First Image from new LDCM (Landsat) satellite released.

Continuing the longest Earth observation mission in history NASA and the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have…

12 years ago

Congress Mulls Asteroid Protection for the Most Important Planet – Earth

On March 19th 2013 the U.S. Congress heard testimony from NASA about the potential of the most important planet in the…

12 years ago

Europe and Russia Agree on Mars Mission Partnership

A new partnership between the European Space Agency and the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, has been signed to forming…

12 years ago

Mars Curiosity goes into safe mode due to software error

New 'Safe Mode' Status of Curiosity Expected to be Brief There have been no new images from the rover due…

12 years ago

Blogging and the answer to the ultimate question

Hello friends of KnowledgeOrb. This post is a little off topic from the normal space and science topics we usually…

12 years ago

SpaceX rocket hovers 80 meters, but is it a good idea?

There is an old saying, he bit off more than he could chew. This could be the case with the…

12 years ago

Curiosity Rover Recovery Progressing, No New Images Yet.

The Mars rover Curiosity is still not in normal science data collection mode since a memory error prompted the flight…

12 years ago

Interesting Pictures of Earth-Moon Eclipsing Sun from SDO

File this under interesting trivia. On March 2, 2013, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) entered its semiannual eclipse season, a…

12 years ago

ISS Launch from Virginia Scheduled for April

Test Flight of Orbital's Antares Rocket Scheduled for April 16-18 A test flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket from…

12 years ago

Strong Coronal Mass Ejection Hits Earth 3/17/13

The last few days have seen many space weather warnings and alerts. The root of all of these was activity…

12 years ago