Tag archive: Space Station

As we prepare for NASA’s space shuttle program to come to a close, China has unveiled its plan to create its own international space station. The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) says the 60-ton space station will include three capsules and a cargo spaceship, and should be completed around 2020, according to China's state-run news agency Xinhua. “The 60-ton space station is rather small compared to the International Space… Read More

In the world of tech gadgets, we constantly look down: at laptops, smartphones – even at the just-announced iPad. Yet, for some of the most amazing technology, you have to crane your neck up toward the sky. Over the next few years, NASA and a few private spaceflight firms are planning some spectacular outer space voyages.

In what's believed to be the most significant incident of its kind, a derelict Russian Kosmos 2251 military satellite has collided with a U.S. communications satellite that's part of the Iridium satellite communication network. The collision occurred approximately 500 miles over Siberia, and has produced a cloud of debris containing at least 600 objects that are currently being tracked by NASA and other agencies. Although the… Read More

A computer virus has made it into space. The space news site SpaceRef reports that Nasa has confirmed that laptops taken onto the International Space Station (ISS) last month were infected with the Gammima.AG virus but stress that nothing on board is in danger. They’re now trying to figure just how the laptops – which were used for nutritional programs and to let astronauts send e-mail to earth and which reportedly carried no… Read More

Internet giant Google and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Ames Research Center have entered into what they're callng a “Space Act Agreement,” which amounts to plans to collaborate on a series of projects which will not only put NASA information on computer user's desktops in new ways, but also help the agency deal with technical challenges in large scale data management, distributed… Read More

Yahoo announced today it will provide free Windows Media format video streams of the 12-day space shuttle Discovery mission via Yahoo Web sites and the NASA home page. The video will be NASA's official video coverage of the flight, and include lift-off, 24/7 coverage of the mission itself, and the return landing. The video will be promoted throughout Yahoo's network of services. The Discovery mission was originally scheduled to… Read More

From HP's press release: The iPAQ h5550 and accompanying accessories were launched on April 19, exactly four years after the introduction of the first iPAQ Pocket PC. The iPAQs will be used as mobile productivity tools to record daily crew procedures, write personal memos and check e-mail and calendars. The space crew will also be able to listen to music, view photos from home and read e-books, allowing them to have some of the… Read More