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By Phillip Toledo EBC Florida Bureau ATLANTA (Eagle News) – Residents of Atlanta, Georgia caught a rare glimpse of space travel to the Red Planet this summer at The Battery at Sun Trust Park as the Kennedy Space Center kicked off the east coast summer tour of its Mars Rover concept vehicle. Curious children and adults were able to see a prototype or concept of what an actual Mars Rover would look like. The exhibit […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Astronomers have finally solved the mystery of peculiar signals coming from a nearby star, a story that sparked intense public speculation this week that perhaps, finally, alien life had been found. It hasn’t. The signal, which has been formally named “Weird!” was interference from a distant satellite. Of course, astronomers said all along that extra-terrestrials were quite far at the bottom of the list […]
Reuters — The first images taken by camera drone robot Int-Ball have just been released. The spherical drone has been deployed by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), on board the module Kibo on the International Space Station (ISS). It arrived at ISS on June 4. Int-Ball is made from 3D-printed parts and existing drone technology. It is controlled by researchers at the JAXA Tsukuba Space Center. Taking photographs and video can take up 10 […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — An imaging satellite and 72 micro-satellites were launched into orbit Friday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency Roscosmos and research center Glavcosmos announced. The Soyuz 2-1A rocket successfully lifted off at 0643 GMT with the satellite payload, Roscosmos said in a statement. According to Russian news agencies, Glavcosmos, charged with putting the satellites into orbit, later reported that by 1441 GMT all the satellites had successfully separated. […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — An unmanned National Aeronautics Space Administration spacecraft is about to fly over a massive storm raging on Jupiter, in a long-awaited a journey that could shed new light on the forces driving the planet’s Great Red Spot. The flyby of the Juno spacecraft, surveiling the 10,000-mile-wide (16,000-kilometer-wide) storm, is scheduled for 9:55 pm Monday (0155 GMT Tuesday). “Jupiter’s mysterious Great Red Spot is probably the best-known feature of Jupiter,” said […]
FLORIDA, United States (Reuters) – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an Intelsat communications satellite from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on Wednesday evening (July 5). The rocket delivered Intelsat 35e to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO), according to SpaceX. SpaceX said due to mission requirements, it would not try to land Falcon 9’s first stage after the launch. Two launches were scrubbed this week. On Monday, the […]
TEXAS, United States (Reuters) – The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft was released from the International Space Station on Monday (July 3) in preparation for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with over 4000 pounds (1814 kg) of cargo and experimental samples. Images from NASA showed a robotic arm detaching from the ISS and navigating the separation in preparation for the Dragon’s return to Earth. Astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer commanded the release of the […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) – SpaceX called off a satellite launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida less than 10 seconds before liftoff Sunday (July 2) because of a technical issue with the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. Falcon 9 engineer John Insprucker said, “We’ll take a look at what the data is and then figure out what our next launch opportunity is going to be.”
Reuters — Researchers at Stanford University are taking on space debris with an adhesive that mimics the way gecko lizards cling to surfaces without falling. United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration estimates that more than half a million pieces of space junk – from defunct satellites to marble-sized fragments like lens covers and copper wire – are orbiting Earth. Millions more are too small to track. And because they’re hurtling around at […]
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, United States (Reuters) – SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sunday (June 25) carrying 10 communications satellites to low-Earth orbit, the company said on its website. “This is the second set of 10 satellites in a series of 75 total satellites that SpaceX will launch,” it said in a statement. The launch is for Iridium, a provider of voice and data communications. […]
HOUSTON, United States (Reuters) – United States Vice President Mike Pence congratulated America’s newest astronaut candidates at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Wednesday (June 7). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the candidates were chosen from a pool of 18,000 applicants “to carry the torch for future human space exploration.” Pence described the NASA candidates as “elites” who carry “the hopes and dreams of the American people.” “The new astronaut candidates could one […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — SpaceX’s first-ever recycled spaceship arrived Monday at the International Space Station, two days after the unmanned Dragon cargo capsule launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Live images on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s television showed the spaceship approaching the orbiting outpost, then being grabbed with the station’s robotic arm at 9:52 am (1352 GMT). “Capture complete,” said NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who operated the robotic arm […]
