Out of Many, One (Synthetic Image, that is)

This Defense Update post sounds like something I may have talked about before–using a flock of small maneuvering satellites, with each satellite within the flock taking an image and using each image to build a big, high resolution image–one a bigger, more expensive satellite might get with a big imagery sensor. NASA’s contractor, Aurora Flight […]

Future Airship: Dragon Dreams

I just found this video on the Aeroscraft website. I’m posting it here as a “postscript” to my post from yesterday, but not space-related for those of you following this blog solely for that. To quote Lloyd from the movie Dumb and Dumber: “So you’re telling me there’s a chance.” At least more of a chance […]

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Gets Its Legs

“All four landing legs now mounted on Falcon 9…” Wait! What??! That was SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s tweet on 25 February, 2013. And there was a linked picture of it all, too. SpaceX is doing something NASA and the United States Air Force can’t do: adding legs to its Falcon 9 rocket. That’s right, the […]

Pocari Sweat, Protoss Carriers, and Space Junk

Singapore’s Astroscale may have a plan, and the tech, to clean up Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) space junk. At least, that’s what Astroscale’s founder, Nobu Okada, told the TechinAsia website in this post. If you want a visual of all the stuff out there in orbit for grabbing, just watch the video above. Astroscale is […]

From Earth to the Moon?

I am not sure what to make of the video above. The cannon launcher seems like a bit of a joke, especially in the backyard setting, but it could also work. And the inventor is asking for money to make it all a reality (see last paragraph of this post for details and link). It’s […]