The US Air Force said it was looking to launch its 14-foot long X-51A Waverider on its first hypersonic flight test attempt May 25. The unmanned X-51A is expected to fly autonomously for five minutes, after being released from a B-52 Stratofortress off the southern coast of California. The Waverider is [...]
It’s ridiculous to think that space is this precious place free of conflict… we will have war in space, we’ve had it everywhere else!
On Thursday, in the wake of the Christmas Day bombing attempt over Detroit, President Barack Obama called on Homeland Security and the Energy Department to develop better screening technology, warning: “In the never-ending race to protect our country, we have to stay one step ahead of a nimble adversary.” The ideas that have been offered [...]
Footage from the security camera of the Mustek building in Midrand of the meteor shower that took place on 21 Nov 2009.
An Australian website is giving texting an intergalactic touch and allowing users to send short mobile phone-type messages into space. From Wednesday and until August 24, people hankering for an out-of-this-world experience can visit www.HelloFromEarth.net to post messages no longer than 160 characters that will be transmitted to Gliese 581d, the nearest Earth-like planet outside [...]
The US landed men on the moon six times between 1969 and 1972. In recent years, China, India and the US have announced plans to put humans on the moon once again sometime around the year 2020. Japan (being Japan) plans to send not a man to the moon, but a walking humanoid robot! (Also [...]
JAPAN’S scientists believe they may have made a breakthrough in odour-free underwear. The first Japanese astronaut to live on the International Space Station, is testing the clothes which he can wear for a week between changes and are designed to kill bacteria, absorb water, insulate the body,dry quickly, flame-resistant and anti-static.
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Another communication strategy that aliens might use instead of radio signals is to send brief and intense bursts of laser light across the galaxy, sort of like a signal lamp between two ships. Some space telescopes would be ideally suited to pluck out such a signal from the sky background.
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A small bat that was spotted blasting off with the space shuttle Sunday and clinging to the back side of Discovery’s external fuel tank apparently held on throughout the launch. NASA hoped the bat would fly away before the spacecraft’s Sunday evening liftoff, but photos from the launch now show the bat holding on for [...]
Proving that you don’t need Google’s billions or the BBC weather centre’s resources, the four Spanish students managed to send a camera-operated weather balloon into the stratosphere. Taking atmospheric readings and photographs 20 miles above the ground, the Meteotek team of IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia completed their incredible experiment at the end of [...]
On March 2, an asteroid whizzed past the Earth at a distance of just 41,000 miles — a near miss by cosmic standards (most communications satellites orbit at a distance of about 22,300 miles from Earth). Headlines around the world proclaimed that Earth had dodged a bullet, and many mentioned that if the space rock [...]
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