Michael Clark describes the SpaceX reusable first stage tests:
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Here is his music, which he records under the name Orbital Transit:
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Video: Fireworks as seen from a drone
Hope everyone is enjoying the Independence Day weekend. Here is a cool view of a fireworks show filmed by a drone flying in and around it (via The Unwanted Blog):
Copenhagen Suborbitals update
According to this recent report from Copenhagen Suborbitals, the big HEAT-2X rocket won’t fly this year: HEAT-2X and then what? – Copenhagen Suborbitals.
Ceres and Vesta to have historic close encounter
The two largest asteroids – Ceres and Vesta – will appear to have a close approach this weekend: Watch Historic Meeting of Two Monster Asteroids in the Sky This Weekend – News Watch
Not since their discovery more than 200 years ago has anyone observed these two giants of the main asteroid belt pair up so closely in the heavens.
Since spring, keen-eyed sky-watchers using nothing more than binoculars or small telescopes have followed the cosmic duo. The two asteroids have flown in tandem, looping across the Virgo constellation now visible in the southwestern evening skies.
Ceres is actually now referred to as a dwarf planet since it had enough mass to pull itself into a sphere.
The online observatory Slooh.com will have a special live webcast to watch the event.
See also Small solar system targets take center stage – Astronomy.com.
Colonies on the clouds of Venus
Living atop the clouds of Venus might be feasible and offer some advantages over the surface of Mars: