January 16th, 2015
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Talk about close…but no cigar! Lost on Mars since 2003, scientists from the United Kingdom and the European Space Agency (ESA) announced today that images taken by the super-powerful HiRISE camera system onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the ill-fated Beagle-2. Beagle-2 was the UK’s first mission to another planet. The missing-in-action Beagle-2 lander was […]
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Volcano-exploring robots are being developed and tested, machinery that might be used for studying long-gone or still active extraterrestrial volcanoes. For example, on both Earth and Mars, fissures are the most common physical features from which magma erupts. This is probably also true for the previously active volcanoes on the Moon, Mercury, Enceladus and Europa, although […]
Earlier today, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) spoke with Houston Chronicle’s Eric Berger in anticipation of becoming chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Space, and Competitiveness. To check out the full transcript of the interview, go to: http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2079
Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Huygens probe parachuted into the history books by descending to the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Humanity’s first successful attempt to land a probe on another world in the outer Solar System took place on January 14, 2005. Huygens hitched a ride to the Saturn system […]
My new updated story on a controversial claim by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency: CIA About UFOs of the 1950s and ’60s: ‘It Was Us’ by Leonard David, Space.com’s Space Insider Columnist January 14, 2015 07:00am ET http://www.space.com/28256-ufo-sightings-cia-u2-aircraft.html
Ground controllers have successfully braked the service module of China’s test lunar spacecraft into Moon orbit. According to the State-run Xinhua news agency, the module has entered an 8-hour elliptical orbit that reaches about 125 miles (200 kilometers) from the Moon’s surface and swings outward from the Moon to about 3,293 miles (5,300 kilometers). According […]
A balloon-borne telescope was launched to the edge of Earth’s atmosphere on January 1, traveling on a 20-day mission from Antarctica. The onboard payload was SPIDER, a telescope designed to investigate the origin of the universe. Nudged along by circumpolar winds, the balloon will carry SPIDER at an altitude of roughly 120,000 feet while the […]
My new look at what’s profitable by going off-planet to the Moon: Is Moon Mining Economically Feasible? by Leonard David, Space.com’s Space Insider Columnist January 07, 2015 07:11am ET http://www.space.com/28189-moon-mining-economic-feasibility.html
In a December 29 tweet from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), word is that their #1 most read on their #Bestof2014 list: “Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the ‘50s? It was us.” An attached document from 1998 is titled The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974, a document prepared by the […]
Chinese space controllers are placing into Moon orbit the service module used for the country’s circumlunar test flight last November. Slated to return to the Moon’s orbit mid-month, the service module has departed a temporary position at the Earth-Moon second Lagrange Point (L2). According to the State-run Xinhua news agency: “It was the first time […]
