| Date | Item |
|---|---|
| 2008-5-14 | The Transition by Terrafugia is a new flying car design but many are not convinced so the CEO responds to doubters in a separate article. |
| 2008-5-14 | The NASA Phoenix Mission to Mars is ready for landing on May 25. |
| 2008-5-7 | The Earth may have had multiple moons at one point after the collision that created the Moon. |
| 2008-4-25 | Universe Today has more details on the near tragic reentry of the Soyus last week. |
| 2008-4-21 | The Earth's magnetosphere provides needed protection from the Sun's radiation, but its tail may cause additional problems for astronauts on the Moon. |
| 2008-4-15 | If jet planes are not fast enough for you, check out the Rocket Racing league, that plans races in rocket powered aircraft. |
| 2008-3-6 | Have the right stuff? How about for a one-way trip to Mars? It makes the trip much more feasible. |
| 2008-3-4 | Space.com has a story on how NASA will use existing Mars probes to watch Phoenix landing on Mars. |
| 2008-2-20 | The Pentagon has said it will shoot down an aging spy satellite. Click here to watch a KARE11 spot featuring AEM Prof. Bill Garrard. USA Today also wrote an article on the subject (with a quote from Prof. Graham Candler). Another article quoting Professor Garrard is available here. |
| 2008-2-18 | As described by NASA, a total lunar eclipse will be visible from North America on Wednesday and the forecast is for clear skies in Minnesota. A couple of local animations of this event are available. |
| 2008-2-6 | The Reaction Engines company makers of the Scimitar engine for single stage to orbit applications has announced the A2 Vehicle, which is planned to carry 300 passengers at Mach 5. |
| 2008-1-24 | NOAA is planning to use UAV's for weather reconnaissance. There will be three test projects this summer to measure the effectiveness of UAV's in this role. |
| 2008-1-9 | The next Hubble upgrade will make it able to observe 900 galaxies instead of the current 10 at a time. The shuttle mission to repair the telescope is scheduled for August 2008 but current problems with the fuel tank sensors may cause this to be delayed. |
| 2008-1-9 | On January 14 the Messenger spacecraft will fly by Mercury in NASA's first contact with the planet since the Mariner 10 mission 30 years ago. This fly by is an initial step in Messenger entering an orbit around Mercury. |
| 2007-12-20 | NASA has selected the contractor for Ares I Rocket avionics, and will be electing an open source route for the design. Ares development is headed up by AEM alumnus Steve Cook. |
| 2007-11-29 | The Venus Express spacecraft has returned some interesting images and discoveries about Venus including evidence of lightning. |
| 2007-11-29 | The BBC has an article on NASA's vision of a manned mission to Mars. This would involve assembly of the vehicle in orbit using multiple launches of the Ares heavy lift vehicle. |
| 2007-11-21 | The search for Betty continues. Children in Dayton, Virginia found a balloon supposedly launched from Missouri, though the launching lady, Betty, can't seem to be found. The U of MN was considered as a possible launch point due to Nov. 3's HALO launch. |
| 2007-10-11 | Japan's lunar probe has taken its first pictures of the moon, this is part of a new space race to the moon, which may involve China beating the United States back to the moon. |
| 2007-10-10 | The New Horizons probe has taken some interesting pictures of Jupiter on its way to Pluto. |
| 2007-10-1 | October 4 will mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of Prosteishiy Sputnik -- the Simplest Satellite. This article gives some interesting information about the launch that is only now coming to light. |
| 2007-9-26 | A Russian space tether experiment has failed. This was an attempt to return a package to earth from orbit using a form of tether propulsion. |
| 2007-9-19 | NASA has posted a hiring notice for 10-15 new astronauts. Do you have the right stuff? Now you can find out. |
| 2007-9-18 | The GPS control computers have been replaced. Modern Unix based machines replaced the 1970's era mainframe that was running the system. If this seems slow, think about how much testing must be involved to certify such a critical system. |
