Archive for the 'Satellites' Category
Greenland, the world’s largest island, holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 23 feet. Add the ice sheets of Antarctica and the oceans would deepen more than 200 feet!
Satellite measurements from space confirm that global warming is making an impact and turning ice into water. As glaciers begin to melt, the question everyone […]
Space-industry belt-tightening and ever shrinking technology are combining to give tiny satellites a big future, scientists say.
Sometimes as small as softballs, the little orbiters are cheaper and quicker to build than the megabuck, monster-size satellites that have dominated for decades.
“In the last ten years small satellites have started to take off across different industries and […]
An image of Titan’s surface shows what scientists believe are bodies of liquid, shown in blue.
PASADENA, California (AP) — At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn’s moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said Wednesday.
Scientists […]
POWAY, CA–(Marketwire - March 20, 2008) - SpaceDev, Inc. has been awarded a contract from IHI-Aerospace (Japan) to manufacture multiple flight ship-sets of precision space mechanisms for the H2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV). Included are low-shock release devices used to restrain the HTV’s exposed cargo pallet during launch, and release it on orbit for transfer to […]
Someone is lying?
Russia says the U.S. military’s plan to shoot down a spy satellite hurtling toward Earth is a veiled test of their missile system.
A statement released Saturday by Russia’s Defence Ministry said the Pentagon failed to provide “enough arguments” for why it plans to demolish the satellite.
“There is an impression that the United States is trying to […]
ITHACA, NY–(Marketwire - October 26, 2007) - Flight engineer Sunita Williams wields a hand-held drill outside the International Space Station. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin sets up a scientific experiment package on the desolate lunar surface. STS-11 crew members Jim Reilly and Danny Olivas make an odd couple in orbit, working head-to-toe during a 17,000 […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ — BioSpace, the leading life science industry job board and career fair company, welcomed over 1,500 biotech and pharmaceutical industry professionals to a BioSpace Career Fair in Burlingame, California on October 10.
The event produced a record breaking number of well qualified biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostics candidates. This history-making […]
ITHACA, NY–(Marketwire - October 12, 2007) - Delicate tendrils of interstellar dust in the Carina Nebula point toward regions of new star formation. A barred spiral galaxy, 60 million light-years away, reveals its gently arcing luminous arms. Surrounded by an expanding cocoon of nebulosity, a dying white dwarf star presages the death of our own […]
BOULDER, Colo., June 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. completed eight years of outstanding on-orbit operations today, performing six years beyond its minimum two-year mission requirement. QuikSCAT continues to return critical wind data to forecast hurricanes and El Nino effects and pinpoint typhoons and other marine […]
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications and the world’s leading provider of high-power commercial satellites, today announced that the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Rapid Spacecraft Development Office (RSDO) recently awarded SS/L a delivery order for a Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Spacecraft […]