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Month: June 2013

  • Weekly Space Blog 6/29

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    Another busy week in space, here is this weeks blog. Saturn News Saturn was in the news twice this week, researches have discovered the mystery of the gigantic storm circling Saturn and a image capture by Cassini shows a propeller like structure in the rings.  The researchers announced there findings based on analysis of images…

  • Weekly Space Blog 6/22

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    Lots of great news this week Herschel ends operations This week the Herschel team send the final commands to shutdown the spacecraft following a series of tests that were performed on the spacecraft after the primary mission finished because of the depletion of the helium coolant that cooled the primary instruments.  Since April the team…

  • Weekly Space Blog 6/15

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    This week SpaceX sign military agreement, Chinese Astronauts, Chris Hadfield, Opportunity and Kepler keep giving, and much more. SpaceX This week SpaceX signed a framework agreement for potential Military launches in the future.  Under the agreement the air force will evaluate the Falcon v1.1 rocket over at least three launches as well as all the…

  • Touch Tomorrow festival

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    Yesterday we visited Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for the Touch Tomorrow festival, there were lots of activities for the kids to do and some fun exhibits for everyone to learn about advances in robotics. The event sponsored by NASA was an opportunity for people to learn about the Space Launch System (SLS), visit a Moon…

  • This week we have a lot of news

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    This week we have a lot of news related to Space, enjoy. SpaceX Rocket Test This week SpaceX CEO tweeted that they had tested fired their most powerful Rocket yet, with 1.3m lbs. Here is a copy of the image, looking forward to seeing this vehicle in flight. Boeing Marching on with CCiCap milestones This…

  • Soyuz launch, ARKYD Kickstarter, Astronaut Abby

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    Welcome to my new weekly blog on all things Space, this week we take a look at the latest Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, the ARKYD Kickstarter project and Astronaut Abby a 15 year old with an amazing vision for STEM and Space. Soyuz Launch On Tuesday this week Karen Nyberg, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Luca…