| 2007-9-17 | German researchers have demonstrated a personal 135 mph aircraft that involves a strap on pair of wings. It's designed for special forces and uses a parachute based landing system. |
| 2007-9-12 | The Opportunity Mars rover has entered Victoria crater for the first time. A previous news release discussed the reasons for the interest in this crater. |
| 2007-9-10 | A solar powered uncrewed aircraft has flown for 54 hours and is the first such aircraft to make it through two nights. It beat out the Global Hawk that has only flown through one night. This is an advance toward perpetual flight. |
| 2007-9-7 | Purdue and Lockheed Martin engineers have developed a method to lengthen the life of communications satellites. The technique involves making sure that fuel in the control thruster tanks is all used up at the same time. You can learn about satellite control in our new course AEM 4302 -- Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control. |
| 2007-9-5 | Space.com has a first look at the New Mexico spaceport called Spaceport America that will be home to Virgin Galactic. |
| 2007-9-4 | The Mars rovers are on the move again after surviving the last six weeks of dust storms by hibernating. |
| 2007-8-31 | BBC has a story about a personal VSTOL vehicle built by Moller International (main page has cool picture), who hopes to start selling the personal "flying saucers" soon. |
| 2007-8-22 | A crash has destroyed one of the rockets built by Armadillo Aerospace to compete in NASA's lunar lander competition. |
| 2007-8-22 | A simulation of a Mars mission lasting 101 days has just ended. This was a human factors experiment in the Canadian arctic. |
| 2007-8-15 | Very good images of Endeavour's damaged tiles are now available, there is also a movie of the damage on the NASA site. It has been determined that this damage does not need fixing in orbit. |
| 2007-7-20 | Universe Today has an article about the difficulty of landing large payloads on Mars with its much less than Earth atmosphere and larger gravity than the Moon. |
| 2007-7-16 | MIT scientists have designed a space suit that uses mechanical pressure instead of air pressure to maintain the wearer's internal pressure. |
| 2007-7-13 | The world's largest telescope is operational in the Canary Islands with a 34.1 foot mirror. |
| 2007-7-9 | Space.com is reporting that a major dust storm on Mars my drain the batteries on the rovers and put them permanently out of action. |
| 2007-6-26 | Is a space elevator possible? The company LiftPort Group thinks so, but many people are not so sure, here is their response to recent criticisms. |
| 2007-6-12 | The New York Times is reporting that famed aerospace engineer and AEM alumnus Homer J. Stewart has died. |
| 2007-6-11 | The New Horizons space probe has captured a giant plume from Io's Tvashtar volcano that extends 200 miles above the surface. |
| 2007-6-1 | The next Shuttle mission, STS-117, launch window will begin June 8. This is another mission to add solar arrays to the ISS. |
| 2007-5-29 | The solar system is special, just like all the other planetary systems, says a UC Berkeley group announcing 28 more extrasolar planets have been found. There are now more than 230 exoplanets known to exist. |
| 2007-5-11 | The BBC has an article on the Webb space telescope, which will replace the Hubble telescope in 2013. The Hubble will be serviced so it remains operational until then. |
| 2007-4-26 | The odd hexagonal shape on Saturn that was previously mentioned here may be due to geometrical whirlpools, which can be observed in spinning buckets of water. |
| 2007-4-10 | Sunspot activity is at a 1000 year peak according to scientists based at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich. Sunspots have a large influence on space weather and are linked to global temperature changes. |
| 2007-4-10 | A combined hovercraft and helicopter has been developed that employs the Coanda effect. |
| 2007-3-30 | US astronaut Sunita Williams is going to run the Boston Marathon in space using a treadmill on the ISS. |
| 2007-3-28 | A piece of Russian satellite reentering the atmosphere narrowly missed a jetliner. |
| 2007-3-27 | The Cassini spacecraft has imaged a odd hexagonal shape on Saturn. It's a rotating vortex but it is not known why it is hexagonal. |
