Space & Spaceflight

A Space Age Dream Deferred

What you’re seeing are the remains of the Aerojet-Dade rocket manufacturing plant, built in 1963, deep in the Everglades. “Space Miami” documents how the people there hoped to put a man on the moon, and how those hopes were dashed. It’s amazing to see their efforts, and it’s a shame that they went to waste.…

Space & Spaceflight Kwame Opam

NASA Autonomous Lander Hovers in Midair, in Infrared Video

Hovering landers or drones look as though they’re suspended in the air, because you can’t see the vortices caused by the propellers or the heat emitted by the thruster, or whatever mechanism enables the hovering. Well, here you can. And it proves that the act of hovering is anything but delicate. In a test earlier…

Space & Spaceflight Rebecca Boyle - PopSci

Astronomers Find Star Shooting 100,000,000 Amazon Rivers of Water at 120,000 MPH

Just in time for summer, sky-looking researchers have found a star so aquatically-powerful that’s literally spraying the universe. The water-shooting star would have been better a cosmic hot tub for winter, however, as its streams are 180,000 degrees Fahrenheit. So that’s extremely hot water moving extremely quickly—and there’s a galactic shit-ton of it. Don’t worry,…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

Dutch Building Looks Like It Landed on the Surface of Mars

Architecture firms tend to use their offices as a giant business card they can work inside. Decos’ is no exception—except it looks like an astronaut base, not a Dutch headquarters. Their inspiration? A meteorite impact. The building itself is situated in a business park dedicated to space-related commerce, so the other-planetary design should fit right…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

Ultra-Bright Burst of Light Marks the Death Throes of a Star Being Eaten Alive

Astronomers have solved the mystery of a gargantuan cosmic explosion first spotted in March: A black hole did it, by killing and eating a star the size of our sun. A couple months ago, we told you about an unusually bright and long-lasting blast of energy emanating from the center of a galaxy 3.8 billion…

Space & Spaceflight Rebecca Boyle - PopSci

Why Satellites are the New God for Farmers

Farmers have been using GPS-tracking to better organize their fields for a while but now they have a new god who watches them from space: Satellites that tell them exactly what they need to make perfect crops. RapidEye is based in Germany but they have a view of the entire world thanks to their fleet…

Space & Spaceflight Michael Zhao

What Does a 268MP Image Sensor Look Like?

Space photography requires a camera—a really big camera. One with 32 CCD sensors that snaps pictures at a mind-bending 268-megapixel resolution. Go ahead, you can call it the OmegaCam. You may want to take this one home with you, but you can’t. It weighs a whopping 1700lbs and produces about 30TBs of data per year.…

Space & Spaceflight Kelly

World’s Largest Radio Telescope Being Built in China, Hopefully Not For Evil

I’ve just reread the entire plot of Goldeneye thanks to China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), and am now concerned some serious shit might go on down here once it’s completed in 2016. It’ll not only be the world’s largest, but it will also be the world’s most sensitive radio telescope, taking over from Puerto…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

Newt Gingrich Is a “Big Fan of Going into Space” and Wants to Kill NASA

Last night’s GOP debate didn’t just tap the tectonic plate-moving question of whether Ron Paul likes iPhones (he doesn’t!). Newt Gingrich was hit with an actually non-bullshit question: should we de-fund NASA? He didn’t really answer, but loves space! https://gizmodo.com/ron-paul-chooses-blackberry-over-iphone-in-pivotal-deba-5811737 Whether he meant the notion of humankind blasting into the vacuum, or some hitherto covert…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

Spacecrafts Blasting Off Underwater

Photographer Owen Silverwood snapped photos of these model NASA spacecraft launching underwater. Titled “Inner Space,” the cloud these rockets kick up while lifting off captures some of the awe you’d feel while watching a real launch. [Owen Silverwood via Neatorama]

Space & Spaceflight Kwame Opam

ISS Lamp Illuminates When the Space Station Is “Near”

Nathan Bergey wanted to know when that manmade wonder, the International Space Station, was shooting by above his head in orbit, so he did what any skilled tinkerer would do: He built a lamp that lights up whenever it’s overhead. Bergrev provides the full source code for this project as well as this brief, inspirational…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Two Lucky iPhones Will Be Guests On The Last Space Shuttle Mission

