The Red Planet
Mariner 4 and the end of the myth.
The Far Side of the Moon
Classic Rock legends Pink Floyd designated the far side of the moon The Dark Side of the Moon in a 1973 album release. This unfortunate name has stuck because the far side of the moon is anything but dark. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon released in 1973....
JWST is no comparison to Hubble Space Telescope, here is why.
Astronomers dealt with a major several problems since the inception of astronomy. First, objects give off electromagnetic radiation. The human eye's ability to detect the visible spectrum restricts us from seeing other electromagnetic radiation. Second, distant...
Apollo 15 Hammer and Feather – Gravity at work
Apollo 15 Hammer and Feather drop test Credit NASA Imagine two objects. We connect one light object and one heavier object to each other by a string. Climb to the top of a tower with these two objects. It is a calm, sunny day with little wind. Once you reach the top,...
NASA’s doomsday Asteroid plan taking shape, and they are not calling Bruce Willis this time.
What happens if an asteroid hits Earth? Bruce Willis might have saved the world by blowing up a nuclear device on an asteroid in the film Armageddon. In the movie, Bruce Willis heroically sacrifices his life, breaking the killer Asteroid in two. But this time,...
How to Watch the Starlink Launch
Today is the day SpaceX is targeting to launch. On Wednesday, June 3 at 9:25 p.m. EDT, 1:25 UTC on June 4, SpaceX plans to launch the eighth batch of Starlink satellites. A Falcon 9 liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
How has SpaceX Impacted China’s Space Sector?
How has SpaceX Impacted the Chinese Space Sector? SpaceX's Launches being heard around the world. Credit: SpaceX The year 2020 has been a strange one thus far. While things on earth appear to be moving backwards at an incredible rate, with cities being burned and...
Is China’s inflatable space tech a $400 Million Cost savings for NASA’s SLS?
New spacecraft experience setbacks all the time. SpaceX Starship prototype violently disassembled several times. Boeing launched the CST-100 but ended up in the wrong orbit. China isn’t a stranger to setbacks either. China tested a prototype spacecraft on May 5th,...
NASA’s SLS Mega Rocket’s Engines are Mega Cost…
NASA plans to launch the most powerful rocket sometime in the next few years. The rocket experienced delays and cost overruns which keeps NASA pushing the debut out. The goal is still, bring America along with allies into deep space for longer and farther than ever...
New Space Era: Moore’s Law in Action
Due to the inevitable advance of technology during the last decades, the space industry has been developing and it is recently showing an abrupt growth such that, as it is widely referred, the world is entering a new space era. One of the aspects of this growth shows...
Tethers Unlimited acquired, and you probably don’t know who bought them but you should.
AMERGINT, don’t know them? There is a space company that you might know about. Pay attention because this company just went on a growth spurt. In a series of press releases, the AMERGINT Technologies, Inc.’s story unfolded. The employee-owned company specializes...
Elon Musk’s Starlink growing bigger and bigger
SpaceX launching again this week, if all goes as planned. SpaceX is at it again. Love it or hate it, Starlink is growing again. The company is getting ready to launch the next batch of 60 satellites into orbit in just a few days. The original launch was...
SpaceX and NASA to set a new era of human spaceflight after Apollo
A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 30, 2020. (Photo Credit: David J. Philip/AP) “You want to wake up in the morning and think...
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