Aerospace

Karoo Array Telescope First Results: Giant Outbursts From Binary Star System Circinus X-1

The Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) in South Africa, the pathfinder radio telescope for the $3 billion global Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, has released its first results. ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2013 - 10:09am

The Storm System That Created The Oklahoma Tornado- As Seen From Space

Yesterday, a monster tornado almost 2-miles wide tore through Moore, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City, wiping out entire blocks and killing 24 people.  The National Weather Service upgraded its calculation of the storm's strength today, declaring ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2013 - 5:38pm

Tropical Storm Andrea's Towering Thunderstorms Hit Florida

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM satellite) flew directly above tropical storm Andrea on Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 0508 UTC (1:08 a.m. EDT). This orbit showed that Andrea had a large area of moderate to heavy rainfall in the northeast ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 6 2013 - 5:02pm

Lone Signal: METI Teams Up With Citizen Science To Try And Make First Contact

If you want to make sure your extra-terrestrial efforts can survive a nuclear attack, working inside the Jamesburg Earth Station on, fittingly, ComSat Road, just outside Carmel, California, is a fine choice. A short drive to Pebble Beach and Spyglass golf ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 13 2013 - 3:30pm

What's Waiting Out There 10 Times Faster Than A Speeding Bullet? Space Junk

We all think about space exploration, but we also need to think about dodging 50 years of debris from space exploration- aluminum, steel, nylon, even liquid sodium from Russian satellites. Sierra Club hasn't started fundraising over this issue yet bu ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2013 - 5:52pm

How Did Mars Lose Its Atmosphere? Curiosity Clues

NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars, which first landed inside the Gale Crater on Aug. 6th, 2012, may provide clues as to how the red planet lost its original atmosphere, which scientists believe was much thicker than the one left today. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2013 - 5:30am

Wave At The Sky Tomorrow- You Are Being Photographed From Saturn

Tomorrow, we are being photographed from space. No, it is not another NSA spying operation, it is NASA's Cassini and MESSENGER spacecraft, taking pictures of Earth from Saturn and Mercury. The image taken from the Saturn system by Cassini will occur b ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2013 - 10:40pm

Voyager 1 Riding the Magnetic Superhighway

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has now traveled further from Earth than any previous launched object- 11 billion miles and counting. It is on the edge of our solar system and about to enter deep interstellar space. Since it is in uncharted air, it's no ...

Blog Post - Bobby Knight - Jul 20 2013 - 11:43am

A Particle Accelerator In The Heart Of Earth's Radiation Belts

A lingering space mystery has been how electrons within Earth's radiation belt can suddenly become energetic enough to kill orbiting satellites. Thanks to data gathered from a pair of NASA probes roaming the harsh environment of near-Earth space, scie ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2013 - 5:40pm

VERIS: 15 Minutes To Study The Sun

In August 8th, the VERIS rocket is going to launch from the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. VERIS is short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and its 15-minute trip will carry an instrument that can measure properties of the structures ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2013 - 10:33am