Richard Feynman is something of a legend in science circles these days.  Posthumously, he became regarded as an insightful polymath, with his hands in the development of the atomic bomb (which…

While we chug away on our Tubesat-style picosatellite, in the 10x10x10cm range, two independent efforts are working on even smaller satellites, and I thought they were worth a nod. An aerospace…

I'm working to make a list of potential conferences for meeting other Cubesat (picosatellite) builders.  A quick search on 'cubesat conferences' primarily turns up past events and past…

Why would anyone build a Tubesat when the Cubesat open standard tends to dominate the picosatellite world?  Well, first, there's only been a bit over a dozen Cubesats, so it's a wide open field…

MSNBC reported on the latest set of new NASA prizes: NASA today announced three new competitions offering a total of $5 million in prizes — and only one of them involves actually putting something in…

Nasa's GOES robot satellite discovered a massive solar flare on the surface of the sun on August 9th. This discovered flare released a massive amount of radiation and high-energy particles into the…

Science 2.0 favorite Lawrence Krauss of ASU tackled the James Webb Space Telescope issue on the Richard Dawkins website and a commenter there linked to my rationalization that canceling it might be…

With the end of the space shuttle, we may also be seeing an end to manned space travel as a science endeavor.  I am not saying we shouldn't send people into space, we certainly should, but it…

The Redemption of Gus Grissom The 50th anniversary of Alan Shepard's flight, the first American in space, was something of a big deal in pop culture.  The 50th anniversary of John Glenn orbiting…

Some cry that it is daft to make your own satellite (ignoring 40 years of AMSAT history). Others exclaim that, hey, whatever I am doing, they can do better.  To the former, my building Project…