‘Space Science’ Archives
Japan Wins Moon Race.
JAPAN WINS MOON RACE. Japan just revealed some of its plans for space exploration including the amazing hope of landing a robot explorer on the moon by 2015 and having an entire base of robots by 2020. - fastcompany.com Email from OldTrekie5: Jesus! The friggin' Space Shuttle's shutting down and we don't have squat to replace it. Are you [...]
EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT: PUT A SOCK IN IT
SEARCH FOR INTELLIGENCE: An Agreement THEM Hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy. Hundreds of billions of galaxies. Lots of stars and lots of planets. Lots . How many restless alien souls are looking this way, wondering what's over here? US Meanwhile, we're looking for planets; we're listening to signals; and we're trying [...]
Uncle Europe Wants YOU!
Image based on a model (Lunar Electric Rover) by Google 3D Warehouse. SpaceScience: Mars Without The Gamma Rays. The European Space Agency's looking for volunteers to spend 520 days pretending they're on a trip to Mars.
BIG FAT ARROWS POINT TO PLANETS (ALMOST)
SpaceScience: Stars Give Themselves Away How do you know if a star has planets? Tediously. In fact, it wasn't until 1995 that we nailed the first such planet (I'm not counting the one we're standing around on, or its neighbors, of course). Even "neighboring" stars are so far away and so bright that you can't [...]
THE SATELLITE COLLISON AND IT’S EFFECTS
As you may have read by now, a Russian satellite tried to occupy the same space at the same time as a satellite that is (was) part of the Iridium system. The collision (why am I going over all this if you've already read it?) spewed space junk - many thousands of pieces - into orbit and in one of the most used portions of near space for satellite [...]
