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On October 22, it was reported that Canadian Coast Guard Ship Hudson was carrying out its annual fall ocean conditions survey and sailing through water measuring 20 to 24 C. For us Fahrenheit people, that's 68-75.2 degrees. That's room temperature water. Near Novia Scotia. In Fall. The four-engine Hudson slowed from 14 to 10 knots,... Continue Reading →
#ICYMI We're on our way to #Mercury! 🚀 #BepiColombo blasted off on an #Ariane5 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou at 01:45GMT/03:45 CEST this morning with @ESA_Bepi @JAXA_MMO & @ESA_MTM onboard. Full story: https://t.co/uXTlVD9jXX pic.twitter.com/wZqZtVADqf — BepiColombo (@BepiColombo) October 20, 2018 Watch the launch replay: https://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2018/10/BepiColombo_launch_replay BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury, in combination with... Continue Reading →
We are all taught that failure is bad as we learn in school. You were grounded for getting Fs and rewarded for getting As. We love to report space victories, but the truth is, we learn from our failures. On October 11, a seemingly routine Roscosmos launch to the International Space Station went a bit... Continue Reading →
In 2010, Cassini began a second, seven-year-long, mission called the Cassini Solstice Mission. This final mission concluded with a phase known as The Grand Finale -- 22 deep dives between Saturn's cloud tops and innermost ring before it plunged into the giant planet's atmosphere. "The Grand Finale orbits were so named because they not only... Continue Reading →
Sure, you can pick out Orion, the big and little dippers, and the North star. Maybe you even know your other zodiac constellations, but those are all in the sky visible to our naked eye. But if you are mapping gamma rays, you can see many more stars in space than from Earth. Scientists using... Continue Reading →
Where does your inspiration come from? Where do inspirations come from? Mostly books and movies. My favorite thing to do is dream up some impossible scenario or task for my characters and stick them in the scene to see what they do. When was that moment when you realized that language had power? The moment... Continue Reading →
As we are kind of alien nuts over here at Hawk and Young, and as it's totally possible that some form of life is out there somewhere, we are so pleased to report that Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found two new planets orbiting 'near by' stars and 73 possible other planets causing dips... Continue Reading →
If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you know all about NASA and SpaceX, but you hardly hear about India and ISRO - Indian Space Research Organisation. Since 1993, India has been launching satellites for other countries, contracting their reliable rocket as a taxi for satellites. They only failed 2 or 3 times to deliver... Continue Reading →
This is not a joke pulled from cartoons, this is a real space story. Sometime in the night of August 30th a micrometeorite struck the outside of the Souyez MS-09, which is a Russian spacecraft attached to the International Space Station. It is not a part of the return module, which means they can... Continue Reading →
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