An unmanned Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites crashed shortly after lift-off from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, Russian media reported. There were no reported injuries. State-run Rossiya-24 television showed...
Concepts that were just science fiction a few decades ago are now turning into reality. What does the future have in store? What science fiction concepts of today will be the reality of tomorrow.
Humans will be humans! Does anyone believe that as Space becomes more and more accessible that Space will not be used for warfare?? Conventional missiles from Space can deliver blows as large as nuclear...
A look at two projects being design spacecraft to take will allow humans to colonise planets outside our solar System. These two projects have been called the ‘100 Year Starship’ and Project ‘Icarus’. They...
Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping gives space lecture on micro gravity and also performs various experiments. A great look inside this Chinese space capsule and also a view of Mission Control.
If we can control time we can control our destiny. Many scientists have been conducting research in their own laboratories and maybe in the 21st century present theories will become reality. Scientists are looking...
Curiosity has no less than 17 cameras. A Curiosity Engineer gives an update on what the cameras are and what each one is specifically used for. Curiosity is currently at Point Lake on Mars.
Rocket technology that has been used to put payloads into space is getting obsolete. For next generation space travel governments and private companies are looking at new forms of propulsion and reusable modules. Conventional...
Steve Jurvetson, MD of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, discusses the future of the Space industry with Jon Erlichman from Bloomberg. In ten years time we will see the cost of putting a man into space plummett...
Michio Kaku discusses ways in which we could explore the Universe. The biggest barrier to the human exploration of the Universe is ‘speed’. How do we build a craft that can travel to almost...
Dr. Michio Kaku explains how scientists are trying to shrink the Universe into a single equation, ‘The Theory of Everything’. String theory may eventually lead us to this simplified understanding.
Here is the latest update from NASA with details of problems with the Kepler spacecraft, the 40th anniversary of Skylab and the latest news from the NASA laboratories. Don’t miss the Goolge hangout between...
Why the element beryllium is being used in the James Webb telescope. The James Webb telescope is the successor to Hubble and will allow us to see the furthest back in time than ever...
In 2012, the Goddard CARA team participated in collision-avoidance maneuvers for eight missions, which included the Fermi spacecraft which was in danger from being in collision with a Russian satellite. Fermi rockets were designed...
An introduction to ESA, The European Space Agency. The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation, a cooperative coming together of its twenty Member States in their national interest and common good. Even though a...
China successfully launched the ChinaSat 11 communications satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center with a with Long March 3B rocket and successfully entered it into geosynchronous orbit. httpv://youtu.be/hCrS0B3MvRM The communications satellite consists of C-band...
In this NASA video segment learn about the mobile robot NASA plans to use for future missions to Mars and the Moon. The new rover being tested has been dubbed ATHLETE ( the All-Terrain Hex-Limbed...
Here is the latest update from all the NASA facilities and projects. It also includes NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver tour of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission control room and was briefed on Goddard Earth...
