Category: Space

  • Satellite Internet

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    Ray Keefe
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    Satellite Internet There are many areas of the world where Internet services are not readily accessible. One of the ideas for providing poorly services areas with Internet was Google’s Project Loon which used high altitude balloons.   But there are also Satellite Internet contenders. Theses were nicely covered by recent blogs at CIS 471 and I’ve picked…

  • Space Travel Progress

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    Space Travel The is another step forward for the Virgin Galactic start up. It has now completed several trips into space including a recent flawless return cycle. And the mechanism used to launch the space vehicle is to get the craft to a high altitude using conventional lift then use a much smaller rocket to…

  • NASA: Congratulations on Curiosity Landing

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    Curiosity Landing We were an excited bunch of Engineers as we watched the live feed from NASA of the landing of Curiosity on the surface of Mars. Given the telemetry delay of 15 minutes, the real landing had already happened. Here we were looking back in time as we were watching history being made. The…

  • Space Goes Private

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    SpaceX Dragon Docks with ISS It has been a while in the making, but the the SpaceX Dragon capsule has docked with the International Space Station and the beginning of a new era is upon us. Private enterprise is now making deliveries into space.   At 6:56AM on 25 May 2012 the International Space Station…

  • Space: The Final Frontier

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    Ray Keefe
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    OK, I couldn’t resist the title. But you will see why below.   This post was inspired by Romanian teenager Raul Oaida who engaged the help of Melbourne entrepreneur Steve Sammatino to put together a space project. Their motivation was to remind us all that we can now do many things because we want to,…