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An Ancient Solar System...: Last of the US-German Moon team dies, and whatever happened to the Jade Rabbit?
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An Ancient Solar System. The most up-to-date space and science websites. Thursday, 7 May 2015. Last of the US-German Moon team dies, and whatever happened to the Jade Rabbit? The next two weeks are about moving house for me, so the blogging might be a bit patchy. That said. Last of the German-US Moon shot engineers dies at 95:. SpaceX succesfully tests the abort motors for its Dragon capsule:. The rabbit that won't quit:. Above: OK, not a rabbit. In fact it's a wheeled, radar scanning, space robot th...
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An Ancient Solar System...: S.A.B.R.E and space Geckos
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An Ancient Solar System. The most up-to-date space and science websites. Thursday, 23 April 2015. SABRE and space Geckos. Even though I'm deep into planning a deep space mission to an undiscovered planet. ok I have lots of work and a mouse nest in my flat, and that's why I'm really busy. but even though I'm a bit pushed there're a few things I can't resist telling you about:. S A B R.E. Above: A run down on the SABRE engine, courtesy of Reaction Engines. Elsewhere in the Universe:. Did you know there's g...
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An Ancient Solar System...: September 2013
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An Ancient Solar System. The most up-to-date space and science websites. Friday, 13 September 2013. Worlds on the edge of knowledge: The dark worlds. Leave some feedback, I get better at this, you get a more interesting read! As nerdy as ever! Whaddya mean I blatantly ripped off the title of some superhero movie? Above: Neil DeGrasse Tyson welcomes Voyager to interstellar space. But why the big hooha? What's out on the farthest edge of the Suns light? Bizarre worlds of the Kuiper belt. Even with our best...
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An Ancient Solar System...: The race for the next space drive heats up....
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An Ancient Solar System. The most up-to-date space and science websites. Sunday, 17 May 2015. The race for the next space drive heats up. The race to the next space drive heats up. Firstly some breaking news: A Russian Proton rocket has exploded eight minutes after launch, destroying its cargo which included a Mexican comsat. This will be a big blow for the Russian space agency, who very recently lost a robotic freighter. Is a potentially revolutionary mission of a different type, launching on the the sa...
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An Ancient Solar System...: Is time distorted across the universe?
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An Ancient Solar System. The most up-to-date space and science websites. Monday, 11 May 2015. Is time distorted across the universe? The history of dark matter, and our search to pin down what it actually is, is fraught with difficulty: We're confronted with a universe where an invisible force, which we cannot directly detect except by the effects of its gravity, is altering the rate at which the galaxies themselves spin. To find any definitive evidence of dark matter (beyond its gravitational effects wh...
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An Ancient Solar System...: New Horizons begins to see Pluto, and ISS videos....
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An Ancient Solar System. The most up-to-date space and science websites. Wednesday, 13 May 2015. New Horizons begins to see Pluto, and ISS videos. This week is turning out to be a busy one, not that my fellow space nerds and I are complaining! Pluto's moons come into view:. As the New Horizons space probe. Nears Pluto it's beginning to see features on the surface of the icy dwarf planet. A few days later the Moons Syx and Keberos are beginning to be visible as well. Above: Pluto and Charon (a view taken ...
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An Ancient Solar System...: Q and A with Professor Wright of G-HAT - hunting for Dyson structures and extra terrestrial waste energy
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An Ancient Solar System. The most up-to-date space and science websites. Sunday, 3 May 2015. Q and A with Professor Wright of G-HAT - hunting for Dyson structures and extra terrestrial waste energy. Searching for alien super civilisations with G-HAT. Over the last couple of weeks you may well have seen headlines like ' Search for alien life in 100,000 galaxies draws a blank. Since even a very advanced civilisation shouldn't. The results from G-HAT that have generated the headlines were the result of winn...
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An Ancient Solar System...: EM drive and Starsailing... the road to a real stardrive?
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An Ancient Solar System. The most up-to-date space and science websites. Thursday, 30 April 2015. EM drive and Starsailing. the road to a real stardrive? The hunt is on for the next big thing in space drives: When ion drive. Came onto the scene they opened up a whole range of destinations such as Ceres and Vesta for exploration, with their low-thrust-high -fficiency combo. But what's the next step along the road to hyperdrive? The wild card: EM drive. Yes there's more to it than that: There's a magnetron.
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An Ancient Solar System...: Massive 'gap' in the universe discovered, and other finds from space...
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An Ancient Solar System. The most up-to-date space and science websites. Tuesday, 21 April 2015. Massive 'gap' in the universe discovered, and other finds from space. This week is pretty busy for me (with real world stuff, not just because I've discovered Daredevil on Netflix) but there're already a few bits and pieces of news I'd be daft not to make sure to mention:. Immense void in the Universe discovered:. Newest images from Ceres:. The latest pictures from the Dawn mission, settling into its orbit of...
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An Ancient Solar System...: A quick note on the new news from Ceres
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An Ancient Solar System. The most up-to-date space and science websites. Tuesday, 12 May 2015. A quick note on the new news from Ceres. For a while now the Dawn space probe. Above: An animation composed of images taken by dawn, showing Cere's spinning undernaeth the probe. notice how many tensy little bright spots now join the big one. Courtesy of JPL/NASA. No Don't be silly. The bright spots aren't the whole of the strange story though. Ceres has a number of enigmatic mountain like features. The...The m...
