New Solar Mission (IRIS) Rescheduled to Launch June 27
A Pegasus Rocket is set to drop from the Orbital Sciences L-1011 carrier aircraft with NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission. Launch is set for 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27…
ION engine runs for over 5 years, Beam me up scotty
(NASA) – No there is no Starship Enterprise but the famed backup to the warp drive, the Ion Engines are very much a reality. NASA’s advanced ion propulsion engine has…
Rare alignment allows Hubble to become a planet hunter
(Source Space Telescope Science Institute) – With the probable demise of the Kepler mission due a failure of the components used to point the spacecraft, the reaction wheels, Hubble is helping…
Supermoon view-able this weekend, Live Webcast
On Sunday (June 23) when the Moon rises it will appear the largest possible this year. No you will not be able to see the lunar lander but it should…
Stand on Mars in Virtual Billion Pixel Viewer
An impressive tool, available to anyone on the internet, has been published by NASA which allows you to virtually stand on mars, take a look around, and take a closer…
SLS Starts Preliminary Design Review
All programs undergo certain milestones as they progress. One of the earliest is the Preliminary Design Review or PDR. This review process includes meticulous, detailed analyses of the entire launch…
Hubble image shows collision of galaxies causing them to warp
In this interesting image of two galaxies 326 million light years away, a collision between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy is making one of them warp into this shape. The…
SMILE, Cassini to take picture of Earth from Saturn
The Cassini spacecraft which recently celebrated 15 years of success will take a picture of Earth on July 19, 2013. The Earth will appear as a small, pale blue dot between…
