Satellites
Ariane 5 Rocket Lifts Off for Final Launch of 2010
One final rocket launch in 2010 took place as Arianespace successfully launched the Hispasat 1E and KOREASAT 6 telecommunication satellites…
SOHO Finds Its 2000th Comet
[/caption] From a NASA Press Release: As people on Earth celebrate the holidays and prepare to ring in the New…
Zombie Satellite Now Under Control
[/caption] A geostationary satellite that become a “zombie” earlier this year and stopped communicating with ground controllers has now finally…
Video: Satellite Views of the “Christmas Blizzard”
The Christmas Blizzard of 2010 dumped up to 30 inches of snow in the northeast United States, with winds gusts…
Music From Space: DIY Satellite Will Capture Sounds of Ionosphere
[/caption] For a space geek, the ultimate do-it-yourself project would be building a satellite in your basement. Astronomer and writer…
Satellite Images Show Dueling Snowstorms in the US and UK
[/caption] OK, let's duke it out. Who had it worse this past week as far as wintery weather: the entire…
NASA’s Nanosail-D Released into the Winds of Space
[/caption]Despite being an idea rattling around inside the head of engineers and space enthusiasts for over 40 years, solar sails…
Exoplanet Discovery Lists top 500
[/caption] It was only a little over a year ago that the 400th extrasolar planet was confirmed, but time flies…
Russia Wants to Build “Sweeper” to Clean up Space Debris
[/caption] Russia is looking to build a $2 billion orbital “pod” that would sweep up satellite debris from space around…
The Fall and Rise of ‘X’
[/caption] They are at the very edge of current U.S. technological capabilities; one is a supposedly mothballed technology test-bed, the…