Tagged: satellite

A NASA mission’s GPS prowess is now part of the record books: The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission just broke a Guinness World Record for highest altitude fix of a GPS signal. The four MMS satellites set the new space record by using GPS navigation at...

The orbits of Pluto’s four smallest moons are even more chaotic than scientists had expected, according to new results from the New Horizons mission, which made a close flyby of Pluto in July. “The way I would describe this system is not just chaos, but...

On April 30, after more than 20 years in space, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite re-entered and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. Decommissioned in 2012, the instrument spent its lifetime probing the environments of black holes and neutron stars in X-ray wavelengths, revealing...

The spacecraft that have peered through the yellowish haze surrounding Saturn’s moon Titan discovered a strange, yet strangely familiar world where life could theoretically take root. Now, scientists want to return — this time buoyed by Earth’s fascination with drone technology. That’s precisely what a...

Illustration of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — TESS — observing an M dwarf star with orbiting planets. NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER Human-centric language is hard to avoid when we talk about the cosmos. Astronomers have identified thousands of suns across the universe, yet...

The Solar Orbiter craft will “escape” the ecliptic plane and make 22 close approaches to the sun, photographing its north and south poles for the first time ever. ESA/ATG MEDIALAB A newly launched spacecraft promises to broaden our understanding of the sun. Called the “Solar...

– Star can be reduced to white dwarf status by its companion, according to a series of observations conducted by Brazilian astronomers between 2005 and 2013. Reserchers studied a pair of celestial objects rarely seen in the Milky Way: a very low-mass white dwarf and...

  The Black Knight is without a doubt one of the most talked about extraterrestrial objects orbiting our planet at the moment. When first sighted in orbit, it was thought to be a Russian Spy satellite, but this was very quickly dismissed.But the question is...

Google Maps/ Google Earth has become one of the most popular tools on the internet for researchers, paranormal hunters and those who are naturally curious about what’s out there. According to reports, combining satellite, aerial and street level imagery, Google Maps has over 20 petabytes...

  Have you ever wondered what the Black Knight Satellite actually is? Most of us have heard stories about the Black Knight Satellite; ufologists believe it to be an extraterrestrial satellite that has been orbiting Earth for over fifty years. Tesla is said to have...