Celestial 'surfing' offers hope of cheap and efficient space travel

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP Shedding Light On Permanently ...

By: dustgeer

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on JuneJune 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. The Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP), developed by Southwest Research InstituteInstitute, is an integral part of the LRO science

6 days ago

Shuttle Atlantis docks with space station

By: inamshah

The space shuttle Atlantis successfully docked Wednesday with the International Space Station and the hatch separating the crews was opened for the traditional welcoming ceremony, Nasa said.The shuttle and its six astronauts left Florida's Kennedy Space Centre without a hitch on Monday on a 11-day voyage to deliver a 20,000-pound (9,071-kilogram) ...

9 days ago

The Best Inventions of 2009

By: intellectual

The Telescope for Invisible Stars It's no secret that space is cold. But in some places, it's so frigid that light can't radiate in the visible spectrum, which makes celestial bodies invisible. Now the Herschel Space Observatory is exposing them. Launched in May by the European Space Agency, Herschel scans the skies in the infrared spectrum. ...

12 days ago

Bring Metro Rail Projects under EIA Notification

By: chnarendra

Prominent civil society activists urging the union minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh to immediately issue an amendment to the EIA Notification 2006 including the Metro Rail Projects in the Schedule so that they undergo a full review of their environmental and social impacts based on public hearings and consultations....

17 days ago