Bob Zimmerman has an interesting report on a visit to the Titan Missile Museum near Tucson, Arizona: Visiting a nuclear missile silo – Behind The Black.
I’ll note that the company Frontier Astronautics LLC is located in a decommissioned Atlas-E Missile Silo in Wyoming. So such sites do have some utility after all.
Copenhagen Suborbitals posts the second installment of their video reports on their “Mission Control and Sea Launch Support Ship Vostok”:
Caption:
Vostok will provide Mission Control, Rocket Trajectory Tracking and Spacecraft Recovery capabilities to Copenhagen Suborbitals.
Outfitting of the vessel for its Sea Launch support role is being undertaken at present.
The Mission Control and Rocket Trajectory Tracking roles require a host of radio gear, antennas and electronic equipment to be fitted to the vessel.
The latest NASA Curiosity Rover Report (Mar. 15, 2013) is titled, Rover Hits Paydirt
Here’s is a video of a recent panel discussion at the SETI Institute on the Search for Exolife:
Bob Zimmerman reports on the latest space news during regular weekly slots (usually Tuesday and Thursdays) on the John Batchelor radio program. See the iTunes free Podcast for links to the latest shows.
Tuesday March 12, 2013:
Segment 1: science and space
1. No life found in Lake Vostok, contradicting previous reports.
2. No life found in Gale Crator by Curiosity, though the conditions were right.
2. Grasshopper flies again! Also, Dragon has been unloaded at ISS.
3. The budget battle at NASA.
Segment 2: environment and climate:
1. Fukushima radiation not as bad as expected.
2. The dirty little secret of electric cars.
3. The tropical rain forests will not be harmed by global warming.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Segment 1: Science
1. ALMA, the world’s largest telescope, opens today.
2. Pluto might have 15 moons.
3. WISE has found the third closest star system, a binary system only 6.5 light years away.
4. Russia satellite damaged by Chinese space junk from its ASAT test.
Segment 2: Space exploration
1. Europe has inked a partnership deal with Russia for its ExoMars mission, replacing the U.S.
2. China says it will do a re-entry test of its lunar sample return mission in 2015.
3. Boeing considers building a civilian X-37B.
