Hydrogen Economy
Russia will raise prices for the delivery of American astronauts into orbit
Spacecraft cracked the U.S. in space
The main body of the American space ship Endeavour, which docked with the International Space Station (ISS), NASA experts discovered just two damage. Nearly one out of the windows cockpit walked round ceramic lining,
Ice in Antarctica
K: Ed, it says here that Antarctica nearly doubles its size every winter . . .
E: Hey! Just like my cousin Earl!
K: . . . and that the size increase is due to ice freezing in the ocean around the continent.
The Earth Satellite Ephemeris Service
This WWW form produces a table which tells where and when to look from a given location to see overflights of the brighter artificial Earth satellites. On a given evening from a dark rural location, dozens of satellites can be located in the sky,
Planck delivers its first images of the cosmic microwave!
Designed to map the cosmic background radiation emitted about 380,000 years after the “birth” of the observable universe, the Planck satellite works perfectly. He proves it by delivering the first images showing part of the sky is clear on which a portion of the Milky Way in the field of microwaves.
The insertion of a Planck [...]
Cosmodrome Plesetsk today delivered the spacecraft Proba 2
At Plesetsk begins a campaign for the launch vehicles “Rokot” with two European spacecraft SMOS ( «SIOS) and Proba 2 (” Sample 2 “), which is scheduled for November 2. One of the two spacecraft, a technology demonstrator “Proba-2″, today was brought to the Plesetsk. Check spacecraft “SIOS” at the cosmodrome is planned in mid-September. [...]
Programmed to launch a new satellite service
HTML clipboard A satellite phone presented by Terre Star to the International CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas will soon been marketed. As a regular phone, it might interest those who are currently excluded from the terrestrial networks in North America.
This follows the announcement by Terre Star and [...]
Lunar Eclipse Tonight
Tonight, if you are in North America, you can see a total lunar eclipse beginning at 10:01 p.m. EST (9:01 CST). The eclipse should last 51 minutes.
New COTS Watch Blog
Michael has started a new blog specially about:
…news, articles, whitepapers and opinions about NASA’s Commercial Orbital
Transportation Services (COTS) initiative.
T/Space Drop Test
T/Space and Scaled composites had a drop test of a scale Crew Transfer Vehicle (CXV).
