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Tag: Space

SpaceX Succeeds In Delivering Cargo to ISS And Landing Falcon 9

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Fareeha Jamal

SpaceX have restored themselves, after a former failed attempt of landing their Falcon 9 rocket booster, through a positive delivery to the space station and landing their reusable booster. As per Ars Technica, on this ride, the Falcon 9 touched down at the launch station in Florida, where it took off hours earlier instead of…

Astronomers Discover Youngest Exoplanet

Posted on June 27, 2016 by AKS

Astronomers have discovered an infant planet called the K2-33b that is orbiting really close to a distant star. While the discovery of new exoplanets is not new, with Kepler and Hubble Telescopes having revealed no fewer than 3000 planets, but all these planets are in their mid-late stages of life. The K2-33b, however, is an…

Found GoPro Reveals Incredible Footage of The Earth As Seen From The Edge of Space

Posted on November 25, 2015 by AKS

Call it luck, coincidence or simply a miracle, but a GoPro camera that had been lost for over two years has been found with all its incredible footage intact. Back in 2013, a group of students from the Stanford University launched a GoPro camera attached to a weather balloon to the very edge of space. It…

NASA’s 3D Printed TurboPump Is A Geek’s Dream Come True

Posted on October 17, 2015February 18, 2016 by AKS

Even though 3D-printed rocket components is not a new thing for NASA, the newly printed turbopump is being hailed as the “one of the most complex, 3D-printed rocket engine parts ever made.” Mainly because previously the components built were relatively basic like combustion chambers and fuel injectors. The sheer complexity of the turbopump makes it…

Ballantine Has Created Whiskey Glass That Can Be Used In Zero Gravity

Posted on September 22, 2015 by AKS

Ballantine has created a whiskey glass that works in zero gravity. The idea is based on the “Stay True” concept of the brand to keep their consumers loyal even in the future when space travel will be a norm. With space tourism already spreading its wings, it was necessary to invent something like this and…

CRS-7 Crashes Minutes After Launch

Posted on July 4, 2015July 4, 2015 by EMBE

SpaceX’s CRS-7 explodes in midair shortly after its liftoff, rendering another supply mission to the ISS in failure. Launched from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:21 am EDT, atop a Falcon 9 rocket, the unmanned Dragon Cargo ship was declared clear by the SpaceX launch control with no problems and…

15 Powerful Pictures that Tell a Story

Posted on October 21, 2013February 1, 2014 by maverick

Quality does not always produce the best picture, the right moment does. Throughout time, pictures have played a great part in history; they convey a message that is too big for words. Capturing the true essence of the moment or the entire era, here are some wonderful pictures from around the world that will leave…

5 Animals That Have Been Launched into Space

Posted on October 11, 2013October 11, 2013 by janji.bouy

The first word when man landed on the moon was “ok” but men and women are not the only living organism who have been launched into space. Our today’s article is about the animals that were forced to volunteer by us humans to be launched into space. Here is the list of animals   5-…

Mars One plans human settlement on the Red Planet by 2023

Posted on February 4, 2013February 11, 2017 by Basil Rafiq

Mars One, a Dutch company, is aiming to establish a permanent human settlement on the Red Planet.

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