Aerospace

Biosignatures: When Will We Find Signs Of Life In Space?

A new paper believes detection of atmospheric signatures for a few potentially habitable planets could occur before 2030. Does that mean life on other planets? Perhaps. perhaps not. We could be first in the universe, even though mathematically we should no ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2018 - 7:48am

The James Webb Space Telescope Continues To Bleed, Other NASA Experiments Will Continue To Hemorrhage

Science 2.0 began 11 years ago, the year that the James Webb Space Telescope was supposed to be completed, but there was no real cause for alarm about the delays until 2010, when it was three years late and $1.5 billion over budget. Not many in science com ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 27 2018 - 3:41pm

P120C- Largest Rocket Motor Ever Built Goes To The Test Stand

The P120C solid-fuel rocket motor that will power Ariane 6 and Vega-C at liftoff has been transferred to the test stand for its first hot firing at Europe’s Spaceport. P120C will replace P80 as the first stage motor of Vega-C, which is expected to debut in ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2018 - 10:19am

The Infant Universe In 3-D- Now With 4,000 More Young Galaxies

In the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and in a presentation at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool, a team announced one of the largest 3D maps of the infant Universe. And along with it almost 4,000 earl ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2018 - 9:08am

We Can Now Hear Sound On Mars

NASA's InSight experiment landed on Mars November 26th after traveling 300 million miles over seven months. Though it is there to analyze seismic activity. its seismometer and air pressure sensor and picked up different vibrations on Dec. 1st.  The sl ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 11 2018 - 2:17pm

Elf On A Shelf Goes To Space

Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors may not be certain (1) man landed on the moon but if photos and broadcasts of that are not enough, he won't be fooled by this picture of an Elf On The Shelf (Jingle, my wife calls him; Kegel the Christmas Elf, ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 11 2018 - 2:40pm

Pink Penguin Poop Can Be Seen From Space

Adélies penguin species may disagree that we're the apex species on earth; they don't spend a lot of time analyzing our poop after all. But using Landsat satellite images, a team of scholars hope to use poop to sound another warning about clmate ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2018 - 4:01pm

50 Years Ago Today, Apollo 8 Soared Into Space- And Cicero Cheered

Half a century of Christmases ago, the NASA space mission Apollo 8 became the first manned craft to leave low Earth orbit, atop the unprecedentedly powerful Saturn V rocket, and head out to circumnavigate another celestial body, making 11 orbits of the mo ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 21 2018 - 7:00am

In 2021, Beans Will Be Grown In Space

Traveling to Mars is a ridiculous idea outside anything but "adventure" yet the U.S. administration under President Obama scrubbed his predecessor's return to the moon and replaced it with a program bearing his name, going to the red planet. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 9 2019 - 3:01pm

Earth And The Dark Side Of The Moon, All In One Picture

In January, the Chang’e-4 lunar probe landed on dark side of the Moon but it's a tiny relay satellite that is getting all of the buzz today.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 6 2019 - 3:52pm