January 2009
China Building Huge 500-Meter Radio Telescope →
Official ground-breaking ceremonies took place for a gigantic new 500 meter diameter radio telescope in China which will allow astronomers to detect galaxies and pulsars at…
Tohoku University's SPRITE-SAT Successfully... →
The SPRITE-SAT spacecraft designed and built by Tohoku Univeristy, a partner of White Label Space, was successfully launched into space last week on a Japanese H-IIA rocket. The…
NASA's Ares-1 "Stick" Broken in Two →
This video shows the (intentional) separation of the first and second stages of NASA’s planned Ares 1 launcher, which is currently under development as a man-rated replacement for the Space…
Why Send Man Into Space When We Can Send Robots? →
Number of people, including experts and current members of Obama Administration, have been asking this question. Is getting humans onto the Moon, Mars & beyond worth it?
Migrating from @LunarX_EU to @whitelabelspace →
First we would like to thank all the people that have followed us on @LunarX_EU & for all your great comments so far. In the lead up to joining the Google Lunar X-PRIZE we are now migrating over to…
We are migrating over to @whitelabelspace. Please follow our upcoming GLXP team there or subscribe to our blog http://tinyurl.com/5lh25w
Tohoku University's SPRITE-SAT Successfully... →
The SPRITE-SAT spacecraft designed and built by Tohoku Univeristy, a partner of White Label Space, was successfully launched into space last week on a Japanese H-IIA rocket. The…
Inside the Space Shuttle Payload Bay [PIC] →
At Launch Pad 39-B, the Chandra X-ray Observatory sits inside the payload bay of Space Shuttle Columbia, waiting for the doors to close. The combined Chandra/Inertial Upper Stage, seen here, measures…
Is there a Planet X? →
Lurking in the solar system’s dark recesses, rumour has it, is an unsighted world – Planet X, a frozen body perhaps as large as Mars, or even Earth
NASA's Ares-1 "Stick" Broken in Two →
This video shows the (intentional) separation of the first and second stages of NASA’s planned Ares 1 launcher, which is currently under development as a man-rated replacement for the Space…
Electric Rockets for Deep-Space Exploration... →
The next generation of space probes is being powered by highly efficient electric plasma rockets. These rockets—powered by ionized xenon gas—produce very low thrust compared with their solid- or…
Cosmic Log: Pick your space pix →
Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: Here’s your chance to decide which cosmic curiosity will get the star treatment from the Hubble Space Telescope.
JPL to Host High-Tech Conference for Small... →
JPL to Host High-Tech Conference for Small Business
NGC 1579: Trifid of the North →
NGC 1579: Trifid of the North
NASA Mars rover Spirit has a 'senior moment' →
Hum, looks like the long-lived Mars rovers are showing their age. Here’s a report posted Thursday by John Johnson Jr. at the Los Angeles Times, one of our sister papers, about one of the rovers: Five…
SpaceShipOne: A Pilot's View →
This photo has been making the rounds lately. It would be a shame if we didn’t share it as well.
Florida Group Launches Bid to Reserve Retired... →
A grassroots effort hopes to reserve a NASA shuttle in Florida after the fleet’s 2010 retirement.
FAA/USAF gives SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon launches... →
credit SpaceX / The FAA assessment examined the potential impact from 120 launches over five years The US Federal Aviation Administration has posted to the US governemnt’s federal register…
Spacevidcast 2.03 →
The latest broadcast of Spacevidcast:
Spacevidcast Live - Videocasting in the dark - #2.03 from SpaceVidcast on Vimeo.
A Distant Planet Has An Extreme Forecast →
Astronomers have observed a planet orbiting a distant star that experiences temperature swings of hundreds of degrees in a matter of hours. Greg Laughlin, author on the Nature study, says weather…
High Altitude Balloons Creating New Jobs →
ESA backed high altitude balloon experiments are training students for high demand careers in science and engineering.
New comet may be visible with the naked eye →
A two-tailed comet that is probably visiting the solar system for the first time should become visible in the next few weeks
Dancing asteroid spirals close to Earth →
The Earth had company this week when an asteroid in a corkscrewing orbit practically grazed us – passing by just 400,000 miles away
NASA Sets Briefing With Members of First... →
NASA will hold a media briefing at 1 p.m. CST, Wednesday, March 4, with the International Space Station residents who will usher in an era of six-person crews.
