| Falcon Rocket Meets Fiery End |
If your following the Falcon launch, this page is pretty cool: http://www.spacex.com/F9-001.php
So, after it’s successful launch more than three weeks ago, the dormant upper stage of the first Falcon 9 rocket plunged back into the atmosphere this weekend at 0050 GMT Sunday. The vehicle should have entered into the atmosphere and burned up over Iraq [...]
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| Boeing Building Space Shuttle Replacement |
Boeing is hard at work developing a new capsule-based spaceship (CST-100) to fly people to and from the International Space Station. Boeing is developing a new capsule-based spaceship to fly people and supplies to and from the International Space Station. The capsule is funded by the company’s recent $18 million award from NASA to advance [...]
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| Ten Cool Things Seen in the First Year of LRO |
Having officially reached lunar orbit on June 23rd, 2009, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has now marked one full year on its mission to scout the moon. Maps and datasets collected by LRO’s state-of-the-art instruments will form the foundation for all future lunar exploration plans, as well as be critical to scientists working to better [...]
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| Japanese IKAROS Successfully Deploys Solar Sail June 13, 2010 |
The Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator “IKAROS” launched by the H-IIA F17 began to deploy its sail on June 3 (Japan Standard Time, JST,) and on June 10 (JST,) JAXA confirmed the proper extension of the sail and power generation by the thin film solar cells at about 7.7 million km from the Earth. We [...]
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| Japanese Space Capsule Landing In South Australia |
Scientists from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and from NASA and the ANU are in Woomera to recover the capsule which they hope will provide important scientific clues about the composition of the asteroid, Itokawa. The spacecraft was launched by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in May 2003 and landed on the asteroid [...]
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