Images from the European Proba-V earth observation smallsat shows changes in African during the rainy season: Space in Images – 2017 – 07 – Proba-V monitors African Sahel ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite reveals the seasonal changes in Africa’s sub-Saharan Sahel, with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for July, 2017
The Urban Astronomer hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
Robert Picardo hosts the latest Planetary Post report from the Planetary Society: Starshade & Eclipses – The Planetary Post with Robert Picardo The Total Solar Eclipse on August 21st is coming up! We’re getting ready with the U.S. National Parks Service […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week: 1. Monday, July 31, 2017: 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): We welcome back Mark Sundahl, note space attorney for different perspectives on hot space […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A selection of sci-fi film shorts: “The Secret Number” by Colin Levy – “A psychiatrist is compelled by his patient, an institutionalized mathematician, to consider the existence of a secret integer between three and four. Doctor Simon Tomlin, a psychiatrist […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest Space to Ground report from NASA on happenings related to the International Space Station: Today a Soyuz rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kasakhstan a European, an American, and a Russian to the ISS to bring its […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hubble Telescope observes two galaxies Galactic David and Goliath The gravitational dance between two galaxies in our local neighbourhood has led to intriguing visual features in both as witnessed in this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The tiny […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): A Tale of Three Stellar Cities Using new observations from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, astronomers have discovered three different populations of young stars within the Orion Nebula Cluster. This unexpected discovery adds […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On August 21st, the Kronos Quartet will create music out of the solar eclipse in an event sponsored by San Francisco’s Exploratorium and organized by composer Wayne Grim : Eclipse Sonification with Kronos Quartet Offers a Chance to Listen to “Music of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a video of a recent SETI Institute event highlighting the release of the book, Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Jill has been a pioneer in SETI research – it has been and still is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest TMRO.tv live program is in the archive: Our first look at CubeCab – Orbit 10.26 – TMRO CubeCab CEO Adrian Tymes joins us to talk about their plans to create a small sat launcher and the new deal struck […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jordin Kare – laser propulsion expert, physicist, rocket designer & filksinger – dies at age 60
Physicist, rocket designer, laser propulsion proponent, co-founder of LaserMotive, and music composer Jordin Kare passed away last week: Remembering Jordin Kare (1956-2017) – Centauri-Dreams) We’ve just lost a fine interstellar thinker. Jordin Kare has died of aortic valve failure at age 60. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week: 1. Monday, July 24, 2017: 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): We welcome back Ken Davidian on entrepreneurism, NewSpace, commercial space. 2. Tuesday, July 25 , […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Spaceweather.com reports on another massive explosion from the sun, this time on the farside: Earlier today, July 23rd, a spectacular CME emerged from the farside of the sun. Coronagraphs onboard the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) tracked the fast-moving cloud […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On July 14th, a Russian Soyuz rocket launched a large government earth observation satellite as its primary payload and 72 small satellites, including 48 for the earth observation company Planet (formerly Planet Labs). Planet has something in the range of 150 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Planetary Society has released three short videos about the solar eclipse over the US on August 21st: Bill Nye explains the basics of a solar eclipses, the path of totality, and how to safely view a solar eclipse with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Videos: “Space to Ground” ISS report + Microgravity bio-research + Peggy Whitson’s exercise machine
Here is the latest Space to Ground weekly report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station: Here are a couple more videos released this week by NASA starting with astronaut/molecular biologist Kate Rubins talking about the benefits […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Sotheby’s space memorabilia auction (see earlier posting) went off on Thursday and there were a number of : Apollo 11 moon rock bag sells for $1.8M at Sotheby’s space auction | collectSPACE. The most prominent item for sale was the Apollo […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been 48 years since humans first walked on the Moon and 45 years too long since humans walked on the Moon. July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind July 1969. It’s a little over eight years since the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hubble Space Telescope makes a cool time-lapse video of the Martian moon Phobos circling the Red Planet: NASA’s Hubble Sees Martian Moon Orbiting the Red Planet When the Hubble Space Telescope observed Mars near opposition in May, 2016, a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…