Space

Build your own Sputnik

by Haitham Sabbah October 26, 2007

And possibly your Sputnik will get a chance to be launched to space. Isn’t this cool? BBC Magazine describes here ‘How to build your own Sputnik’ and promises that they’ll investigate how to get your Sputniks launched. It seems incredible that the technology that went into building the first successful satellite 50 years ago can [...]

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Raining Red Aliens in India

by Haitham Sabbah June 4, 2006

As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis�s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples�water taken [...]

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Ras Al Khaimah Spaceport

by Haitham Sabbah February 17, 2006

Few days ago, the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah has announced the creation of RAK Airways, the UAE’s fourth national carrier which will start operations by the end of 2006. I thought, what the heck? Four carriers in UAE, what do they need all that for? And RAK… how many traveler do they actually have [...]

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Moon-to-Mars Plans Emerge

by Haitham Sabbah September 19, 2005

NASA is set to unveil today details of its new space architecture for Moon-to-Mars trip. Last week SPACE.com and Space News reported that NASA will announce today plans to send four astronauts to Moon in 2018 and sending humans to Mars thereafter. On the list: A re-usable vehicle that’s safer than the shuttle; technology for [...]

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On this day!

by Haitham Sabbah August 11, 2005

On this day, last year, I said: Perseid Meteor Shower – This week, the skies above the Northern Hemisphere will be peppered with little bits of space debris that create the annual Perseid meteor shower. It could be the best display in several years, peaking Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

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China to send pig sperm to space

by Haitham Sabbah July 19, 2005

China is planning to study the effects of space on sperm, by sending the semen from pedigree pigs into orbit. Some 40 grams of pig sperm will be taken on board the Shenzhou VI spacecraft for its October launch. Some of the sperm will be kept outside the spacecraft’s biological capsule and some inside, according [...]

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Russian sues Nasa for comet upset

by Haitham Sabbah July 7, 2005

Hours after a Nasa probe crashed into Comet Tempel 1, legal reverberations were felt in a Moscow court. A case which could see Nasa pay a local amateur astrologist millions of dollars in damages. Writer Marina Bay claims that by slamming the probe into the comet, Nasa endangered the future of civilisation. “Nobody has yet [...]

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Happy 15th birthday Hubble

by Haitham Sabbah April 26, 2005

Happy 15th birthday Hubble. One of the coolest slide shows ever.

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Toutatis: Almost Too Close

by Haitham Sabbah September 28, 2004

No, no… this is not real. It’s just simulation of asteroid impact if Kerry get elected. Vice President Dick Cheney echoed earlier remarks, warning the United States will risk direct impact by the asteroid Toutatis if voters make the wrong choice. IMO, the impact would be the same either (Bush/Kerry) get elected!

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Monster Collision of Galaxies

by Haitham Sabbah September 25, 2004

ESA (European Space Agency) reports: An international team of scientists has observed a nearby head-on collision of two galaxy clusters that has smashed together thousands of galaxies and millions upon millions of stars. It is one of the most powerful events ever witnessed. Such collisions are second only to the Big Bang in total energy [...]

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Robots Searching the Skies for Earth-Like Planet

by Haitham Sabbah September 22, 2004

Wired News reports that a British astronomers have just begun to operate RoboNet-1.0, a global network of the world’s biggest robotic telescopes, controlled by intelligent software to effectively act as one giant eye that can be focused anywhere in the sky within a minute. They developed the network to allow astronomers to follow up unpredictable [...]

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Flying Triangles

by Haitham Sabbah September 5, 2004

There’s a strange article on space.com right now about the continued sightings of Flying Triangle UFOs. A man familiar with the sightings says the sightings of the triangles are akin to those of the then-secret stealth fighter and bomber back in the 80s: But it does not appear to be consistent with the covert patterns [...]

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Perseid Meteor Shower

by Haitham Sabbah August 11, 2004

This week, the skies above the Northern Hemisphere will be peppered with little bits of space debris that create the annual Perseid meteor shower. It could be the best display in several years, peaking Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Here are 10 cool facts you can use to impress friends and family late at night [...]

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Interplanetary Laser Communication

by Haitham Sabbah August 10, 2004

MIT-NASA team to test first interplanetary laser communication link. A NASA?MIT Lincoln Laboratory team will forge the first laser communication link between Mars and Earth. This unique experiment, part of NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration, will greatly benefit the transmission of data from robotic spacecraft. In 2010, the Mars Laser Communication Demonstration (MLCD) will test [...]

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Mission to Mercury Has Liftoff

by Haitham Sabbah August 3, 2004

We Have Liftoff! MESSENGER is away! The spacecraft was launched from Launch Pad 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 2:15:56 a.m. EDT aboard a three-stage Boeing Delta II rocket. the first spacecraft in 30 years to head to the sun’s closest planet. The probe, named Messenger, rocketed away in the pre-dawn moonlight [...]

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