Rain from SpaceLight

There are smarties out there who knew about this kind of thing already, but I never professed to be a smartie. And the information in this Motherboard post is quite fascinating. There is not just one, but TWO proposals for using lasers on satellites to help “adjust” the Earth’s climate. Captain Planet would be very […]

DIY Space: Balloons and Balls

27,000 were used for re-floating a boat. They’ve been shot at high speeds out of air cannons. Captain Kangaroo enjoyed a daily shower of them. But there’s a person that’s determined to get them into space, too. What is it that’s the object of all this activity? Ping pong balls! The person who’s trying to send […]

Rockzip’s Inflated Dreams

Rockzip Highballoon’s mission “is to improve life on Earth by giving people a new angle from which to solve difficult problems.” How are they proposing to do give people that new angle? By simply launching a “highballoon” about 75,000 ft or a little over 14 miles high. That’s right, this isn’t about satellites, but about balloons that might do […]

McMoons: Controlling Satellites from the Drive-thru

Clearancejobs.com was kind enough to post one of my newer submissions. Proof that an operations control center can be set up pretty much anywhere, with this one controlling ISEE-3. Just click on the following link to read about it: McMoons: Controlling Satellites from the Drive-thru.

Spacecraft for the Dead

It’s quite expensive get a person up into the Earth’s orbit. For the National Aeronautics and Space administration (NASA), it’s VERY expensive. They pay the Russian space agency about $70.6 million per astronaut to ferry them to the International Space Station (ISS). That’s more than World-Hopper passes for a family of four to the Disney World […]