Providing Information Equality with Satellites

Outernet is proposing to broadcast information, via satellite, to portable base stations that are also wireless networks. The wireless networks would be free and open to the very poor around the world. Outernet wants to provide information equality to those poor people. They mean well, I suppose. And it’s a very interesting idea they’re pursuing with some […]

More Rabbits on the Moon?

There are several teams competing for Google’s Lunar XPRIZE. One team is going their own way, because instead of using just one robot, the team, Hakuto (which is Japanese for rabbit), is using two. The following information comes from Space.com’s recent post about Hakuto and the robot duo they are prototyping. The bigger robot, looking like […]

Uncovering Secret Sativa Farms From Space

Looks like some regional Chinese officials on the take have been found out, thanks to Chinese imagery satellites. According to this South China Morning Post article, the first of the latest generation of Chinese imagery satellites, Gaofen-1, has been imaging an area in China that contained a very big marijuana farm. The whacky weed farm is […]

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 […]