#spacemashup contest. Winner of the day #1... →
During a twitter conversation today a new word popped up “Marsheimers”. Here at White Label Space HQ we started to discuss what other space related word we could mash together & then thought “why not…
Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean - Image →
Credits: ESA
The Moon - Image →
Credits: ISRO
#spacemashup contest. Winner of the day #1... →
During a twitter conversation today a new word popped up “Marsheimers”. Here at White Label Space HQ we started to discuss what other space related word we could mash together & then thought “why not…
Briefs: Parabolic flight opportunities; NM and... →
A call from NASA for proposals to test technologies with space applications on parabolic flights: NASA Seeks Technologies For Testing During Reduced Gravity Flights - NASA - Jan.29.09
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NASA Education Introduces Do-It-Yourself Podcast →
We’re excited to introduce the Do-It-Yourself Podcast activity in the For Educators section of NASA.gov. We’ll provide audio and video clips of astronauts performing work in space and on the ground.
Detailed Review of X PRIZEs in Discover →
Should American Science Be More Like “American Idol”? - Discover: One morning while I was visiting, Diamandis sat in his corner office with his assistant at the time, Angel Panlasigui, and waded…
Mars Rover Doing Well After Memory Glitch →
NASA’s Mars Spirit rover appears to have recovered from a sudden bout of amnesia.
Skeptics’ Guide uncut →
At The Amaz!ng Meeting 6, I sat with the crew of Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe and we had a fun hour chatting away. Eventually that made it to a podcast, edited way down. But I found out recently…
NASA Mars rover Spirit has a 'senior moment' →
Hum, looks like the long-lived Mars rovers are showing their age. Here’s a report posted Thursday by John Johnson Jr. at the Los Angeles Times, one of our sister papers, about one of the rovers: Five…
Russia Space Agency Plans To Build Own Orbital... →
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 30, 2009 - Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will propose to the government the construction of a low-orbit space station to support future exploration of the Moon…
Scientists Find that Low Self-Esteem &... →
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.” ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk A Galaxy…
SpaceShipOne: A Pilot's View →
This photo has been making the rounds lately. It would be a shame if we didn’t share it as well.
Billions and Billions of Baby Stars →
When Carl Sagan said there were billions and billions of stars, he wasn’t wrong. But just how many billions, we still don’t know. Moreover, scientists would like to know how many of…
Message from the President on NASA's Day of... →
“The arrival of a new year reminds us that life is a journey, one that takes us on many unexpected paths. NASA’s role is to pioneer journeys into the unknown for the benefit of humanity. Along…
Twitterers #Remember_Challenger Disaster →
Space-loving Twitterers recalled their memories of the Challenger disaster Wednesday, which tragically disintegrated during its takeoff 23 years ago, killing all seven astronauts…
"Sudden Death" Threatens Quantum Computing →
Futuristic applications of entanglement — a mysterious phenomenon in which two quantum states are linked, breaking the traditional laws of physics — may be threatened by another…
Beginnings of a Brown Dwarf Census →
Just how common are brown dwarfs? The answer is still up for debate, for stars like these (with masses less than 0.05 that of the Sun) are so small that they do not burn hydrogen, and as they age,…
NASA to Hold News Conference about Next Space... →
NASA managers have scheduled a news conference at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for no earlier than 6 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 3, to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch.
Designer Life Forms to Convert CO2 to Fuel →
“We have 20 million genes which I call the design components of the future. We are limited here only by our imagination.” Craig Venter, Geneticist Craig Venter has been making…
Briefs: Masten Space update; Euro space tourism... →
David Masten posts an update with videos on developments and plans at MSS: New Engine Enters Testing - Masten Space Systems.
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Following up on yesterdays report on a European suborbital space…
Cassini finds hydrocarbon rains may fill Titan... →
Recent images of Titan from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft affirm the presence of lakes of liquid hydrocarbons by capturing changes in the lakes brought on by rainfall. For several years, Cassini…
OK, so maybe NASA didn’t fake that image →
What you are about to read here is something you will never, ever, ever see on a conspiracy theory site: an admission that the theory is wrong.
Now, my last blog post was obviously…
Space Elevators →
Attempts to Contact Aliens Date Back More Than 150 Years: Scientists have been dreaming up ways to talk to alien.. http://tinyurl.com/ddze37
Spaceport American and Spaceport Sweden Memorandum of Agreement: by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty From Space.. http://tinyurl.com/b8qrtv