Tag: Star Wars
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Out of this world! Seattle sisters launch their Loki Lego 2.0 balloon craft past 100,000 feet
Loki Lego Launcher 2.0 soars high above central Washington on July 30. (Courtesy of Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung) Update: A new YouTube video, below, captures the preparation and launch of Loki Lego Launcher 2.0. The girls have also update their blog with a mission debrief post, which discusses data from the onboard solar experiment as…
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‘Star Wars’ tech: Latest threat suggests the bad guys have perfected plasma physics
A detail from the poster of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” shows Starkiller Base. (Lucasfilm / Disney) Spoiler Alert! This post doesn’t reveal any major plot twists, but it does explore a significant element of the new movie. Stop reading now if you want it to remain a surprise. X-wing fighter technology hasn’t changed all that much…
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Hubble Space Telescope salutes ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ with cosmic lightsaber
An image from the Hubble Space Telescope focuses on jets of hot gas blazing forth from a protostar in the middle of a dusty cloud known as Herbig-Haro 24. (Credit: NASA / ESA) Leave it to the scientists behind the Hubble Space Telescope to capitalize on the craziness over “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” Their…
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Can’t wait for ‘Star Wars’? The force is strong with ‘Childhood’s End’ and ‘The Expanse’ on TV
Like Han Solo, spaceship pilot Alex Kamal (played by Cas Anvar) has a complicated past in “The Expanse,” which has its TV premiere on Syfy tonight. (Photo by: Rafy/Syfy) While you’re waiting for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” to invade theaters this week, you can tune in a couple of other star wars on TV…
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Asteroid-mining company raises $1M for world’s first crowdfunded space telescope
It’s official: The world’s first crowdfunded, public use space telescope will be sent into space within two years. Planetary Resources, the Bellevue-based asteroid-mining company, met its Kickstarter campaign goal of $1 million on Thursday, as more than 12,000 backers pitched in to launch a customized version of the company’s Arkyd-100 robot spaceship with an external camera into near-Earth…
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Asteroid-mining company launches $1M Kickstarter campaign for world’s first crowdfunded space telescope
When Planetary Resources first announced its plans to mine near-earth asteroids last year, the response was impressive. More than 3,500 people applied for jobs, another 2,500 inquired about investing and nearly 50,000 reached out wanting to get involved in some way or another. While the Bellevue-based company could only allow a select few onto the team, it knew there…