ISON – Comet Of The Century
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Comet ISON is already being called the comet of the century. It is not on a collision course but it is predicted to be...
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Huygens Titan Descent
Huygens was an atmospheric entry probe carried the Saturn Moon, Titan as part of the Cassini-Huygens mission. Here is a video made up of images taken by Huygens during its descent onto Titan in...
Curiosity Update – 18th Jan 2013
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is the latest update from Curiosity. Curiosity has been investigating the Yellowknife Bay area looking for a suitable location for its first drill...
Expandable Habitats To Be Tested on ISS
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced Wednesday a newly planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test...
Orion And Space Launch System Animation
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A superb animation of the Exploration Mission-1 in 2017 which will be the first mission to incorporate both the Orion vehicle and NASA’s new...
Robotic Refuelling Mission – Day 1
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Following yestedays post on robot development for space applications, here is feedback from Day 1 of the RRM project (Robotic Refuelling Mission.), a project...
NASA Developing Space Robots
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Information on experiments on robots to be used to service satellites and spacecraft. The end goal is to develop a robust suite of essential robotic...
Update From NASA – 11th January 2013
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is the latest update from Nasa which includes an introduction to the ‘Commercial Crew Programme’, which is a series of joint ventures between...
Controlling Curiosity
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A look at Curiosity’s twin, which is used as a test platform and for rehearsing manoeuvers here on Earth. And also a look at...
Curiosity Update – January 10 2013
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – An update on Curiosity with information on its ‘brush’ which has been used for the first time and the drill. Great new pictures of...
Last Video Footage From Grail
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends”- Three days prior to its planned impact on a lunar mountain, mission controllers activated the camera aboard one of NASA’s GRAIL twins to take some...
Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting Twin Stars
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The Kepler Mission is specifically designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover Earth-size planets in or...
Volunteers Wanted For One Way Trip To Mars
– For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is information on The Netherlands-based nonprofit Mars One, which hopes to put the first boots on the Red Planet in 2023, has just released its...
Dark Lightning
– “For You TO Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The Fermi Gamma ray telescope captured an outburst of high energy positrons in 2010. That’s just the type of energy that Fermi is supposed...
The Monster At The Centre Of The Galaxy
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A discussion of the black holes at the centre of galaxies. The Black Hole at the centre of our galaxy is a million times...
NASA Update – 5th January 2013
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The latest update from NASA with information on the development and testing of the new Space Launch System and other development programmes. Also some...
New Horizons Mission To Pluto
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – An introduction to the New Horizon mission to Pluto which hopes to encounter the dwarf planet in 2015. The spacecraft left Earth at the greatest-ever...
