Orbital Mechanics
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.
Author: Taath
Solving the Puzzle of Dark Matter? – Prof Lars Bergström
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...
Chinese Space Program – The Past and Future
A history of the Chinese space programme made a few weeks before Jade Rabbit landed on the Moon.
Gaia’s 1 Billion Pixel Camera
ESA’s Gaia mission will produce an unprecedented 3D map of our Galaxy by mapping, with exquisite precision, the position and motion of a billion stars.
Gaia’s Mission To Solve The Celestial Puzzle
Following on from yesterday’s video on the Gaia launch, here we offer some background information on what Gaia hopes to achieve.
Gaia Launch Highlights
ESA’s Gaia mission blasted off on 19 December 2013 on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its exciting mission to study a billion suns.
Spacesuit Testing for a Future Asteroid Mission
Modified versions of the spacesuits of the type worn by shuttle astronauts during launch and reentry are currently being tested for use by future crews in the Orion spacecraft.
Starting Fire in Water
Astronauts aboard the ISS are experimenting with supercritical water. A type of water that has a strange property in that it can start fire.
The Mars Underground – 2
Here is part 2 of this amazing documentary. The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary about renowned aerospace scientist and visionary, Dr. Robert Zubrin, and his struggle to get the first human mission to Mars...
The Mars Underground – 1
The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary about renowned aerospace scientist and visionary, Dr. Robert Zubrin, and his struggle to get the first human mission to Mars off the ground. Here is part 1...
The Moon Battered By Impacts
A very informative video on the Moon using data collected over the last fifty or so years from satellites and observations. Where did the moon come from? What is it made of? And what...
Jupiter Will Be at Opposition During January 2014 – NASA JPL
A look at the night sky this month with the main event being Jupiter at opposition, and Venus at conjunction. The Quadrantid meteor shower will put on a showing, as well.
NASA to Grow Vegetables In Space
NASA is to start vegetable growing experiments on the ISS. If humans are ever to colonise other planets then there has to be a system of local food production.
Space (New Worlds) – Sam Neil
The Sun is getting hotter and one day life on Earth will become impossible. In this episode of ‘Space’ Sam Neil looks at new planets that will one day have to house human beings.
Space (Are We Alone?) – Sam Neil
Sam Neil continues his look at ‘Space’. This time exploring the possibility of Alien Life. The search for life on other worlds has been compared to identifying a single grain of sand on the Moon,...
Space (Staying Alive) – Sam Neil
In the second part of ‘Space’ Sam Neill takes us on a rollercoaster ride through the galaxy to discover how disasters in space regularly threaten our entire world.
