Nov 26
NASA has just published this true color photograph of the United States taken from space by the Suomi satellite. It’s going to be a rough Thanksgiving, folks:
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Nov 26
If you think that this spiral galaxy—NGC 4921 to its friends—looks a little sick, then you’re not far off the mark. Nicknamed the Anemic Spiral, it’s not quite as perky as most other galaxies in the Universe.
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Nov 25
SpaceX has scrubbed its planned SES-8 telecommunications satellite launch today, rescheduling the Falcon 9 rocket blast-off to Thanksgiving, Thursday November 28th. The launch, described by SpaceX as its “most challenging mission to date“, would have been the company’s first launch to a geostationary transfer orbit, 80,000 km from Earth. The original plan was to launch […]
Nov 25
Watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Blast Off Right Here, Right Now (Update: Nope)
Posted in: Today's Chili
In about 15 minutes At some point soon, hopefully, SpaceX is going fire off a redesigned Falcon 9 rocket with a commercial satellite attached. According to USA Today, it’s the first such launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida in four years. Watch all the action in the embedded video below. It’s going to be fiery, fast, and riveting.
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Nov 25
From its launch in 2009, the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory was a busy little satellite. Over its lifetime it made over 37, 000 scientific observations—and this video shows them all, condensed into less than one minute.
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Nov 25
This might look like the start of a scene from Gravity, but you’re actually looking at three nanosatellites—known as Cubesats—which have just been released in space.
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Nov 22
Virgin Galactic has jumped on the Bitcoin train, with founder Richard Branson announcing it will accept the topical virtual currency for tickets on its space flights. According to Branson, at least one Virgin Galactic early-adopter has paid for her ticket for an upcoming flight in Bitcoins, and the outspoken exec says there are obvious parallels […]
Nov 22
As the value and credibility of Bitcoin continues to skyrocket, Virgin founder Richard Branson now wants to let people use the digital currency to finance a flight into space. Ahead of its first trips next year, Virgin Galactic has already had one “future astronaut” from Hawaii book a Bitcoin-funded ticket and hopes that its affluent clientele will follow suit. An investor himself, Branson has been pushing for governments to regulate the peer-to-peer payment system and believes that today’s announcement will give it more credibility. Neither Virgin Galactic nor Branson has indicated just how many Bitcoins you’ll need before you get a return ticket to the heavens, but we suspect this isn’t the future that Gene Roddenberry was planning.
Filed under: Internet
Via: CNBC
Source: Virgin
Nov 21
NASA and Planetary Resources pen partnership for crowdsourced asteroid hunting
Posted in: Today's ChiliThis past summer, NASA announced the beginning of its Grand Asteroid Challenge with something it calls Grand Challenges, a push by the Obama Administration to further innovations and increase new discoveries. Today the agency has announced its first partnership under this challenge, with NASA penning an agreement with Planetary Resources in Washington state to crowdsource […]
Nov 21
NASA has published an incredible photo that shows a "far-flung trio of primitive galaxies nestled inside an enormous blob of primordial gas nearly 13 billion light-years from Earth." What’s amazing about this is that you are looking at something being created in the Cosmic Dawn, the period "when the universe was first bathed in starlight."
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