Inaugural Vega Rocket Poised at Europe’s South American Spaceport
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 2, 2012
1st Fully assembled Vega Rocket on ESA Guiana launch pad for Inaugural Flight – February 2012 ESA’s new Vega rocket is now fully assembled on its launch pad. Final preparations are underway for the rocket’s inaugural flight lofting 9 satellites as early as February 9 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Credits: ESA – [...]
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‘Wayne’s Comics’ #43 With Alexander Finbow From Renegade Arts Entertainment
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 30, 2012
Don’t miss the 43rd episode of the Wayne’s Comics podcast! This time I interview Alexander Finbow, the head of Renegade Arts Entertainment, about many of the projects being produced by them, including The Loxleys And [...] SciFi Pulse
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Does Water Ice Lurk Beneath the Poles of Vesta ?
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 27, 2012
View of the South Pole of Vesta and Rheasilvia Impact Basin – Does Water Ice Lurk Beneath ? This image obtained by Dawn’s framing camera shows the south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta and the circular Rheasilvia impact basin which scientists believe originated by a collision with another asteroid early in the asteroid's history. [...]
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Delta IV Rocket Launches from Cape Canaveral with US Military Satellite
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 20, 2012
A beautiful night for a launch Thursday evening as a heavy-lift Delta IV rocket thundered off the launchpad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, sending a broadband communications satellite into orbit for the US military. Observers at the launch site said they could see the rocket several minutes into the flight, witnessing the separation of [...]
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Syfy UK Season Two Teaser For ‘Lost Girl’ Plus Comments From Kris Holden-Ried
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 12, 2012
Sadly our friends in the USA have to wait until Monday for the first season of Lost Girl, but tomorrow night UK viewers of Syfy Channel will get to see [...] SciFi Pulse
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First GRAIL Twin Enters Lunar Orbit – NASA’s New Year’s Gift to Science
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 1, 2012
GRAIL-A spacecraft achieved Lunar Orbit Insertion on New Year’s Eve. Artists concept shows twin GRAIL spacecraft orbiting the Moon. The twin GRAIL spacecraft will fly in tandem to map the moon’s gravity field with unprecedented precision to unlock hidden secrets about the moons interior composition, determine if it possesses an inner core, and yield a [...]
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IndieNet And Beyond – Top Ten Web Series of 2011
Posted by brandoniswrite on December 29, 2011
A new year is a upon us here at The Indienet and Beyond, which means it is time to look back at 2011 and spotlight the best of the best [...] SciFi Pulse
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‘Doctor Who’ Helps BBC Win The Christmas Day Ratings War
Posted by brandoniswrite on December 28, 2011
Doctor Who ranked third in the overnight ratings for Christmas Day having attracted 8.92 million viewers beating out all other channels in the same time slot. Winning the night [...] SciFi Pulse
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We Have Just Crossed the T-Minus 100 Day Milestone for Launch of Aquarius, the SSEP Mission 1 Payload to ISS
Posted by brandoniswrite on December 26, 2011
We did not want this milestone to go un-noticed. UPDATE: All flight experiments for SSEP Mission 1 to ISS have now been selected, and NCESSE and NanoRacks are working hard to complete the final flight samples list (fluids and solids) to be flown by the student research teams. The list, due today to NanoRacks, will [...]
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Astrophoto: Comet Lovejoy from Canberra by Barry Armstead
Posted by brandoniswrite on December 25, 2011
Comet Lovejoy from Canberra. Image Credit: Barry Armstead Barry Armstead was among the lucky people who were able to capture the amazing show made by Comet Lovejoy in the skies of the Southern hemisphere the past few days. “I got up on Thursday night/Friday morning at 3am, checked the sky and it was a black [...]
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