Recent studies find that a large solar eruption in 2012 could have fried vast swaths of electronic systems worldwide if it had impacted the earth: Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012 – NASA Science Newt Gingrich’s Space Nightmare Almost Came […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s an account of the ISEE-3 Reboot Project in the NY Times: Rebooting ISEE-3: Space for All – NYTimes.com Government space missions are expensive. New private-sector space ventures always seem to involve billionaires. Yet we achieved results by raising funds a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The sun seems to be taking a nap: Spaceweather.com – July.16.14 WHERE DID ALL THE SUNSPOTS GO? This week, solar activity has sharply declined. There are only two numbered sunpots on the Earth-facing side of the sun, and each is so small you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I posted earlier that the reports that the ISEE-3 Reboot Project had given up on restarting the propulsion system were premature. Project member Dennis Wingo gives a detailed account of the crowd-sourced investigation into what is going on with the thrusters and into possible solutions to the failure […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ISEE-3 Reboot Project (see posts here, here, and here) appeared to suffer a serious and irreversible setback this week when they were unable to fire the propulsion system to change the spacecraft’s trajectory. While hydrazine fuel still remained in the tank, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Zimmerman gives the latest update on the suns activities: The sun continues its ramp down - Behind The Black === Bookmark the HobbySpace Sun and Space Weather page and check daily on what’s happening with our nearest star.
Congratulations to the ISEE-3 Reboot Project team on successfully firing the thrusters of the 36 year old International Cometary Explorer to spin it back up: ISEE-3 Engines Fired For Spin-Up – Space College Additional ISEE-3 Spin-up Confirmation – Space College ISEE-3 Current Location 3 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Zimmerman describes the what happend last month in the solar cycle’s ups and downs: Is the Sun’s strange double-peaked solar maximum finally ending? - Behind The Black Find lots more real and near real time imagery and data from space on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A scan of news and blog posts at Zooniverse citizen science projects: The Sunspotter project was introduced quietly earlier in the year and the first round of classifications has been declared a success and a new one is underway: Become a Sunspotter and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the International Space Station’s orbit follows above the line between day and night on earth, the sun will never go completely below the horizon. ISS astronaut Reid Wiseman created a 6 second looping video he made from images over such a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ISEE-3 Reboot Project (see the recent post ISEE-3 Reboot Project takes command of the spacecraft) continues to make progress in the effort to resurrect and re-target NASA’s International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3) spacecraft, launched in 1978 to study the earth’s magnetosphere but re-targeted to study […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A great look at a huge burst of energy and mass from the sun’s corona courtesy of NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) : A First for NASA’s IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material A coronal mass ejection, or CME, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ISEE-3 Reboot Project (see earlier post) is now talking with the spacecraft : We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft The ISEE-3 Reboot Project is pleased to announce that our team has established two-way communication with the ISEE-3 spacecraft and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve written about the ISEE-3 Reboot Project effort by a private non-profit group to reconnect with NASA’s 35 year old International Sun-Earth Explorers (ISSE) spacecraft and direct it back to its original solar science mission. The group recently carried out a successful crowd-funding campaign to pay for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A reader points me to this video of a presentation given in the UK by NASA’s Chief Scientist, Dr Ellen Stofan and Deputy Chief Technologist, Jim Adams for the Royal Institution of Great Britain. They give an overview of NASA’s plans […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a cool interactive graphic connecting a selection of NASA unmanned science missions with their research goals : Unmanned NASA Missions – WikiBrains Click here for larger display
I’ve written about an effort to reconnect with the 36 year old International Sun-Earth Explorers (ISSE) spacecraft and direct it back to its original solar science mission: Reawakening and returning a 36 year old spacecraft to its original mission ICE/ISEE-3 spacecraft signals […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) imaged a big solar flare this week : Science of the sun: NASA releases solar flare footage – BBC (includes video). And here are a couple more videos of solar activity from the SDO Youtube gallery: Caption: Powerful […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sunspotter is a Zooniverse citizen science project in which participants ” help to organize sunspot images in order of complexity to better understand and predict how the Sun’s magnetic activity affects us on Earth. The Sunspotter blog includes interesting items such as this Space […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Earth nearly got hit with a huge blast from the sun in July of 2012 that could have knocked out electrical systems for months or longer: Dodging the Trillion-Dollar Bullet – Citizens in Space Observations of an extreme storm in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
|
|
_200x157.jpg){kind=tracking} Try the Satellite Tracking Tool from BINARY SPACE hosted here at HobbySpace. |
 Sun and Space Weather Real time images, charts and data displays |
 Aurora, Meteors & Fireballs Real time images, charts and data displays |
 Check out Virtual Space 3D reports and other videos on the HobbySpace Youtube Channel. |
NewSpace Watch
