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The α Centauri system, which is currently the closest known star system to the Sun (and also known by the ancient name, Rigil Kentaurus), contains three […]
With the threat to cut further funding for NASA’s successful and long-running Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission in the news, it seems hard to believe that there […]
With the recent Orion EFT-1 test flight and the anticipated test flights of the Boeing and SpaceX craft supporting NASA’s commercial crew transport program, these are […]
Back when I was growing up, my father was into model railroading – a hobby as common back then as it is today, possibly even more […]
Nanosatellites are generally defined as small satellites with masses in the one to ten-kilogram range. With the growing availability of off-the-shelf hardware and standardized nanosatellites like […]
The past couple of years have been eventful ones for those with an interest in habitable extrasolar planets. The media has been filled with stories about […]
For half a decade, the world has witnessed an unprecedented stream of planetary discoveries from NASA’s Kepler mission which started its primary mission on May 13, […]
While the history of spaceflight is filled with well-known spacecraft that have flown historic missions, it could be argued that there are a far greater number […]
The New Year is certainly proving to be a very productive one for NASA’s Kepler mission. With the detailed analysis of the data from its primary […]
As we marvel at the daily operations on the International Space Station (ISS), most do not realize that much of the technology and many of the […]
One of the objectives of NASA’s Kepler mission, as well as one of the important drivers of its design, was to detect Earth-size planets in Earth-like […]
The news this week has been filled with stories about Kepler reaching its milestone of 1,000 confirmed planetary discoveries with eight of those newfound planets advertised […]
