Tag: Space
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Israeli-based SpaceIL gets set for 2017 moon race with Spaceflight’s help
A rendering of the planned SpaceIL robotic lander. Credit: SpaceIL Israeli-based Team SpaceIL has signed up to launch a robotic lander to the moon on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in the latter half of 2017, thanks to an arrangement with Seattle-based Spaceflight. SpaceIL will be a “co-lead” customer for the launch, the organizers of…
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This photo archive of Apollo astronauts’ pics on Flickr will blow your mind
Photo via Flickr/Project Apollo Archive This has to be one of the most impressive photo archives on earth — Project Apollo Archive is thousands of photos taken by Apollo astronauts on Flickr. To date, nearly 12,000 photos have been loaded, all taken by Apollo astronauts during missions to the moon. As the Planetary Society notes, the archive is the work…
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Mars mystery solved? Dark streaks linked to salty water trails
These dark streaks, shown flowing downhill in a false-color image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are inferred to have been formed by contemporary flowing water. (Credit: NASA / JPL / Univ. of Arizona) For years, scientists have puzzled over dark streaks that appear and disappear on the surface of Mars – and now they’re confident enough…
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NASA study: Flying air taxis could be as cheap as an Uber ride, and faster
An artist’s conception shows a vertical-takeoff craft rising from an urban helipad, using a distributed electric propulsion system. (Credit: Joby Aviation via YouTube) Taking a ride on a flying air taxi could become as cheap as taking an Uber ride, and get you where you’re going in a third of the time, according to a NASA concept…
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GeekWire Summit is one week away! Check out the agenda for our biggest event ever
We’re one week away from the GeekWire Summit, our biggest event ever and a must-attend conference for anyone interested in technology and business. Tickets are still available, but they’re going fast, so be sure to grab yours today. This is the fourth year of the GeekWire Summit, which convenes business leaders, engineers, investors and innovators for…
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Interview: Seattle girls launch a balloon spacecraft to the edge of space, and NASA takes note
Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung at GeekWire this week. Our guests on the GeekWire radio show this week are Rebecca Yeung, 10, and Kimberly Yeung, 8 — two sisters from Seattle who built a spacecraft out of wood, broken arrow shafts and a high-altitude balloon, sending it to the edge of space this past weekend. Their project — and…
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These Seattle girls plan to launch a hand-built spacecraft into the upper atmosphere this weekend
Kimberly and Rebecca Yeung built the platform for their balloon in their garage. A new aircraft is being tested this weekend in central Washington. But this one wasn’t built by Boeing or Amazon. Nope. The Loki Lego Launcher is the creation of two enterprising Seattle girls who love robotics, engineering and space. Kimberly and Rebecca Yeung are hoping…
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Drones meet planes: U.S. pilots encounter 650 UAVs so far this year, a 173% increase over 2014
Photo via Shutterstock Watch where you’re flying up there in the blue skies. A new report from the Federal Aviation Administration indicates that there were 650 cases where U.S. pilots encountered unmanned aerial aircraft through Aug. 9 of this year. Drone flying in the Space Needle’s shadow. That’s up from 238 cases in all of 2014.…
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Moon photobombs Earth in amazing video from DSCOVR satellite
The moon passes across Earth’s disk in a July 16 image captured by the DSCOVR satellite from its observation point, a million miles out in space. The Americas and the Pacific Ocean are visible beneath Earth’s cloud cover. Because the moon was moving while DSCOVR acquired the data for this three-filter image, there appears to…
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Seattle’s Museum of Flight to show off Apollo moon rocket parts recovered by Bezos Expeditions
The thrust chamber from an Apollo / Saturn V F-1 rocket engine sits on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, awaiting recovery. (Credit: Bezos Expeditions) Experts are wrapping up their conservation work on the decades-old Saturn V rocket engine parts that were recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, thanks to an effort backed…