Fraser Cain

What is an Electric Sail? Another Exotic Way to Explore the Solar System

Space scientists are considering how they can catch the charged particles streaming from the Sun with electric sails as a…

7 years ago

Weekly Space Hangout – Oct 25, 2017: Dr. John Charles of NASA’s Human Research Program

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…

7 years ago

Bigelow and ULA are Sending a Habitat to Lunar Orbit by 2022

Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance announced on Tuesday that they'll be sending their own inflatable habitat to lunar orbit…

7 years ago

Where Do Comets Come From? Exploring the Oort Cloud

Some comets orbit the Sun on a regular basis, but others come in from deep space, a region known as…

7 years ago

Weekly Space Hangout – Oct 18, 2017: Weekly News Roundup

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…

7 years ago

Weekly Space Hangout – Oct 11, 2017: SpaceX From The Ground Up by Chris Prophet

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…

7 years ago

Weekly Space Hangout -Oct 4, 2017: CosmoQuest’s Image Detective Citizen Science Project

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…

7 years ago

Matt William’s New Sci-Fi Book is Out: The Cronian Incident

Our own Matt Williams has his first published novel out, the Cronian Incident. A mystery novel based on the future…

7 years ago

Weekly Space Hangout -Sept 27, 2017: Dr. Jason Schneiderman of NASA’s HERA Mission

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…

7 years ago

Russia Says They’ll Be Pitching in on the Deep Space Gateway

The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos and NASA announced today that Russian will be contributing modules and a docking system to…

7 years ago