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Unmanned Japanese Cargo Spacecraft Could Be NASA's Next Space Shuttle

With the dinosaur Space Shuttle set to retire in 2010, and Orion due to be finished (optimistically) by 2015, NASA may purchase the $131 million unmanned HTV cargo vehicle from JAXA, Japan's space agency, to guarantee fresh shipments of space-Doritos flowing up to the brave souls on the International Space Sation. While they had initially planned to fill this gap by relying on commercial space cargo flights by companies like SpaceX, Reuters is reporting that delays in the private-sector space companies have caused NASA to look elsewhere to avoid being crippled by the Shuttle's retirement. UPDATE: NASA issued a statement this afternoon saying the Reuters' report was full of baloney. They're still dedicated to finding commercial haulers—full release below. More »

1:00 PM on Mon Jul 21 2008
By John Mahoney
2,728 views, 19 comments

Latest by tdeckard2000: @Chromeo is typing this on his iPhone 3G: I saw the pic an i thought the exact same thing. In fact i clicked on the link jus to see if anyone else was thinking it. .. cool more »

boomerang

Video of Space Boomerang Is Exactly What You Expect

We knew that boomerangs work in space because Takao Doi tried one in the International Space Station last month. Now, thanks to JAXA's obsession with cameras we have proof on video. The usual skeptics who think that Elvis is really the only human that ever went to the moon—and still lives there—will be happy. [JAXA via Pink Tentacle]

8:06 AM on Thu May 1 2008
By Jesus Diaz
8,262 views, 46 comments

Latest by TurboFool: @ArielWollinger: Thank you, I came here to comment about that. Someone who believes Elvis is still alive, or that the moon landing didn't happen, isn't a skeptic, they're a paranoid, conspiracy-theorist, moron. There's a pretty damn big difference. Skeptics take more »

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First High Definition Moon Map Released, Uranium Sites Located

Selene, Japan's lunar spacecraft and HD peeping Tom, keeps sending stunningly-detailed information from our crystal clear Moon to trashed Mother Earth. These first-ever high definition global topographic maps of the Moon were created using 1,127,392 point measurements, taken with its laser altimeter. And they are just preliminary versions. More »

3:00 PM on Sun Apr 13 2008
By Jesus Diaz
67,870 views, 39 comments

connectivity

Japan's Kizuna Satellite to Beam Souped Up Internet Connection Back Home

Japan is launching the Kizuna satellite, which will bring high-speed internet access to Japan's remote territories and neighboring countries, as well as providing continuous networking in case of emergency. The $342 million project, spearheaded by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is expected to culminate in internet connections reaching speeds of 1.2Gbps, dwarfing current ADSL connections that typically allow data transfer to occur at below 8 Mbps. Users will need to install an antenna to be able to receive a signal, but for those speeds, I'd be willing to trade in a pound of my very own flesh. More »

8:00 PM on Sun Feb 24 2008
By Haroon Malik
6,313 views, 29 comments

Latest by buckminster: At an altitude of 22,240 statute miles, one way light time is .11 seconds so latency is a show stopper. more »

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First HD Image of the Earth from 236,000 Miles Away

If you ever wondered what our planet looked like in hi-def from a quarter of a million miles away, now you know. Thanks to an HDTV camera with 1920 x 1080 resolution onboard the lunar explorer Kaguya (but you can call her Serene), images of the Earth rising and setting on November 7 were beamed back to JAXA's Usuda space station (JAXA is Japan's space agency). The southern hemisphere is toppermost, so that is an upside-down Australia you can see, but that's just normal for those of us who are British. Oh, and we know that 286 lines of Flash vid doesn't constitute "HD," but this is the best we can deliver. (There's no sound on the vid, either, but that's because it's in space.) [Jaxa]

8:39 AM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By AddyDugdale
34,882 views, 39 comments

Latest by n/a: If you fart in space after eating nothing but tang and freeze dried ice cream, in zero gravity, will the fart eventually dissipate or can you come back fifteen minutes into the same corner you were in and smell it. more »