April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... seventieth year, they show no signs of doing so. About the author Donald F Robertson is a freelance writer based in San Francisco and has published articles on many aspects of space exploration and development. He is also an angel investor or small...
22 December 2015
Falcon 9 Launches Successfully
... orders of magnitude,” or a factor of 100, Musk said in a Dec. 15 speech at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. The launch was originally scheduled for Dec. 19, but delayed to Dec. 20 after a static fire test...
24 May 2016
Astronomers find ultra diffuse galaxy heavy in dark matter
..., made up of hundreds of thousands of stars, orbit within the gravitational field of the ultradiffuse galaxy," adds Aaron Romanowsky of San José State University (USA) one of the authors of the article. "The heavier a galaxy is, the more rapidly...
05 July 2016
Success for JUNO!
... on the night of the 4th of July,” said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. “The mission team did great. The spacecraft did great. We are looking great. It’s a great day...
26 August 2016
All eyes on Jupiter as Juno moves in close tomorrow
... to stern and back again,” said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. “We still have more testing to do, but we are confident that everything is working great, so for this upcoming...
30 August 2016
Is there anybody out there? SETI researchers look to explain mysterious signal
... Observatory considers HD 164595 a good candidate for further SETI investigation. Doug Vakoch, president of METI International (based in San Francisco), has said that his research group is ready to observe and monitor HD 164595 with the Boquete...
