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Mars 500: The simulation ends
The Mars 500 facility, in a parking lot….Credit: ESA, Wikimedia Commons It was, as so many jokingly put it, a real down-to-earth mission to Mars. As in, the mission never left Earth. Beginning June 3, 2010 and ending November 4, 2011, the Mars 500 mission took place in a facility at the Russian Academy of [...]
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Two Notable Space Successes
Concerning space missions, there’s always something happening in space. Most of it is ‘routine’ in the sense that what happens was expected and a normal part of the mission. Re-supply of the International Space Station generally falls into that category (except a couple of weeks ago when the resupply vehicle missed the station on the [...]
Posted in News: Space Exploration Also tagged asteroid, flyby, IKAROS, JAXA, Lutetia, photon, propulsion, Rosetta, Saturn, solar-sail, spacecraft, Venus Leave a comment
Exploiting suborbital space
The commercial ‘exploitation’ of space has been developing for more than a decade. By exploitation I mean simply ‘making a profit’ from it. Lofting satellites into orbit was once the purview of governments. In fact, rockets into any level of space were usually government projects (and mostly military). That began changing a decade or two [...]
Posted in Impact: Space Exploration Also tagged commercial space, ISS, LEO, NASA, NASA mission, private space companies, rocketry, suborbital space Leave a comment
It’s big, it’s temperate; it’s a normal planet: CoRoT-9b
To-date a little more than 400 planets outside of our Solar System have been discovered. A new planet has just been added to the list, CoRoT-9b, and it’s special. It’s a big planet, a gas giant like Jupiter and Saturn. However, its orbit is close to the star (unlike Jupiter and Saturn) so it has [...]
Posted in News: Exogenous Life Also tagged CoRoT Satellite, CoRoT-7b, CoRoT-9b, exoplanet, gas giant, NASA, planet, solar system Leave a comment
Russians plan asteroid diversion
Nazdrovia! Nothing like starting off 2010 with a little talk of Armageddon (the movie). Rumors were flying around the Internet just before the New Year that the Russians are planning a mission to divert the asteroid 99942 Apophis away from Earth collision.
Off to Mars. Yes and no.