Kerbal Space Program 0.24 Update Released!
The latest update of the award winning Kerbal Space Program adds a great deal of features to an already great game – we take a look at these additions and how they will force players to adapt. We’ve...
View ArticleDeep Space Digest – August 5
Venus Express gets a boost, Curiosity lives a hard rock lifestyle, Opportunity sets a record, Rosetta prepares to orbit a comet, and Cassini studies Titan. Apologies for the late update this week. In...
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Looking at Landforms on Churyumov-Gerasimenko
After 10 years, Rosetta has arrived at Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Its close-up views reveal an active world that harbors surprisingly complex terrain. Although Rosetta has been taking increasingly...
View ArticleDeep Space Digest – August 15
Chang’e 5 news, Curiosity meets a sand trap, Opportunity on the move, Rosetta reaches a comet, and Cassini scans Saturn’s magnetosphere. Apologies for the late update this week. In the News: Chang’e...
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Novato Meteorite Had a Battered Past
Detailed study shows the Novato meteorite had a battered past, preserving evidence of multiple impacts during its existence. The skies over San Francisco suddenly lit up during mid-evening on October...
View ArticleDeep Space Digest – August 29
Curiosity abandons a drilling target, Opportunity gets a memory reformatting, Rosetta scouts a landing site, and Cassini takes a close look Titan. In the News: Curiosity Although Curiosity’s...
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Copenhagen Suborbital’s latest test writes off HEAT2X rocket
Everybody’s favourite amateur Danish rocket group had another engine test quite recently - while not everything went to plan, nobody could say it wasn’t spectacular. The test on August 16th was meant...
View ArticleShots fired as SpaceX files against Blue Amazon’s patents for “Sea Landing of...
Last week Space X filed a dispute with the United States Patent Office against their rival’s patent for a powered vertical landing of rockets at sea, which forms a key part of Space X’s future plans....
View ArticleNASA Panel: Curiosity Planning Lacks Scientific Focus
A NASA senior panel took Curiosity’s mission management to task, finding that their extended mission plan was “a poor science return for such a large investment” and “lacked scientific focus and...
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Does Europa Have Plate Tectonics?
A paper published in Nature Geoscience on September 7 may hold the answer to a long-standing mystery regarding Europa’s icy shell. Background When Voyager 2 flew by Europa on July 9, 1979, scientists...
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2014 RC Flyby Science
The asteroid 2014 RC swooped by Earth at a distance of only 34,000 km (21,000 miles) on Sunday, September 7. The close approach allowed scientists to make some observations of the small asteroid. While...
View ArticleDeep Space Digest – September 12
Yutu celebrates a holiday, Curiosity arrives at Mt. Sharp, Opportunity formats its memory, Rosetta explores 67P, and Cassini studies Saturn’s atmosphere. In the News: Chang’e 3/Yutu For China’s...
View ArticleSite News: November 2014.
At some point we’ll actually get around to a regular posting schedule. Hello everyone! I know you’re out there as the site usage stats still creep up ever so slightly upward from month to month. Thanks...
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