You’re crying? There’s no crying in space(ball):-)!

This article highlights, I won’t say a complaint, but more of a resigned kind of knowledge for space operators everywhere: our stuff is invisible to everyone because–space, and it works so well that it needs little attention from the public, so, no one really appreciates our work. So the following is opinion and you may […]

Brickmasters and NASA

Okay, I admit–this is whimsically related–but related nonetheless. Genius idea, really! You have space, and you have LEGO, what should you do? You mash them all together, of course. This Product Design and Development site shows what happens when you do mash them together: cool ideas and brick models. Don’t forget to click on […]

Antenna airbags on cubesats

An inflatable antenna is an interesting alternative on a cubesat. This article talks about the boost in signal range with one of these things. Very interesting idea indeed, but not new. There are ground antennas that are inflatable, such as the GATR. But the idea is the same–make it cheaper and smaller, but keep the […]

A shadow of the future: When is a space shuttle not a space shuttle?

When it is a museum-piece being shuttled by an airplane to its resting place. Digitalglobe’s twitter-feed just sent this out. A little sad picture of the past (almost a year ago). Note the artifacting of the image in the photo? The way Digitalglobe explain it is the aircraft is moving fast during the time their […]

50 Kilometers above the moon

So tomorrow evening NASA is hoping to get this satellite launched out of Wallops Island, Virginia. Orbital Sciences is launching the satellite payload on top of a converted Peacekeeper ICBM (InterContinental Ballistic Missile), now called a Minotaur V. According to NASA’s mission statement, they would like to have the satellite orbiting the moon in a few […]