Monday, October 17, 2016

Blue Origin

Blue Origin plans to start flying commercial, suborbital flights for paying passengers as early as 2018.

BO is also already working on an orbital system.

Saturday, October 15, 2016

ExoMars

ExoMars, the joint ESA-Russia mission, will land on Mars early next week.

The mission consists of an ESA lander and a Russian orbiter.

Friday, October 14, 2016

Perspective

JPMorgan Chase announced quarterly revenues of more than $25 billion today.

NASA's next yearly budget is set at about $19 billion.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

New Dwarf Planet

Astronomers may have found a new dwarf planet far beyond Pluto.

The body, which is only 330 miles across, orbits the Sun once every 1,100 Earth years.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Obama On Space

President Obama, on  CNN, reiterated his goal of landing humans on Mars in the 2030s.

Of course, he will be out of office in a few weeks.  Neither Clinton nor Trump has really addressed space policy.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Project Blue

A private group is undertaking Project Blue, an effort to put a small telescope into space to search for Earth-like worlds in the Alpha Centauri system.

Estimated cost of the project is between $10 and $50 million.

Monday, October 10, 2016

Dust Storms

NASA thinks it has discovered a way to predict global dust storms on Mars.

A new study says the next global storm should develop shortly.