Asteroid Mining Mission – Planetary Resources
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Investors and small companies like Planetary Resources are looking at missions to mine near Earth asteroids. As has been proven by SpaceX, space is...
Monthly Archive: October 2012
Animation of Juno’s Jupiter Mission
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Following on from our background on the Juno mission to Jupiter here is an animation of the Juno mission and more information on what...
What Lies Inside Jupiter
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – For four long centuries, since the invention of the telescope, the Jupiter’s vast interior has remained hidden from view due to vast cloud cover....
The First Dragon Supply Mission
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here we see the Dragon capsule meeting up with the ISS to deliver a half ton of supplies. This is the first shipment of...
Sudden Black Hole Flare Up Spotted
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A rise in high energy X-rays from a source towards the centre of the Milky Way, was detected by Scientists using NASA’s Swift satellite. It...
Curiosity’s First Scoop
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A Martian soil sample was lifted from the ground on October 7th 2012 by the scoop on the robotic arm of Curiosity. This video...
SpaceX CRS-1 Launch To ISS
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule lift off of the pad on a mission to open America’s new operational cargo capability to the International...
More On The Higgs Boson
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is a further explanation of the Higgs Boson and why it is so significant. The Higgs boson is predicted to exist for theoretical...
SpaceX Set For October 7th Launch
-“For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – SpaceX is set to launch the first of a dozen operational missions for NASA to deliver more than 1,000 pounds of supplies to the...
A Tour Of Chile’s Telescopes
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Chile is a magnet for the worlds astronomers due to the north part of the country being very high above sea level, having clear...
Antares Is Rolled Out
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Orbital Sciences Corporation’s rolls out Antares Rocket to the launch pad at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the morning of Oct. 1, 2012. This...
What Exactly Is The Higgs Boson?
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln describes the nature of the Higgs boson. In July Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the...
ISS Expedition 33/34 Mission Overview
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is the latest update from the International Space station. The work now under way on board is designed to support deep space exploration in...
When Neutron Stars Collide
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Using the latest state-of-the-art supercomputer models, scientists have shown that colliding neutron stars can produce a gamma-ray burst. This follows on from earlier simulations...
