Hand of God – NASA Telescope
X-Ray telescope searching for black holes captures this awesome sight!
X-Ray telescope searching for black holes captures this awesome sight!
Virgin Galactic’s private reusable space plane reached new heights on January 10th setting a company altitude record in its third-ever supersonic flight test. The successful flight keeps Virgin Galactic on course to start commercial service...
An animation of JWST deploying its sunshield and its mirrors. This video includes several additional or alternative animation clips of key deployment actions. n November 2011, Congress reversed plans to cancel the JWST and instead...
Highlights of 2013 from the Ames Research Center. A look back at the space-related missions, research and technology demonstrations completed during 2013 by scientists, researchers and staff at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
Images from ESA’s Mars Express takes you on an unforgettable journey across the Red Planet.
Here are the basic principles of rocket science. Rockets have been responsible for getting humans into space and will remain the only method for the forseeable future.
Learn about upcoming launches to a nearby asteroid, a comet as it approaches the sun, and the first test flight of NASA’s new Orion crew module. all this is to come in 2014.
News from ESO. Planet hunters have discovered three planets orbiting stars in the cluster Messier 67. Although more than one thousand planets outside the Solar System are now confirmed, only a handful have been...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested its G-FOLD (Fuel Optimal Large Divert Guidance Algorithm) divert algorithm experimental landing system on September 20, 2013 at the Mohave Air & Space Port in Mojave, Calif.
After an eight-year long journey, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is quickly approaching Pluto. As of 21 January 2014, its distance from Pluto is about 4.29 AU (An AU is roughly the distance of the Earth...
The great Carl Sagan discusses the first, second, third, and fourth dimension.
A. After more than two years in a deep sleep, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has woken up. A signal confirming its alert status was received by controllers in Darmstadt, Germany, at 18:17 GMT. The Rosetta...
Here is part 2 of a basic introduction to lunar and interplanetary navigation for manned spaceflight. The film was made in 1968 and the footage shows, through animation and live photography, the use of computers and...
Part 1 of an old NASA film on space navigation. Spacecraft navigation comprises two aspects: (1) knowledge and prediction of spacecraft position and velocity, which is orbit determination, and (2) firing the rocket motor...
This video details planetary motion or orbital mechanics. It explains Kepler’s and Newton’s Laws plus terminology including perigee, apogee, eccentricity, orbital inclination, launch window, etc.
Cosmologists are becoming ever more certain that a large fraction of the mass in the universe is invisible and does not emit or absorb light. This talk will give a basic introduction to the...
A history of the Chinese space programme made a few weeks before Jade Rabbit landed on the Moon.