Space & Spaceflight

Live Images From Mars in Google Earth Now Available

Mars in Google Earth is officially showing live updates from the surface of the angry planet. Google issued this mysterious statement today: “We are entering uncharted territory.” Users can access the images from the Themis camera onboard the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, as well as older images from up to a century ago. You can explore…

Space & Spaceflight Dan Nosowitz

Call to Arms: The International Space Station Needs Lasers

OK, let’s cut the crap here, NASA: After today’s near-evacuation, it’s clear that you need weapons on the International Space Station. And don’t forget to put web controls so we all can play. https://gizmodo.com/space-station-crew-climb-into-escape-module-to-avoid-pa-5168862 Seriously now: This is seriously fraked up. The ISS is almost as big as a Corellian corvette and it’s up there…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Space Station Crew Climb Into Escape Module To Avoid Passing Space Debris

Members of the ISS crew climbed aboard the Soyuz TMA-13 capsule for about 10 minutes today as a precaution against space debris passing nearby. The threat was called off around 12:45 EDT. In addition to the 19,000+ pieces of space junk floating around, the recent collision of two satellites has substantially increased the dangers of…

Space & Spaceflight Sean Fallon

Spy On the International Space Station, Live

NASA has started live streaming video from the ISS so you can keep tabs on your favorite space laboratory. But the catch is that you won’t see astronauts on the show. Due to a limited bandwidth of communication channels, the live stream can only run while astronauts are asleep. And to promote their privacy, footage…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

Too Much Space Debris? Try a Weak Laser or a Strong Water Cannon

There are 18,000 pieces of tracked space debris in orbit—and millions more smaller bits—all potentially fatal. To nudge them towards the atmosphere to burn up, one scientist proposes lasers, another proposes water. According to the Wall Street Journal, the problem with debris eradication is that there’s no money in it. Anybody can cough up a…

Space & Spaceflight Wilson Rothman

NASA May Name Chunk of the ISS After Stephen Colbert Instead of Firefly

Remember when it looked like a chunk of the International Space Station would be named Serenity, thanks to an online poll by NASA? That was before Stephen Colbert caught wind of it. https://gizmodo.com/a-chunk-of-the-iss-to-be-named-after-firefly-5160183 Unsurprisingly, Colbert sent legions from the Colbert Nation to the poll to write in “Colbert,” and now it’s beating Serenity by more…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

International Space Station Will Be the Second Brightest Object in the Night Sky

Once a new set of solar array wings are installed on the International Space Station, it will be the second brightest object in the sky, topping Venus and losing only to the Moon. The new wings, which will be the fourth and final set installed on ISS, will be used to provide 50% more power…

Space & Spaceflight Adrian Covert

The Latest Star Trek Trailer Officially Sucked Me In

Every new Star Trek trailer has done more to pique my interest, but this latest clip, teasing how Kirk takes the helm and boasting the most eye candy yet, has activated full-out fanboy mode. [YouTube via CrunchGear]

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

Astronaut to Fly Magic Carpet In Space, Plus Perform Other Civilian Requests

If I were ever so blessed to copulate with Scarlett Johansson, I might try some strange things, things I wasn’t even generally comfortable with, just for the vicarious accomplishment of all mankind. Koichi Wakata, a Japanese astronaut, is working under a similar philosophy. He’s promised to perform 16 tasks in ISS laboratories that have been…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

T-1 Day for Kepler Launch, Search for Alternative Earths

What looks like a large burrito wrapped in tin foil, is designed to find habitable planets, and is sitting—inside a Delta II rocket—on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral AFS, ready for launch tomorrow night? The new Kepler spacecraft, the first telescope specifically designed to find planets like Earth, planets that can have live like…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

HOTOL: The Reusable Spaceship Coming Back from the 80s

The days of the shuttle must be over, but that’s not the end of reusable spaceships. Now the Europeans want to revive an old 1980s project called HOTOL. Check out the cool cutaway drawing. https://gizmodo.com/skylon-rocket-jet-hybrid-is-scientifically-speaking-s-5156992 Click on the image above to see a larger version of the cutaway HOTOL was initially developed by the British…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Misty Stealth Satellite Hides Perfectly While Watching You

Misty. That’s the codename for one of the most advanced spy satellites up there. Launched in a 1990 military mission of space shuttle Atlantis, Misty is hidden by something really weird: A balloon. As you can see in the image, Misty uses a conical reflective balloon. Little is known about how it works but in…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Mega Laser Set to Explore Jupiter’s Mysterious Gas