Some companies have all the luck. While Google’s green Android robot sits on the sidelines, Apple gets to send two of its iPhone 4 handsets into space with the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The iPhones were approved for the flight and will have the SpaceLab for iOS app installed on them. They will be used in…

Space & Spaceflight Kelly

Why This Is the Last Photo Ever Taken by This Camera

Paolo Nespoli, the Italian astronaut who took this photo, left Earth with three, professional-grade Nikon DSLRs worth over $20,000. He returned with none of them. The images of Endeavor docked to the ISS were his cameras’ last. https://gizmodo.com/the-first-and-last-time-you-will-see-the-space-shuttle-5809902 Standard procedure for the Soyuz spacecraft he was riding in dictates that no extra weight can be…

Space & Spaceflight Michael Zhao

The First and Last Time You Will See the Space Shuttle Docked to the Space Station

This video is extraordinary. Not only because it’s beautiful, but because it documents a future that is now gone forever. This is the first and only time you will ever see the space shuttle docked to the space station. Update: Video added! While ground telescopes have captured the shuttle and the ISS together before—as tiny…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Last Space Shuttle Launch Captured in Stunning HDR

The Space Shuttle Endeavor made its final voyage last week and Nasa-funded photographers were on hand to capture the historic event. Rather than release something boring, the team created the gorgeous HDR photograph above. So how did they did create this ogle-worthy image? The imaging experts took 20,000 photographs in 13 seconds using six sets…

Space & Spaceflight Kelly

Especially With the Lack of Pizza, Life In Space Is Hard

The way our science fiction depicts life in space, you’d think you could do just about whatever you wanted. Well, apparently that’s very false. You can’t even have pizza in space. Or ice cream. According to ABC News, pizza simply doesn’t hold up in zero gravity. Neither does it freeze-dry or dehydrate very well. Meanwhile,…

Space & Spaceflight Kwame Opam

One-Man Mini-Rocket Has Shaky Second Launch

As the one-man Heat-1X rocket started to veer off course and outside the designated launch area, mission controllers cut the engine and ended the test flight well short of the 15-kilometer goal. Also, the parachute did not fully open. Success! Indeed, the test was considered a success by designers at Copenhagen Suborbitals, who assembled the…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

The Ghosts of Saturn

Designer Chris Abbas collected a ton of Cassini photography from the Saturn mission and made this video. It is at times simultaneously eerie and awe-inspiring. This is not your father’s NASA highlight reel. Nine Inch Nails provides the soundtrack because that’s exactly what you’d expect of a ghostly Saturn fly-by video. Which reminds me: If…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

As Spirit Fades Forever, Mars Opportunity Rover Reaches New Distance Milestone

Even as its twin goes dark, Opportunity soldiers on unabated: The plucky NASA Mars rover, on planet for seven years now, just passed an impressive 30-kilometer milestone. Next on its plate is the massive 14-mile-wide Endeavour crater, just two miles away. The picture, while impressive, is not perfect. Cosmic rays have bombarded the rover more…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

A Space Age Dream Deferred

NASA Autonomous Lander Hovers in Midair, in Infrared Video

Astronomers Find Star Shooting 100,000,000 Amazon Rivers of Water at 120,000 MPH

Dutch Building Looks Like It Landed on the Surface of Mars

Ultra-Bright Burst of Light Marks the Death Throes of a Star Being Eaten Alive

Why Satellites are the New God for Farmers

What Does a 268MP Image Sensor Look Like?

World’s Largest Radio Telescope Being Built in China, Hopefully Not For Evil

Newt Gingrich Is a “Big Fan of Going into Space” and Wants to Kill NASA

Spacecrafts Blasting Off Underwater

ISS Lamp Illuminates When the Space Station Is “Near”

Two Lucky iPhones Will Be Guests On The Last Space Shuttle Mission

Why This Is the Last Photo Ever Taken by This Camera

The First and Last Time You Will See the Space Shuttle Docked to the Space Station

Last Space Shuttle Launch Captured in Stunning HDR

Especially With the Lack of Pizza, Life In Space Is Hard

One-Man Mini-Rocket Has Shaky Second Launch

The Ghosts of Saturn

As Spirit Fades Forever, Mars Opportunity Rover Reaches New Distance Milestone

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