March 21st, 2014
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Made in the Shade Idea: Imaging Exoplanets http://spacecoalition.com/blog/made-in-the-shade-idea-imaging-exoplanets
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Later this year, it’ll be a hot time for increasing Europe’s knowledge base for future reentry missions. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) project is to tackle the basic European needs for reentry from low Earth orbit. IXV’s launch, using Europe’s new Vega light launcher, is scheduled for October 2014. Flight […]
The idea of power-beaming from space to Earth has long been studied. Lots of issues brought forward within lots of reports over lots of years. New work by the U.S. Naval Laboratory (NRL) has shed new light on how to build spacecraft to first capture solar power in space and then transmit that power down […]
Citizen science is blazing a trail into Earth orbit. Onboard the SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon capsule soon to be headed for the International Space Station (ISS) are microbes collected from across the United States. The effort is known as Project MERCCURI. It investigates how microbes from different places on Earth compare to each other and to […]
X-15: The World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age by John Anderson and Richard Passman; Zenith Press/Quayside Publishing Group, Minneapolis, MN.; Licensed by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; $30.00 (hard cover); 2014. This account of the pioneering X-15 program (flying from 1959 into 1968) is a highly enjoyable […]
Take a walk on Mars…without leaving Earth! Check out the third annual MarsFest in Death Valley National Park, being held March 28-30 within the breathtaking desert valley located in Eastern California. Visitors of all ages are invited to MarsFest 2014 – to elevate public awareness about planetary analog research taking place at special spots on […]
Mars return sample back to Earth – with a SpaceX twist! My new story up on SPACE.com: Project ‘Red Dragon’: Mars Sample-Return Mission Could Launch in 2022 with SpaceX Capsule http://www.space.com/24984-spacex-mars-mission-red-dragon.html
Up on SPACE.com – a revealing look at this concept: ‘Faxing’ Life from Mars: Craig Venter’s Wild, Digital Space Exploration Idea http://www.space.com/24923-faxing-life-from-mars-craig-venter.html
A top-notch team of MIT engineers has scoped out orbiting way stations – one such depot placed somewhere between the Earth and the Moon. Once in place, this type of filling station could reduce the fuel a spacecraft needs to carry from Earth. That means, with less fuel onboard, a rocket could launch heavier payloads, […]
My new SPACE.com story can be found here: Futuristic Moon Elevator Idea Takes Aim at Lunar Lifts http://www.space.com/24905-moon-elevator-lunar-exploration-liftport.html
