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Displaying items by tag: Space

Wednesday, 19 November 2008 03:12

No TCP/IP for NASA's deep space Internet

It's been a decade in the making, but NASA has successfully tested a new deep-space communications network modelled on the Internet. Images have been transmitted to and from a spacecraft 20 million miles away.

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Friday, 14 November 2008 10:35

Astronomical first: Hubble sees an exosolar planet!

For the first time, astronomers have directly observed a planet orbiting a star other than our own Sun. The historic image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Friday, 14 November 2008 01:47

Chandrayaan-1 in final orbit, ready for work

Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 has reached its operational orbit around the Moon. Next step: release the impactor!

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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 22:02

Australia says it's Lost In Space

Australia’s report “Lost in Space? Setting a new direction for Australia's space science and industry sector” may mean that a national space program will soon be established to coordinate the country's various space-related projects.

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Thursday, 06 November 2008 12:04

India's Chandrayaan-1 heads for the Moon

India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft is en route for the Moon. The unmanned craft should go into lunar orbit this weekend.

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Sunday, 26 October 2008 04:11

A quantum of solace in space

James Bond has a pretty stressful life, no doubt about that. But at least 007 can see a therapist when all the killing and snogging get too much. Astronauts have no such luxury. No, not with killing and snogging, but the access to a therapist. That may all be about to change...

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Saturday, 18 October 2008 19:08

Space really stinks

Steve Pearce is one of the leading UK experts on smell. Which is probably why NASA asked him to recreate the smell of outer space. You might be surprised at the results so far...

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Sunday, 12 October 2008 15:17

World's first 'œ2nd-gen' astronaut and games pioneer lifts off to ISS!

Richard Garriott, son of Owen Garriot, a US Shuttle and Skylab astronaut, and co-founder of gaming company Origin Systems, is the world’s sixth space tourist, the world’s first second-generation astronaut and the first to truly make the US $30m flight a commercial venture that could eventually pay for itself.

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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 18:34

Norton enters the space race. No, really!

We know that competition in the security software market is intense, and marketing can make all the difference. But usually promotional tools run to the chance to win a free copy of the latest software, or maybe a PC to run it on. Symantec, however, is offering to send someone into space...

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Saturday, 04 October 2008 16:00

Have you seen Uranus recently?

No seriously, stop sniggering at the back, have you? Apparently this week is the best time to go looking for Uranus without the use of a telescope...

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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 06:06

Simonyi schedules second space sortie

Former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi is planning a second trip into space.

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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 03:03

Jules Verne ATV completes mission with fiery re-entry

Jules Verne, the first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), has completed its mission with a controlled destructive re-entry over the South Pacific.

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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 08:46

Solar wind dropping, says ESA

The solar wind emanating from the Sun has fallen to the lowest level observed since accurate readings have been made.

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Thursday, 28 August 2008 18:09

Worms in space: NASA confirms International Space Station infected

NASA has confirmed that a laptop aboard the International Space Station has been infected with the W32.Gammima.AG worm, and admits this isn't the first time it has happened...

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Thursday, 14 August 2008 20:44

With Einstein's ok: Star Trek-type spacecraft can travel at warp speeds

American physicists Gerald Cleaver and Richard Obousy are proposing a “hypothetical propulsion device” that could travel faster than the speed of light without violating any laws of physics. However, we’ll have to ask Scotty for enormous amounts of dilithium crystals!

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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 02:57

Musk's SpaceX Falcon rocket fails again

The third launch of the Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 1 rocket failed to reach orbit after the first stage failed to separate. "It was obviously a big disappointment not to reach orbit," said company founder Elon Musk.

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Thursday, 31 July 2008 04:08

Mars Express sends 'sharpest ever' photos of Phobos

The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe has transmitted the sharpest and most detailed images of Phobos, one of the two Martian moons.

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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 20:12

NASA turns 50 with a vision for space exploration

On July 29, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Act was signed into law by then-U.S. president Dwight “Ike” D. Eisenhower. Two months later, NASA began operations with about eighty employees. Today, NASA is the world’s leading explorer and researcher of our Earth, solar system, and the universe.

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Saturday, 05 July 2008 20:06

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft finds lopsided shape of solar system

Voyager 2 is flying near the edge of the solar system. It has sent back important data to NASA showing that the heliosphere (the volume of highly charged particles blown out in all directions from the Sun) is lopsided.

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