April 2nd, 2014
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It is tagged the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS for short. Funded by NASA, ATLAS is being developed by the University of Hawaii as an asteroid impact early warning system. When ATLAS is completed in 2015, it will consist of two telescopes, 100 miles apart, which automatically scan the whole sky several times […]
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You may be interested in this document: Benefits Stemming from Space Exploration It was released in September 2013 by the International Space Exploration Coordination Group. At its heart, this report explains that space exploration “will continue to be an essential driver for opening up new domains in science and technology, triggering other sectors to partner […]
Marketing the Moon – The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program by David Meerman Scott & Richard Jurek; MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.; $39.95 (hard cover); Feb. 2014. This is an absolutely marvelous and exceptional read! The authors, both marketing sages, have written a captivating book that delves into the promotion and public relations campaigns to […]
May is the target time for a novel effort by the Humans in Space Youth Art Competition. A “moon bounce performance” is slated using artwork in collaboration with visual artist, Daniela DePaulis, and the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope in The Netherlands. OPTICKS is a live radio transmission performance between the Earth and the Moon during which […]
It’s alive! The Philae comet lander has been successfully reactivated and broke its planned radio silence by sending data to Earth on March 28. Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft — with the Philae lander on board — has been making its way through space since March 2004 to investigate Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. What exactly is to be expected […]
US Air Force’s Secretive X-37B Space Plane Shatters Orbital Endurance Record By Leonard David, Space.com’s Space Insider Columnist March 27, 2014 11:44am ET http://www.space.com/25245-secret-x37b-space-plane-orbital-record.html Video: http://www.space.com/25244-skywatcher-captures-video-of-x-37b-unmanned-military-space-plane-video.html
I asked Yong-Chun Zheng, an associate researcher at the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, to provide an update on the overall health of the Chang’e 3 moon lander and the Yutu rover. Both mooncraft are soon to enter their next celestial slumber. On the Moon, there are roughly 14 days of sunlight/14 days […]
NASA has released its 2014 Strategic Plan, with the space agency’s Office of Strategy Formulation identified as the responsible office. “Our long-term goal is to send humans to Mars. Over the next two decades, we will develop and demonstrate the technologies and capabilities needed to send humans to explore the red planet and safely return […]
Want your own glimpse of Apollo 11’s grab and go samples from the Moon, in all 48 pounds (22 kilograms) of rock and soil specimens? This collection has been created through collaboration between The Open University in the United Kingdom and the NASA curation facility. You can now examine Apollo 11 thin sections using the […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has reached areas where orbital images had piqued researchers’ interest in patches of ground with striations all oriented in a similar direction. Here’s a sampling to whet your own curiosity that you may find of interest.
