Aerospace

Next Space Station Crew Approved, Geopolitical Tensions Not to Affect ISS Cooperation

The inter-agency commission of the Cosmonauts' Training Center on Friday approved the primary crew lineup for the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft. The crew consists of Roscosmos (Russia's Federal Space Agency) cosmonauts Aleksandr Samokutyayev and Yele ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Sep 7 2014 - 12:51pm

Where Can You Get Some Space Debris?

Objects in space spin, most people know that, but what is less known is that they spin in a way that's totally different from the way they spin on earth. It comes down to where their centers of mass are, and how their mass is distributed- knowing how ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 7:30pm

The Final Frontier, Now Open To Just About Everyone (Rich)

For obvious reasons spaceflight has been reserved for governments and the very wealthy. And when it comes to governments, the criteria are stringent. They will get thousands of applications per year and quickly weed out most of them. Predominantly you hav ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2014 - 10:29am

Launching America to Space: Enthusiastic Reception for NASA's Commercial Crew Decision

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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Sep 19 2014 - 5:30pm

Planck Data Says BICEP2 Gravitational Waves Were Contaminants

Gravitational waves are phenomena predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity but no one has ever observed them and their discovery would have profound implications for the study of the Universe. Last March, the team behind the BICEP2 projec ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2014 - 2:32pm

New Amsterdam On Mars Is Bold, But Is It Feasible?

The Dutch have always been bold. Not just any culture would make wooden shoes a thing and turn tulip bulbs into a luxury investment. And if you like New York City, you can thank New Amsterdam. Now Holland wants to be a colonial power again, this time on M ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2014 - 5:44pm

New Horizons Pluto Mission Gets Potential Kuiper Belt Targets

The Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered three Kuiper Belt objects that the New Horizons spacecraft could potentially visit after doing a fly-by of Pluto in July 2015. The Kuiper Belt is a vast rim of primordial debris encircling our solar system. KBOs bel ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2014 - 8:00am

Cosmic Rays Jeopardize Deep-Space Astronaut Missions

No one is going into deep space any time soon, the modern political climate is such that it will now be common for one president to cancel his predecessor's program. As President Obama did to Bush, someone in 2017 is likely to do to President Obama. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2014 - 4:30pm

Integrated Science Instrument Module: Webb Telescope's Heart Survives Deep Freeze Test

Though it has been in the works since 1996 and long passed both its original 2011 completion date and even the most aggressive budget estimate, the James Webb Space Telescope has a milestone that may get people excited: after 116 days of extremely frigid ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2014 - 7:00pm

Supersonic Laser-Propelled Aircraft Get A Step Closer

Aircraft propelled by beams of light rather than fuel? Laser-propulsion just got a step closer thanks to a new method for improving the thrust systems developed by physicists Yuri Rezunkov of the Institute of Optoelectronic Instrument Engineering and Alex ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2014 - 1:34pm