Aerospace

Space Weather Fallout: Plasma Waves In Earth's Atmosphere

A new study shows that plasma waves buffeting the planet's radiation belts are responsible for scattering charged particles into the atmosphere, creating the most detailed analysis so far of the link between these waves and the fallout of electrons f ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2015 - 2:00pm

Why Are Reusable Rockets So Hard To Make?

Giving it a go... EPA By Angelo Niko Grubišić, University of Southampton SpaceX is attempting a huge feat in spacecraft engineering. It is seeking to land the first stage of its Falcon 9-R rocket on a floating platform at sea. Normally this would end up a ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 11 2015 - 1:34am

What Are The Medical Safety Needs Of Civilian Space Travel?

In space no one can hear you bleed, but what about on a private spacecraft?  The commercial aviation industry has medical care standards, as does NASA for traditional space missions. Eventually someone is going to tell Elon Musk and Richard Brandon that th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2015 - 7:58pm

Space Station False Alarm Keeps Science Flies From Their Breakfast

Credit: International Space Station By Monica Grady, The Open University ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 15 2015 - 5:45pm

Beagle-2 Mars Lander, Lost Since 2003, Gets Found By Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

The Beagle-2 Mars lander,hitched a ride on ESA’s Mars Express mission in 2003 and was released from the mothership on December 19th with a planned landing 6 days later.   Then it was lost. Mars Express and NASA’s Mars Odyssey found nothing.  But now the hi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2015 - 1:11pm

We've Found Beagle2! Now Where Did Philae Go?

By Monica Grady, The Open University Landing a spacecraft on a celestial body, whether it be the moon, Mars or a comet, is not easy. The European Space Agency found out the hard way in 2003 when its robot Beagle2, which was supposed to send back a signal ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 16 2015 - 6:16pm

21st Century Space Science Using 18th Century Technology

Balloons are common at childrens' birthday parties- we can thank Professor Michael Faraday of The Royal Institution for inventing "caoutchoucs"- but ever since the Montgolfier brothers took their lives in their hands and flew a hot air ballo ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2015 - 10:56am

On the Edge of The Unknown

The mysterious, distant and yet unexplored by any probe world of Pluto and its moons, located on the edge of our solar system, is about to get visited. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14 will perform the first ever close-up flyby of the fallen plan ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Feb 2 2015 - 12:18am

Heart Of Voh- Not A D&D Relic, It's A Swamp As Seen From Space

Known as the ‘Heart of Voh’ for its proximity to the Voh commune, a mining colony controlled by the French, these Mangrove swamps along the coast of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific Ocean formed this natural structure, caused by changes in vegetation ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2015 - 11:26am

IXV Spaceplane's Successful Test Makes European Aerospace Company Proud

On Feb. 11, ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), atmospheric reentry demonstrator, successfully completed its first test flight, ending with a splashdown into the Pacific Ocean and one aerospace company is bursting with pride over the flawless t ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Feb 22 2015 - 7:43pm