Today is Asteroid Day (see earlier posting). Here are some items about asteroids and how to prevent any sizable ones from smacking into Earth: ** Live webcast: ** Planetary Society: Happy Asteroid Day! | The Planetary Society Planetary Defense – The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for June, 2017
Here’s the latest Space to Ground report from NASA on happenings related to the International Space Station:
Here is the latest TMRO.tv show: KubOS, An Operating System for CubeSats – Orbit 10.23 – TMRO Marshall Culpepper the CEO & Co-founder of KubOS joins us to talk about their operating system for CubeSats and how they are helping to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
French artist and photographer Cyrielle Gulacsy has taken to making exquisitely precise drawings of spacecraft: This French Artist Gets Her Inspiration from Space Travel | Observer. From her gallery: More of her work can be seen at Cyrielle Gulacsy (@cyrielle_gulacsy) • Instagram photos and videos
An announcement from the National Space Society (NSS): High School Students Take on Challenge to Design World’s First Science-Fiction Inspired Spacecraft Enterprise In Space and SpaceWorks Partner to Provide the Opportunity with ASTRO Program (Washington, DC – June 28, 2017) SpaceWorks […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Friday June 30th is Asteroid Day. Asteroid Day is a global awareness campaign where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids, the impact hazard they may pose, and what we can do to protect our planet, families, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week: 1. Monday, June 26, 2017: 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 pm EDT, 4-5:30 pm CDT): We welcome back Barry Levin to continue our discussions on AI, 4th Industrial Revolution […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Spaceport America Cup college student rocket competition took place last week at the New Mexico spaceport. (See earlier preview posting here.) Over 90 colleges were represented from around the world. The results are in: University of Michigan wins first Spaceport America […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Zimmerman has posted an interesting update on what’s been happening recently with the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers on Mars: Mars rover update: June 23, 2017 | Behind The Black. Since my my May 15th update, the Opportunity science team has […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the latest Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station: And here is a video about the past week at Kennedy Space Center: ====
Some additional items about the total solar eclipse over North America on August 21st (see earlier posting): ** Astro Maven Rick Boozer writes about how Weird Things Happen with a Total Solar Eclipse. For example: Long before totality (when the Moon is only […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Snapshots from deep space: Jupiter’s many colors, kinks in Saturn’s rings, & clouds on Titan
Some recent imagery from NASA spacecraft: ** Jupiter’s Clouds of Many Colors | NASA (Click for larger image) NASA’s Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this image on May […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Video: Kepler spots 219 more exoplanet candidates including 10 Earth-sized ones in habitable zones
More exoplanet candidates have been spotted by the Kepler space observatory including 10 that are nearly the size of Earth and orbit in the habitable zone of their stars. The press release below describes the latest findings and here is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week: 1. Monday, June 19, 2017: 2-3:30 pm PDT (5-6:30 pm EDT, 4-5:30 pm CDT): Chris Stone is back for updates with DOD and National Security Space matters. 2. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the latest episode of TMRO.tv weekly show: The intersection of art, science and space – Orbit 10.22 – TMRO Estevan Guzman one of the Astronomical Illustrator / Animators at Griffith Observatory joins us to talk about cosmic art created […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the latest Space to Ground report from NASA on recent activities related to the International Space Station: Here is more footage of the Russian Progress cargo ship approaching and then docking to the ISS: ====
A total solar eclipse will pass over North America on August 21st. Below are some videos and web resources for the event. [ Update: Astro Maven Rick Boozer points me to an eclipse viewing event that he will be hosting in South […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Universe Today hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
A new report from the ESO (European Southern Observatory): VST Captures Three-In-One Two of the sky’s more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbour in this enormous new three gigapixel image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST). On […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
College students and high school educators participate next week in rocket programs hosted by NASA’s Wallops Island Space Flight Facility: Students and Educators Become Rocket Scientists for a Week at Wallops Have you wondered what it would be like to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…