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 Washington (AFP) Aug 23, 2009 
NASA gave a final green light to continue the countdown to the launch of the shuttle Discovery Tuesday toward the International Space Station, carrying a crew of seven including a Swede. Mission officials said at a press briefing Sunday they saw no likely technical hurdles to takeoff August 25 at 0136 am (0536 GMT) from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. ... read more 
Sydeny, Australia (SPX) Aug 24, 2009Whoever does it, and whenever it happens, spacecraft from Earth will be touching down on the Moon in the near future. Several nations have already announced plans for robot landers, and more could be announced in the years ahead. It's difficult to find safe ground to land on, as the crew of Apollo 11 can tell you. But one thing that also constrains landings is the need for a communications ... more
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Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2009Wow! Launchspace received a large number of emails regarding last week's commentary by George Jeffs. Most were in agreement with some or all elements of Launchspace's suggested solar system architecture approach. Many said it was a common sense way to structure affordable exploration while maintaining a continuous human space flight capability. There was considerable concern about the over ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2009A second, lighter-weight test rover has entered the testing setup at JPL where rover team members are assessing strategy for getting Spirit out of soft soil where it is embedded on Mars. The rover team has begun using a test rover that does not carry a science payload or robotic arm, as do Spirit and Opportunity on Mars, and the primary engineering test rover at JPL. While the primary test ... more  
Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 24, 2009A new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with interesting properties, such as see-through construction and mechanical flexibility, that would be impossible to achieve with existing technologies. Applications for the arrays, which can be printed onto flat ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 17, 2009Mars rover team members are planning a long-duration experiment with the test rover at JPL beginning next week. This test will check whether favorable motion seen in earlier tests can be sustained to gain as much distance in the sandbox as Spirit would need to complete on Mars to escape its predicament. The team expects to drive the test rover for several hundred meters, or yards, worth of ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2009This is my first post to the blog about AMASE 2009. I am writing it from the Spitzbergen Guest house, a nice little accommodation place located in Nybyen at the southeast end of Longyearbyen (Svalbard), the place where part of the members of the AMASE expedition are staying before flying to Ny-Alesund. I am writing this blog while lying on bed because I am very tired...after a full week of work. ... more 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 13, 2009 Germany is debating whether to launch an unmanned mission to the moon to help German companies secure expertise in the aerospace sector. "A German moon landing is possible during the course of the next decade, around 2015," Peter Hintze, state secretary for economy and technology, on Wednesday told public broadcaster ZDF. Such a mission would cost at least $2.2 billion, but ... more |
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