An innovative plan to use “optical mining” is part of the Asteroid Provided In-Situ Supplies (Apis) concept — an ability to tap mega-amounts of water from space rocks to help establish valuable infrastructure in space.Credit: TransAstra PASADENA, Calif. — A new way to harvest asteroid resources is being eyed as a possible game changer for […]
Congratulations to the top 10 and the three prize winners in ESA’s #Estrack40 audio contest To source
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2 image of Mississippi’s swamps, USA, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source
Topics List Sep. 18, 2015 UpdatedUpgraded H-IIA (H-IIA F29) launch on Nov. 24 The launch of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No..29 (H-IIA F29) was set to be between 3:23 p.m. thru 5:07 p.m. on Nov. 24 (Tue.), 2015 (Japan Standard Time).Our achievement of developing an upgraded flagship launch vehicle for acquiring global-level launch capacity of […]
Topics List Sep. 16, 2015 UpdatedLive Internet broadcast of KOUNOTORI5’s departure from ISS on Sept. 28 (Mon.) The KOUNOTORI5 will leave the International Space Station (ISS) at 0:20 a.m. on September 29 (Tue.), and re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere at around 5:31 a.m. on the 30th (Wed.) to burn up. JAXA will broadcast the live report […]
Backlit by sunset over Pluto, NASA’s New Horizon’s probe captured rugged ~11,000ft (3,350m) mountains and wide glaciers of nitrogen ice. To quote Principal Investigator Alan Stern: “Pluto is surprisingly Earth-like…and no one predicted it.” (Full Story) Credit: Space.com/NASA/JHPL/SWRI/Edited by @SteveSpaleta To source
In a new video, an enormous cluster of sunspots rotates across the sun’s face before gradually separating into several distinct groups, which also fired off a bunch of solar flares. The massive grouping took less than a week, from Aug. 21 to Aug. 26, 2015, to travel across the face of the sun. It formed […]
A Russian Proton rocket launches the Express AM8 satellite from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Credit: Roscosmos PARIS — The successful Proton launch Sept. 14 of the Express AM8 telecommunications satellite completes the most urgent fleet-replenishment requirements and puts Russia’s satellite bandwidth supply into a favorable balance with expected demand, Russia’s two satellite fleet operators said Sept. […]
A spectacular new image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shows Pluto in an entirely new light. The photo, which New Horizons took during its epic July 14 flyby of Pluto, captures a gorgeous sunset view . Towering ice mountains cast long shadows, and more than a dozen layers of the dwarf planet’s wispy atmosphere are […]
Lead actor Matt Damon describes how Ridley Scott’s film – and Andy Weir’s book – can perk students’ curiosity, in this conversation with Space.com’s @DavidSkyBrody at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Also discussed: inhabiting a snarky character, astronauts (and actors) on too much time away from home, and the search for water worlds in space. The […]
High-school freshman Ahmed Mohamed was arrested Monday for bringing a clock he built to school after it was mistaken for a bomb. Scientists, engineers and tech organizations have responded en masse with their support.Credit: The Dallas Morning News (via YouTube ) NASA, Obama, MIT and more hailed teenaged Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested at school […]
Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto’s horizon. To source
ESA deploys ‘big iron’ to communicate with its deep-space missions: three 35 m-diameter dishes employing some of the world’s most advanced tracking technology. And it’s about to get a boost. ESA’s three Deep Space Antenna stations at New Norcia, Australia, Cebreros, Spain and Malargüe, Argentina, beam commands and receive data from spacecraft voyaging hundreds of […]