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NASA SOLICITS TINY SATELLITE LAUNCH SERVICES NASA SOLICITS TINY SATELLITE LAUNCH SERVICES - NASA today officially asked for proposals from companies interested in launching small rockets from Kennedy Space Center to send tiny satellites into space at a fraction of what big rocket launches cost. NASA is opening the door to what it calls "Venture Class," or V-Class, rockets that could be the size of the very earliest rockets the agency and its predecessor were launching in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They could be as small as 30 feet tall, and they'd be launched from a new pad NASA envisions constructing not far from the big 39-A and 39-B pads that were used for Saturn and space shuttle rockets.   More
(Source: Orlando Sentinel - Jun 14)


EUROPEAN SPACE CHIEF SUGGESTS MAKING ROOM FOR CHINA, INDIA ON STATION EUROPEAN SPACE CHIEF SUGGESTS MAKING ROOM FOR CHINA, INDIA ON STATION - The incoming head of the European Space Agency said in a published interview that the International Space Station should be opened up to astronauts from India and China. The $100 billion space station, visible from Earth to the naked eye, is a habitable research outpost backed by 15 countries including the United States, Russia and Germany. China and India are not part of the group. "We need to get away from the principle of being a closed club," Johann-Dietrich Woerner told German magazine Spiegel.   More
(Source: Reuters - Jun 14)


INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS COME BACK DOWN TO EARTH AFTER DRAMA-FILLED 6 MONTHS ABOARD OR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS COME BACK DOWN TO EARTH AFTER DRAMA-FILLED 6 MONTHS ABOARD OR - Three astronauts are returning to Earth after an eventful six months aboard the International Space Station - undeterred the mysterious engine glitch that knocked the orbiting laboratory off course earlier this week . Samantha Cristoforetti, Terry Virts and Anton Shkaplerov climbed into their Soyuz space capsule to make the three-and-a-half hour descent later today (June 11). All going well, they will land in Kazakhstan just before 3pm UK time. The three have been on the Space Station since November 2014. In their time, they've been carrying out research, making repairs and documenting life in space in a series of fascinating social media posts. Thanks to the crew, we now know about these weird devices used when going to the loo in space, how to cut hair in microgravity and what constitutes a 'cheeseburger' when you don't have access to McDonald's.    More
(Source: Mirror.co.uk - Jun 12)


ELON MUSK IS ALMOST READY TO PROVIDE HIGH-SPEED SATELLITE INTERNET TO ALL ELON MUSK IS ALMOST READY TO PROVIDE HIGH-SPEED SATELLITE INTERNET TO ALL - Unsatisfied with just running Tesla, SpaceX, revolutionizing batteries and planning to send people to Mars, Elon Musk also wants to tackle the internet problem. And by problem I don’t mean that your internet is sometimes a bit slow because that’s more of an inconvenience than a major issue. A real problem is that a lot of people around the world have a very difficult time, or even find it downright impossible to access the internet at all. Seeing as how most internet service providers are unlikely to venture to remote parts of the world and sell their services, Elon Musk figured that we should have a global satellite network capable of providing high-speed internet to all straight from low-Earth orbit.   More
(Source: Geek Snack - Jun 11)


EVERY SATELLITE GOT INTO SPACE THANKS TO NEWTON'S LAW OF GRAVITATION EVERY SATELLITE GOT INTO SPACE THANKS TO NEWTON'S LAW OF GRAVITATION - What goes up must come down — though not always in the way you’d expect. This is Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation, and you can thank it for GPS, Google Earth and even the pictures beamed back from the other side of the Solar System. Here’s why. The equation neatly describes the gravitational attraction that two objects experience between each other, as a result of their masses and how far apart their centers lie. It’s this equation that predicts how hard objects fall to Earth when they’re dropped. But it wasn’t entirely Newton’s work, despite its name.   More
(Source: Gizmodo - Jun 11)


FIRST SEX IN SPACE: PORNHUB IS GOING TO MAKE A PORN FILM IN SPACE FIRST SEX IN SPACE: PORNHUB IS GOING TO MAKE A PORN FILM IN SPACE - In one small thrust for man and one giant leap for mankind, two people are set to have sex in space for the first time in human history, but for porn not procreation - Pornhub is crowdfunding a space mission to shoot an adult film in low-Earth orbit. The site hopes to launch the mission and shoot Sexplorations in 2016, covering the pre and post-production costs itself but seeking $3.4 million from IndieGogo crowdfunders. It's a huge target, but there's every chance it will be reached, with Pornhub receiving over 16 billion visits a year and all of the money being returned to investors if the goal isn't achieved.   More
(Source: The Independent - Jun 11)


FURTHER DELAYS LIKELY IN U.S. LAUNCHES TO SPACE STATION FURTHER DELAYS LIKELY IN U.S. LAUNCHES TO SPACE STATION - Come 2018, it's almost certain U.S. astronauts will still be riding Russian rockets to the International Space Station. A vote by a key Senate panel Wednesday all but killed any chance Congress will fully finance NASA's space shuttle replacement program by 2017 and end the agency's reliance on Soyuz rockets for access to the space station. That vote by the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that finances the space program approved $900 million for the shuttle replacement program, known as Commercial Crew, in fiscal 2016. That's nearly $350 million less than the $1.24 billion NASA requested to meet a launch target of late 2017.   More
(Source: USA Today - Jun 11)


RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY RESCHEDULES 6 FLIGHTS TO INT'L SPACE STATION FOR 2015 RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY RESCHEDULES 6 FLIGHTS TO INT'L SPACE STATION FOR 2015 - Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday it has rescheduled launches to the International Space Station (ISS) to include six more for 2015. The decision was made after the Progress M27-M cargo ship carrying fuel, oxygen, food and scientific equipment to the ISS failed to dock, going into an uncontrolled spin on April 28. The spacecraft was soon declared irretrievable and burned up in the atmosphere during reentry.    More
(Source: Sputnik International - Jun 10)


GLITCH SHIFTS POSITION OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION GLITCH SHIFTS POSITION OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - A glitch at the International Space Station on Tuesday caused its position in orbit to change, but the crew was not in danger, the Russian space agency said. Roscosmos said the engines of a Soyuz spacecraft docked at the station unexpectedly started during testing of the radio system that controls the docking procedure. Steps were taken to stabilize the station and specialists were now working to determine what caused the engines to start, the agency said.   More
(Source: ABC News - Jun 10)


SPACE STATION CREW RETURNING TO EARTH AFTER DELAY SPACE STATION CREW RETURNING TO EARTH AFTER DELAY - Three crewmembers who have been aboard the International Space Station for an extended, 6.5-month mission will be heading home on Thursday, with no launch date set for their replacements. Station commander Terry Virts with NASA, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and the Italian Space Agency’s Samantha Cristoforetti had been slated to fly back to Earth on May 13. The trio launched aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule on Nov. 24, 2014. The Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, and its partners in the station program delayed the crew’s homecoming and the launch of their replacements while engineers investigated why a Russian Progress cargo ship, flying on a different version of the Soyuz rocket used to launch crew, failed shortly after reaching orbit on April 28.   More
(Source: Discovery News - Jun 10)

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