Curiosity Update -15th February 2013
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here’s the latest update from the ‘Curiosity’ team which includes information on the first use of the drill.
Category: Technology
NASA Spinoffs
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here are details of the latest edition of NASA’s latest ‘spinoff’ magazine. There have been more than 1800 products derived from NASA’s space technology...
New ESA Missions
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Information on three forthcoming missions by the European Space Agency. Including project ‘Euclid’ , a project to study ‘dark matter’, which has recently been...
Update From NASA – 8th February 2013
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is the latest news from NASA. Including news on the new NASA Landsat Data Continuity Mission. Together with information on NASA Earth mission progammes.
Unlocking The Mysteries of The Universe
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – How the sky and stars are being digitised to help unlock the mysteries of the Universe. As this huge database comes to fruition it...
OSIRIS-REx Targets Near Earth Objects
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – NASA is sending the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to asteroid 1999 RQ36 to study the evolution of its orbit and to retrieve a sample for return...
Experiments With Laser Communications
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – NASA experimenting communications with lasers by sending an image of the ‘Mona Lisa’ to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). It is hoped that communications with...
Iran Space Monkey
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Iran is claiming that it has sent a monkey into space and returned it back to Earth alive. If correct, this is a big...
Chinese Probe’s Close Encounter With An Asteroid
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A Chinese deep space probe had a very close encounter with asteroid Toutatis in December 2012. The achievement signals China’s entry into yet another...
Update From NASA – 30th January 2013
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is the latest update from NASA with information on the newly launched TDRS-K and the robotic mission. In addition some information on why...
Launch of TDRS-K on Atlas V
– ” For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Yesterday’s launch of NASA’s new tracking & data relay satellite TDRS-K on an Atlas V rocket. TDRS-K is a next-generation NASA relay satellite...
NASA Reaching New Heights
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A recap of NASA’s recent achievements and a look into the future. President Obama called for the US to strengthen its technical lead and...
The Astro-H Mission
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A look at a future mission due to launch in mid 2013. The Astro-H space mission, (also known as NeXT/SXS) is led by the Japanese...
New Space Firm Plans To Mine Asteroids
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A new company, Deep Space Industries, has announced plans for mining asteroids. It intends to send a fleet of small prospecting spacecraft into the...
Top 10 Coolest Movie Spaceships
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A look at the best spaceships that science fiction has come up with. Who knows whether ships like these will ever travel the Universe....
Analysis of 2012 Global Temperature – NASA
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Interesting short video from NASA showing average global temepratures. It Shows that 2012 was the ninth warmest year since records began. The record dates...
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...