| 2007-3-17 | Department Head Gary Balas is among three IT professors (and twelve professors University-wide) selected as Distinguished McKnight Professors. |
| 2007-3-12 | NASA is developing new sensors for detecting life on Mars. |
| 2007-3-12 | The Orbital Express satellite was launched last week. It is designed to test robotic repair of satellites in orbit. |
| 2007-2-27 | CNN is reporting that a hailstorm may have damaged Atlantis's fuel tank as it sat on the pad and NASA is currently evaluating if it will need to be repaired. |
| 2007-2-25 | CNN TV is reporting that the navigational software glitch that forced the F-22 Raptors to return to Hawaii was a complete crash of their navigational systems when they crossed the international date line. On the ground we may have similar problems on March 11 due to the time zone changes in the US. |
| 2007-2-24 | A new rocket engine with five "gears" has been designed by reseachers at Georgia Tech. It has the potential to save 40% on fuel. |
| 2007-2-14 | MIT has an offer to put your Valentine's name in space for a donation to their Mars Gravity BioSatellite program. |
| 2007-2-9 | What is the "Right Stuff" for astronauts on a long mission? Turns out that "high toleration for lack of achievement," might be one of the needed qualities for astronauts on 30 month Mars missions. |
| 2007-2-7 | Gulfstream Aerospace used one of their planes to make a flight track in the shape of GV over the Midwest for the Gulfstream V aircraft used. |
| 2007-2-6 | The NY Times has an article on the problem of space junk. The recent destruction of an old satellite by China appears to have added 1000 pieces 4 inches or larger to the current list of 10,000 such objects in LEO. |
| 2007-2-6 | CNN is reporting that U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams has now spent more time on spacewalks than any other woman. |
| 2007-1-30 | The ISS astronauts are keeping personal diaries for scientific research. They write down all the details of their stay on the ISS and an anthropologist is analyzing them in an effort to make future expeditions more successful. |
| 2007-1-30 | Space.com is reporting that The Hubble Telescope's main camera shut down over the weekend. |
| 2007-1-11 | The preliminary finding is that the MGS spacecraft was lost due to a programming error. A panel will be formed to determine what went wrong. |
| 2007-1-9 | Is ET watching TV too? A new SETI program is designed to search for leakage of signals similar to our TV from extraterrestrial civilizations. |
| 2007-1-9 | NASA is going to go metric on its return to the Moon. |
| 2007-1-4 | Blue Origin has made a successful test flight with a vertical take off and landing and images and video are available. They also announce that they are hiring. |
| 2006-12-29 | Bad Astronomy has their picks for the Top Ten Astronomy Images of 2006. |
| 2006-12-14 | A large Solar Storm has caused the Shuttle and ISS astronauts to take cover. |
| 2006-12-13 | The Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal reported on UAV- and JPALS-related research being conducted within the department. |
| 2006-12-5 | NASA has disclosed its strategy for returning to the Moon starting in 2020 and heading toward a permanent presence. |
| 2006-11-30 | CNN is reporting that the shuttle Discovery will be launched at night for the next construction mission to the ISS. |
| 2006-11-22 | The Mars Global Surveyor space is probably lost forever according to a report in the NewScientist. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter failed to spot the MGS. |
| 2006-11-16 | The Minnesota Daily profiled new GPS research being conducted by AEM's own Demoz Gebre-Egziabher, a University McKnight Land-Grant Professor. |
| 2006-11-16 | Space.com has an article on the options NASA is considering for the next round of Moon exploration. |
| 2006-11-10 | The Cassini spacecraft has found a giant storm on Saturn. This hurricane is 2/3 the diameter of Earth, where we just ended the Atlantic hurricane season with no storms hitting the continental US. |
| 2006-11-9 | NASA has lost contact with the spacecraft Mars Global Surveyor, just after its 10 year anniversary. |
