WISE Asteroid/Comet Hunter Mission Extended Reborn as NEOWISE
What do you do with a perfectly functional and succesful spacecraft who’s primary mission has ended? You make good use of the resource and taxpayer’s money and find a new…
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Our lives are about to change – Graphene
There are times in history when something big happens and you just know our lives are going to change. Edison and the light bulb, the personal computer and soon we…
Pan-Starrs 1 Telescope images first planet without a sun
An international team of astronomers has discovered an exotic young planet that is not orbiting a star. This free-floating planet, named PSO J318.5-22 was found using the Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) wide-field survey…
Kepler-Spitzer give first look at clouds on exoplanet
For the first time we now have an idea what the clouds look like on a planet outside our own solar system. This is an amazing find, To think that…
Japan JAXA set to launch new rocket September 14
After an automatic abort on the first launch attempt of Japans new Epsilon-1 rocket from the Uchinoura Space Center a new launch day of September 14th has been selected. JAXA…
China to launch Lunar Rover to Moon by Years End
China announced that it will launch a rover to the moon by the end of 2013. A six-wheeled lunar vehicle has been under development since 2002 at the Shanghai Aerospace System…
WISE Spacecraft brought out if Hibernation to Hunt Asteroids
Probe Will Assist Agency in Search for Candidates to Explore (Source NASA) – A NASA spacecraft that discovered and characterized tens of thousands of asteroids throughout the solar system before being…
NASA Kepler Exo-Planet Hunter Restoration Attempts Fail
NASA is now looking for a new mission for Kepler. This mission would use only two reaction wheels now that attempts to revive one of the failed wheels has not…
