by Michael Belfiore | Apr 21, 2013 | Blog
Now, for the first time, America has two, not just one, launch vehicles in operation for reaching the International Space Station. The Antares rocket, built and operated by Orbital Science Corporation, lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia on a test flight to orbit...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 18, 2013 | Blog
It was my mother who first alerted me to the impending crisis in weather forecasting. Because funding has declined, America’s current 90-satellite fleet of Earth-observing satellites will drop to just 20 by 2020. My mother has been an avid weather watcher since...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 9, 2013 | Blog
NASA has included an item for capturing an asteroid in this financial year’s budget request. Two companies have launched in the last year dedicated to mining asteroids. There’s no doubt in my mind that asteroids represent the next frontier for both human...
