Here’s the latest newsletter from the B612 Foundation, which is dedicated to protecting earth from a the disaster of a large asteroid or comet impact on earth : Sentinel and Beyond: The Sentinel Mission Newsletter! Vol. 15. The Sentinel Mission is their plan […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest weekly report from NASA on activities aboard the International Space Station:
Telerobotics, i.e. controlling a robot from a distance, could be useful in space for, say, asteroid sampling in which an astronaut in a nearby spacecraft controls a robot on the surface of the object. A mission to Mars might initially involve astronauts […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We don’t yet have self-aware robots or low cost transportation to orbit but we do have iPhones and Google search. The latter two are just as sci-fi as the former two technologies for someone who grew up in the 1960s. The future […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An animation of the Island 3 type in-space cylindrical colony proposed by Gerard K. O’Neill in the 1970s: Island Three – An Animation by Steve Gunn – Project Ion
Catching up with recent presentations to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group. The presentation materials are posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive for the following 3 talks. * On-Orbit Servicing: Telepresence and the DEOS Simulator, Jordi Artigas , DLR – […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Sunday May 25th, The Space Show will present a special video webinar program on the topic of using rotation to provide artificial gravity. Joe Carroll will discuss his ideas on using tethers for such rotating systems. WEBINAR: The Sunday, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s NASA’s latest Space to Ground report on activities aboard the International Space Station:
The ESA reports on TV transmission using the amateur radio station on the ISS: Ham video premiers on Space Station 5 May 2014: Astronauts on the International Space Station can now talk with people on Earth with video using simple transmitters. ‘Ham […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Life’s spread into the solar system may have gotten inadvertent transport via earth’s spacecraft: Extremophiles, Surveyor III, and the Possibility of Life Beyond Earth? – Roger Launius’s Blog Hardy little space travelers could colonize Mars, space station research shows that — […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Slides and movies are available in a zip file and there is an audio (mp3) available for the talk, Continuum Trunk and Tentacle […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground report on activities aboard the International Space Station:
On Wednesday at the International Space Station: … Expedition 39 Flight Engineers Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson of NASA conducted a spacewalk April 23 to replace a backup computer relay box on the station’s S0 (s-zero) truss. The relay box, which failed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (ppt) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Planetary Exploration and the Plutonium-238 Connection, Ralph McNutt , […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (pptx) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Evaluating International Collaboration for Human Exploration Beyond LEO by Emanuele […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (ppt) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Critical Risks for Extending Human Spaceflight by Mark Shelhamer, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA’s Asteroid Initiative to redirected a small asteroid into the Earth-Moon system has not quite gotten off the ground yet, at least in terms of broad political support. However, with the Kerbal Space Program you can now go retrieve an asteroid on your own: ‘Kerbal […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Development of an in-space infrastructure, which includes fuel depots, spacecraft refueling and repairs, etc., is essential for cost-effective space development. Here is a video about the Robotic Refueling Mission at NASA Goddard’s Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office: Caption: Goddard Space Flight Center’s Jill […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A skin-tight body suit developed by a group at King’s College London led by Dr David Green will be tested on the International Space Station to see if it counter-acts some of the detrimental effects of weightlessness : ‘Skinsuit’ to help […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides and videos (zip) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Defending the Earth From Asteroids: Meeting the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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