Not all that long ago NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter did a little spying on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
Category: Space
Tiny Unmanned Aircraft to Fly Into Hurricanes
What would you say if someone told you that they are going to fly their model plane into a hurricane? Crazy right? That’s exactly what you would think but the bright lads over at the Aerosonde Corporation think it’s crazy not to. Each small airplane is equipped with scientific instruments that will monitor temperature, pressure, humidity and wind speeds inside the storm. This data will be transmitted back to a receiving station in real time as the tiny craft spirals into the eye of the storm and then back out. It’s hoped that such data will help NASA and NOAA better understand how these large storms develop in order to predict changes in hurricane intensity.
Wired Nextfest 2006
I had the happy accident of seeing a sign for the Wired Nextfest in a subway on Tuesday and made it one of the last things on the big list for NYC.
Holy crap, all the time I was there I kept thinking Roy Batty’s line from Blade Runner "I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…’ This was stuff that I had blogged about or read of in magazines…
Move Over Venus
With the International Space Station receiving its new solar collectors it my become ever brighter than the planet Venus in our night sky. It will be even brighter when all of the planned collectors are installed in 2012. Already many backyard astronimers are capturing wonderful images of the station with their ‘scopes. If you want to have a go at seeing it some evening just enter your location at the NASA Orbital Tracker and grab your binoculars.
THAAD Missile Launch Out of White Sands
This morning I spotted the vapor trail from a missile launch from White Sands New Mexico. The launch was part of a test for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system being tested by the US Army. For more information on viewing these launches check out the Space Archive web site. Brian does a bang up job at alerting people of these spectacular events.
Russian Cosmonaut to Whack Golf Ball From ISS
Well these things don’t fly for free. I wonder if NASA will ever fully embrac the capitalistic opportunities of space. Spin-off projects are great, everyone loves CAT scanners, micro electronics, and Tang but there are so many other uses for space. Advertising is just one of the uses that the Russian space agency has employed so far. In the future once a larger habitation structure can be built the possibilities for generating revenue for space agencies broaden significantly.
A Russian cosmonaut will whack a golf ball from the international space station in a publicity stunt on Thanksgiving Day, NASA officials said Tuesday, Associated press news agency reports.
Russian flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin will show off his swing to promote a Canadian golf club manufacturer during a spacewalk on Nov. 23.