Extreme close-up–from space (Cassini, to be precise)!!

According to this Weather Underground article, NASA/JPL just put this collage together: Click to see (and embiggen it while there): Shiny, happy people waving hands 40,000 people in 1,400 pictures! Don’t ask about where our responsible government space agency found the time and money, as the US is still struggling to keep NASA relevant and […]

MORE POWER!!!

Okay, okay…this article’s idea has been floating around for a few decades. Given, that in my imaging operations posts we’ve only talked about low earth orbiting (LEO) satellites, and imagery ones at that, there are a few issues with this that you might be acquainted with. But the premise is right. You could set a […]

This sounds bad–doesn’t it?

So, Science World Report tried to spice things up a little with this headline: NASA Announces Coronal Mass Ejection Hurtling Toward Earth from Sun But if you read the article, I hope you understand it’s really not the end of the world. I know, I know–whoever names these things needs to consider what they sound like […]

A word to the WISE…

This article is sort of a bittersweet reminder to me because the company that let me go (due to government money concerns), Space Dynamics Laboratory, is the builder of this satellite: the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer or WISE. They want to reactivate it and use it to hunt for rogue asteroids, among other things. This is […]

So does this mean we’re to expect Zuul and Vince Clortho?

http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/File:TempleofGozerbio.pngThat’s right, both the Keymaster and the Gatekeeper might be coming soon. It just depends on when NOAA’s GOES-R (get it?) makes its appearance. As we all know, both Zuul and Vince Clortho will show, possibly in a refrigerator, before GOES-R. This latest Satnews article gives some nice details on GOES-12’s retirement, and what typically happens to […]