by David Todd | Mar 11, 2013 | History, Science
The mystery change in the orbital parameters of a small Russian satellite have now have been explained: it was apparently caused by a debris strike and the debris came from a Chinese anti-satelltie missile test. On 4 February, the...
by David Todd | Mar 6, 2013 | Science
According to NASA, there is a chance that the newly discovered comet, Comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring), could strike the planet Mars on 19 October 2014. Original estimates of trajectory of the comet generated by the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Program Office at NASA’s...
by David Todd | Feb 28, 2013 | Commercial human spaceflight, exploration, On a Lighter Note, Science, Space tourism, Technology
Dennis Tito and his Inspiration Mars outfit has been giving full details of their plan to send humans around the planet Mars on a free return trajectory using a capsule and inflatable living area. Interestingly, they are asking for older/middle-age couples to apply...
by David Todd | Feb 21, 2013 | Science
A film sequence of radar images of asteroid 2012 DA14 during its close pass of Earth on 15 February has been released by NASA. The imagers were obtained using the 70m diameter Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California as the 4m long asteroid...
by David Todd | Feb 15, 2013 | Science
As the world waited for an expected close pass of an asteroid 2012 DA 14 on the evening of 15 February, a second smaller object, fell onto the Ural mountains in Central Russia on the morning of that day. At 0315 GMT a 15m diameter...
by David Todd | Feb 8, 2013 | History, Science
While the disclosure by the first taikonaut (Chinese astronaut) Yang Liwei that he had eaten dog while on China’s first manned orbital spaceflight mission Shenzhou 5 in 2003, made some dog lovers in the West wince, many in the...
