission partners, ESA teams are working to juggle Rosetta’s flight plan to help with renewed lander science investigations. Hidden by shadows, Philae shut down on November 15, 2014 after completing its […]
The Planetary Society’s impressive solar sail experiment has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere. Following its deployment in Earth orbit on May 20, LightSail-A deployed its solar sail on June 7. “The LightSail test mission is officially over. Following a 25-day stay in low-Earth orbit, the spacecraft tumbled back into Earth’s atmosphere Sunday afternoon,” posted the Planetary Society’s […]
