In case you haven’t heard, a larger black spot was recently, er, spotted on Jupiter. Preliminary analysis indicates that it was probably caused by the impact of a comet or asteroid (and not millions of self replicating alien computers attempting to ignite a fusion reaction in the planet as I first suspected). The impact was [...]
Iran recently launched a small communications and research satellite into orbit. To most this might be just another country entering the space race, but to me it sets off alarm bells. The ability to put things in orbit also gives you the ability to bring that orbital object down pretty much anywhere on the face [...]
The launch on August 8, 2007 of the Space Shuttle Endeavour went well. I had a pretty good viewing area right across from the cape in Titusville, FL. They won’t let you get very close to the pad. I messed up because there are two launch pads that the shuttle is launched from. It was [...]