NASA has released a phenomenal image:
Big Blue Marble, 2012 Edition. Click through and download the hi-res image to zoom in. It's worth your time.
Taken by the the Suomi NPP spacecraft on January 4. Ball Aerospace built the NPP spacecraft; the instrument, the snappily named Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), is Goddard's work. Unbelievable.
If it looks…
I headed down to Colorado Public Radio about a week ago to record a Colorado Matters piece about the book. Available here: http://bit.ly/v4rn2E. It was a cool experience. The soundproofed studio not much bigger than a walk-in closet, the questions about Kepler, Hubble and (biaxial) pointing controls. On-air man Pat Mack and producer Michelle Fulcher did a great…
Why do space missions go over budget? John Kelly of Florida Today did a solid summary of some of the key issues in his Saturday column, based, it looks like, on a Government Accountability Office report on the same topic. The key points are similar to those I made here based on my experience writing…
Elon Musk and Alan Stern teamed up for a public event sponsored by University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) 10 days ago (April 29). With the caveat that I'm not as versed in New Space as I am "old space" (what do you call the space program as we know it…