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Weekly Space Hangout – June 23, 2017: NEOShield-2 Project Team

23 Jun , 2017 by

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: This week’s special guests are the NEOShield-2 Project Team. NEOShield-2 is a 100% European Union funded project to develop technologies to avoid an asteroid impact on Earth. Guests: Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Their stories this week: Hubble Finds a Dead Galaxy LISA is ON! NASA Releases a […]

Snake Rovers Might be the Best Way to Explore the Surface and Tunnels on Mars

22 Jun , 2017 by

A team from SINTEF, and with the support of the ESA is looking to develop snake robots to assist astronauts aboard the ISS and conduct missions to asteroids, the Moon and Mars.

2nd SpaceX Recycled Falcon 9 Rocket Launching 1st Bulgarian GeoComSat June 23, Plus Potential Weekend Launch ‘Doubleheader’ – Watch Live

22 Jun , 2017 by

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – For only the second time in history, SpaceX will launch a ‘flight-proven’ Falcon 9 rocket this Friday afternoon and the payload this time for this remarkable and science fictionesque milestone is the first geostationary communications satellite for the nation of Bulgaria. Blastoff of the BulgariaSat-1 communications satellite for commercial broadband […]

Hubble Finds a Dead Galaxy that was Finished Making Stars Just a Few Billion Years After the Big Bang

22 Jun , 2017 by

Relying on Hubble and gravitational lensing, a team of astronomers made the unexpected discovery of a galaxy that ceased star formation just three billion years after the Big Bang.

Saturn Rides Bareback On The Galactic Dark Horse

22 Jun , 2017 by

Yippy-ki-yay! Saturn rides the back of a prancing pony across the evening sky. See it the next clear night.

See NASA’s Curiosity Rover Simultaneously from Orbit and Red Planet’s Surface Climbing Mount Sharp

22 Jun , 2017 by

You can catch a glimpse of what its like to see NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover simultaneously high overhead from orbit and trundling down low across the Red Planet’s rocky surface as she climbs the breathtaking terrain of Mount Sharp – as seen in new images from NASA we have stitched together into a mosaic view; showing the perspective views above.
Sleeping for Centuries?

Is Human Hibernation Possible? Going to Sleep for Long Duration Spaceflight

21 Jun , 2017 by

We know trips in space will take a long time. Can we go to sleep for the journey and then wake up when we arrive?

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Let’s Clean up the Space Junk with Magnetic Space Tugs

21 Jun , 2017 by

A researcher working with the ESA has proposed creating a fleet of magnetic tugs to safely and effectively remove space debris from orbit.

LISA is On! Gravitational Wave Detection is Going to Space

21 Jun , 2017 by

The ESA recently decided to move forward with its LISA mission, a trio of satellites that will be the first space-based gravitational wave detector.
2007 OR10 Moon

An Astronomical Detective Tale and the Moon of 2007 OR10

21 Jun , 2017 by

It isn’t every day we get a new moon added to the list of solar system satellites. The combined observational power of three observatories—Kepler, Herschel and Hubble—led an astronomical detective tale to its climatic conclusion: distant Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 has a tiny moon.

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