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• Falcon 1 rocket fails to reach orbit

  Private spaceflight company SpaceX lost a Falcon 1 rocket minutes after launch on Saturday, marking the firm's third unsuccessful attempt to reach orbit. Experts say such failures are to be expected in the development of new rockets and the company Read More...
  Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 8:22 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Space exploration, Elon Musk, SpaceX

• The race to space

  Nasa's 50-year history in pictures and sound Read more
  Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 2:21 AM from Betterhumans News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Space exploration, science/nature

• Branson unveils carrier for first space tourists

  The mothership which will launch the first space tourists into the atmosphere was unveiled by Sir Richard Branson in California yesterday. WhiteKnightTwo (WK2), the carrier aircraft which will be used to launch SpaceShipTwo into orbit, "will allow Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:46 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Space exploration, burt rutan, white knight two, spaceship one, richard branson

• Shape-shifting 'smart dust' may explore alien world

  Thousands of miniscule wireless sensors, or "smart dust," could one day be used to explore other planets. Several research groups are developing tiny smart dust devices. Each is a few cubic millimeters in volume and can perform simple sensing task... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:33 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Space exploration, Sensors

• US military plans to put internet router in space

  The US military plans to test an internet router in space, in a project that could also benefit civilian broadband satellite communications. Potential non-military benefits of DoD's Internet Routing In Space (IRIS) program include the ability to r... Read more
  Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:45 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Space exploration, Internet

• Nanotechnology propulsion technology for space exploration

  A new electric propulsion concept proposes to utilize electrostatically charged and accelerated nanoparticles as propellant. Millions of micron-sized nanoparticle thrusters would fit on one square centimeter, allowing the fabrication of highly sc... Read more
  Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 9:40 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanoparticles, Space exploration

• New 3D 'flyovers' let viewers swoop down on Mars

  Dramatic virtual flyovers of NASA's two Mars rover landing sites have been made using 3D imagery from the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The flyovers give a first taste of the probe's astoundingly precise 3D mapping abilities and may hel... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:16 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Virtual reality, Space exploration, Mars

• NASA And Virgin Galactic To Explore Future Cooperation

  NASA officials announced they have signed an agreement with a U.S. company, Virgin Galactic, to explore collaborations on development of future space systems and support to commercial human spaceflight activities. These areas of research will inc... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:24 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Space exploration, Space tourism, NASA, Virgin Galactic

• Interstellar Ark

  "There are three strategies to travel 10.5 light-years from Earth to Epsilon Eridani and bring humanity into a new stellar system: 1) Wait for future discovery of Star Trek physics and go there almost instantaneously 2) Build a relativistic ro... Read more
  Posted Sunday, February 18, 2007 8:35 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Space exploration

• Orbiting Junk, Once a Nuisance, Is Now a Threat

  Space experts have worried that a speeding bit of orbital debris might one day smash a large spacecraft into hundreds of pieces and start a chain reaction, a slow cascade of collisions that would expand for centuries, spreading chaos through the heav... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:19 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Space exploration, Space junk