Smallsats, Cubesats, and Chipsats: Klein, Aber Oho!

Nope, you aren’t seeing things. There’s some German in the title there. The phrase essentially means small but mighty (like my wife). And the phrase describes, in a nutshell, the explosive growth and growing capabilities of these miniature mighty man-made moons. Nature.com has a fairly good write-up about the history and current state of Cubesats. It’s exciting […]

Growing Opportunities for Job-hunters in the Space Business?

Working with space launch and satellites should be exciting, right? Well in my latest Clearancejobs.com post there’s a short list (definitely click on Sofge’s list within the post to find more) of some companies who might want more “space operations” expertise. Just read the post: Growing Opportunities and Space Businesses.

Space Image Keeps Loch Ness Myth Alive

In a weird, but probably inevitable and predictable use of satellite imagery, someone thinks a few satellite images “prove” the Loch Ness Monster is lurking below the lake’s waves. The post to which the above image is linked, is at least trying to make that connection. But, it might take a true imagery analyst to […]

Win A (Sky)box Full of Imagery

Do you have a need? More specifically, do you have a need for European Space Imaging data using Skybox satellite imagery worth 20,000 Euros? What about your mom? Your dad? Okay–how about your school? Ah, there we go. That’s right, Copernicus-Masters has issued a challenge, and the prize to that challenge is Skybox imagery. What’s […]

NASA’s Hovering Mighty Eagle

I’ve been interested in SpaceX’s Grasshopper and the ability to launch, hover, and land it on the same launch pad. You can go to one of my posts, here, to see that feat. But I feel I should give NASA its due. NASA is developing a robotic lander that for now they’ve named the “Mighty Eagle.” The Mighty […]