Whats that smell? Why, it’s a 500 trillion watt mega laser deciphering the mysteries of space’s gas giants, that’s what that smell is. Get a good whiff, because you’re about the learn something. The mega laser, formerly used to generate fusion data for nuclear weapon simulations, works by frying iron and other materials. The laser’s…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Robots May Prepare Ground for NASA Moon Base, Discover Hidden Nazis

NASA wants to have a lunar base in 2020, and they are teaming up with Astrobotic Technology and Carnegie Mellon University to design automated Tonka trucks that would do the groundwork. And probably find Nazis: However, NASA’s 330-pound robots are not being designed to build underground UFO bases in the shape of swastika: They will…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Astronaut Invents Zero-G Coffee Cup Because, Out in Space, Nobody Can Hear You Burn Your Tongue

Though I’ve never tried it, I guess coffee just doesn’t taste as good coming out of an aluminum bag. That’s the only reason I can think of for inventing this astronaut coffee cup. The On-Orbit Coffee Cup uses surface tension to hold liquid in zero-g. It was invented by astronaut Donald Pettit after what we…

Space & Spaceflight Elaine Chow

Selene Captures Amazing Footage of Earth Eclipse

Selene—the Japanese lunar orbiter that is mapping the moon and searching for Nazis—has captured one of the most stunning views of Earth from the Moon, one in which you can’t see it: A penumbral eclipse. https://gizmodo.com/first-high-definition-moon-map-released-uranium-sites-379172 Even while it’s all black, in the video you can see the Earth rising over the Moon’s surface and…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

A Chunk of the ISS to Be Named After Firefly

NASA is allowing the public to vote on the name for “Node 3” of the International Space Station. So what did we do? We named it after a cult science fiction show, of course! As of right now, “Serenity” is dominating an open vote for Node 3’s new name. This ship from Joss Whedon’s short-lived…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

Tunnel with 40,000 LEDs Is the Closest You’ll Ever Get to Light Speed

I’ve never traveled through space at light speed, but I imagine that standing in this LED tunnel is pretty close to the dizzying experience. The video is just plain awesome. The name of the installation is Multiverse, and it was installed by artist Leo Villareal in a 200-foot-long tunnel in the National Gallery of Art…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

NASA Rocket Crash Claims The Life of First Global Warming Research Satellite

It would have been the first dedicated satellite for the study of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Instead, a failure during launch has scuttled NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory in the Pacific near Antarctica. The launch used a Taurus XL rocket, a small, cheap launch vehicle that has been successfully launched six times before today’s failure.…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney

Satellite Collision May Have Endangered All Future Space Launches

Remember when those two satellites collided the other day? Seems that they’ll be the space junk gift that keeps on giving, as their 800-km debris orbiting field could hamper all future space launches. https://gizmodo.com/it-finally-happened-two-satellites-crash-in-space-5151985 “Future launches will have to be adjusted with regard to the fact that the debris [from the collision] has spread over…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Live Images From Mars in Google Earth Now Available

Call to Arms: The International Space Station Needs Lasers

Space Station Crew Climb Into Escape Module To Avoid Passing Space Debris

Spy On the International Space Station, Live

Too Much Space Debris? Try a Weak Laser or a Strong Water Cannon

NASA May Name Chunk of the ISS After Stephen Colbert Instead of Firefly

International Space Station Will Be the Second Brightest Object in the Night Sky

The Latest Star Trek Trailer Officially Sucked Me In

Astronaut to Fly Magic Carpet In Space, Plus Perform Other Civilian Requests

T-1 Day for Kepler Launch, Search for Alternative Earths

HOTOL: The Reusable Spaceship Coming Back from the 80s

Misty Stealth Satellite Hides Perfectly While Watching You

Mega Laser Set to Explore Jupiter’s Mysterious Gas

Robots May Prepare Ground for NASA Moon Base, Discover Hidden Nazis

Astronaut Invents Zero-G Coffee Cup Because, Out in Space, Nobody Can Hear You Burn Your Tongue

Selene Captures Amazing Footage of Earth Eclipse

A Chunk of the ISS to Be Named After Firefly

Tunnel with 40,000 LEDs Is the Closest You’ll Ever Get to Light Speed

NASA Rocket Crash Claims The Life of First Global Warming Research Satellite

Satellite Collision May Have Endangered All Future Space Launches

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