GOES 13 Weather Satellite Fails
With the recent EF5 Tornado in and loss of life in Moore Oklahoma the importance of continuous coverage by weather satellites is even more important and evident. One of the…
Category Archives: Space
Kepler Reaction Wheel Fails, May be Mission Ending
The vaunted Kepler Spacecraft, responsible for the discovery of hundreds of exoplanets, has experienced the failure of it’s final reaction wheel. The spacecraft has four reaction wheels and needs at…
FERMI captures record setting Gamma Ray Burst
(Source NASA) – A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world. The eruption, which is classified as…
Photos of Earth from Smartphones in Orbit
PhoneSats take images of Earth Launched aboard an Antares rocket on April 21, 2013 these pictures were taken by three PhoneSats , or nano-satellites comprised mainly of off the shelf smart phones….
Lyrids Meteor Shower 2013, Viewing and Information.
The Lyrid meteor shower is due to arrive April 22nd. Expect to see approximately 10-20 meteors per hour at the peak of the shower. The event begins on April 16…
Hubble has found the farthest supernova so far.
Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova (Source NASA) – The Hubble Space Telescope which last year saw further back in time than ever before and helped detect…
Cosmic Crash 2022: Asteroids vs. Space Probes
(Source: TheOuterSpace.org) – Cosmic Crash 2022 is the term being used to describe scientist’s plan to intentionally smash a spacecraft into a massive asteroid in 2022 in hopes that they can take…
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 period of three weeks when Earth blocks its view of…
