Archive : Space Tech

Canon introduces new long-zoom digital cameras, the PowerShot SX500 IS and PowerShot SX160 IS it features 30x and 16x optical zoom, respectively. Both models have 16 Megapixel image sensor and powerful DIGIC 4 image processor. They include Canon’s Intelligent IS system that automatically chooses from...

There are GPS satellites in the orbit, it helps in detecting the earthquakes on the ground more accurately and rapidly, NASA is taking advantage of these satellites that is announced by NASA. Faster detection allows for the advance notice of any tsunamis that the earthquakes may create, and it will...

More than a year after he lost his first contact with the Mars Rover Spirit’s NASA finally decided to throw in the towel. Yesterday the agency confirmed that all planned communication with the robot on May 25 and finished seven trade missions to end. NASA had hoped that the forthcoming spring,...

Iran has sent only a small “Life Capsule” capable of a monkey in space for Kavoshgar-4 (Explorer-4) rocket, a step forward for the explosion of the space program in the country. The AP reports that the capsule flew 75 miles on a track and follows launches communication satellites, and a capsule...

NASA is working on solar shields so that those can be used to offer defense to power grids that are in surface space. After all, solar storms are no small matter, being seen from as far as 93 million miles away, and even at such a huge distance, injure can occur to power grids – which why NASA...

Virgin Galactic’s commercial suborbital spaceship completed its first free flight on Sunday, gliding from an altitude of 45,000 feet to a landing at the Mojave Air Space Port in California. The spaceship, named VSS Enterprise, has made four previous forays into the air attached beneath a carrier...

The Earthly impact of the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle has always seemed like one of the more reliable and straightforward elements in the vast array of climate variables. On the rise, solar radiation increases and so warms the planet a little — the thinking goes — and on the way down...

After a bonus day in space, a NASA astronaut and her two Russian crewmates are back on terra firma, thanks to some impromptu electrical jiggering to free their stuck Soyuz capsule from a docking port on the International Space Station. VIA: Discovery News

Nothing lights up the cosmos like a supernova. When a star dies in such a spectacular fashion, its demise releases colossal quantities of mass and energy, but why does a star explode to begin with? Only a few varieties of stars end their lives this way and astronomers sort the explosions into two basic...

The Japanese Space Agency (Jaxa) has launched a rocket transport the country’s first GPS satellite. The H-IIA rocket was launched from the Tanegashima Space Canter carrying the satellite named “Michibiki”, which means to “to lead” in Japanese. It will work with the existing...