| 2006-11-6 | To combat global warming it is time to sit in the shade, according to this article about a plan to put trillions of tiny shades into the L-1 point to block about 2% of the sunlight reaching earth. |
| 2006-11-6 | CNN has an article about the Silent Aircraft Initiative, which is conducting preliminary research in the hope of having silent commercial aircraft by 2030. |
| 2006-10-31 | Astronomers got a treat yesterday when NASA decided to add a shuttle mission to repair the Hubble and extend its life for another 4 years or so. |
| 2006-10-26 | The NASA Stereo mission was launched last night. The pair of satellites are designed to give us 3D views of the sun and solar storms. |
| 2006-10-26 | http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01907 |
| 2006-10-3 | A Minnesota company, VeraTech, has developed an "invisible" UAV called the Phantom Sentinel. |
| 2006-10-2 | A computer analysis has shown that Armstrong did indeed say "That's one small step for *a* man, one giant leap for mankind." Now if they could just find the missing high quality video from Apollo 11. |
| 2006-9-26 | The Opportunity Mars Rover has reached Victoria crater, which is half a mile wide and about 230 ft deep. See an animation of the crater here. The rovers have now operated for over 10 times their planned lives. |
| 2006-9-26 | UP Aerospace's first launch of a rocket has failed at 40000 ft. It was planned to reach 70 miles. |
| 2006-9-22 | The Mars Express spacecraft has captured some new pictures of the "face" on Mars with the best resolution ever. |
| 2006-9-21 | The Navy is retiring the F-14 Tomcat after 36 years of service, it is being replaced by the F/A-18 Hornet. |
| 2006-9-20 | Three engineering students at Cambridge University are working toward spaceflight on the cheap. Using a balloon assist they hope to get a rocket to 100 km for under $2000. |
| 2006-9-14 | CNN has an article about the successful deployment of the new solar arrays for the ISS. |
| 2006-9-14 | The largest of the dwarf planets, which include Pluto, has been named Eris with moon Dysnomia. The official IAU announcement is here (pdf). |
| 2006-9-12 | STS-115: Atlantis is in orbit and the astronauts including St. Paul native Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper are hard at work expanding the ISS. |
| 2006-8-31 | The ESA Smart-I spacecraft will crash into the Moon on Sept. 2 ending a successful mission. The impact may be visible using an amateur telescope. |
| 2006-8-24 | Pluto is no longer a planet and it's not even the largest of the "dwarf planets," see the CNN article. A scale image(1.3MB JPG) of the solar system from the IAU shows why this makes sense. |
| 2006-8-22 | NASA has announced it named the new crew exploration vehicle Orion after it was inadvertently leaked by one of the ISS astronauts. |
| 2006-7-27 | The first rocket launch of the CubeSat project failed. It was carrying 14 student built satellites. |
| 2006-7-27 | CNN has an article about the new Very Light Jets getting provisional certification by the FAA. |
| 2006-7-17 | A inflatable space station has been launched by Bigelow Aerospace, check out the pictures. |
| 2006-6-30 | A new cable will allow NASA to land the shuttle by remote control with no one on board if it is decided it is too risky for the astronauts, who would remain on the ISS. |
| 2006-6-26 | NASA is sponsoring a competition to develop space vehicles that NASA itself won't. |
| 2006-6-21 | NASA safety chief says shuttle launch is "a done deal" even though the foam problems have not been solved. |
| 2006-6-19 | The Toronto Star has an article about the need to be able to mine the Moon if we are to establish a long term presence there. |
| 2006-6-12 | CNN has an article about a second on-orbit inspection that the shuttle will undergo during its next mission, which is scheduled for a July 1-19 window. |
| 2006-5-30 | A NASA project has found a way to extract oxygen from lunar soil using focused sunlight to break down the silicon-dioxide that is a main component of the lunar soil. |
| 2006-5-8 | NASA and the X Prize Foundation have announced a new competition for a lunar lander type mission. |
| 2006-4-28 | The Hubble space telescope was launched just over 16 years ago. Some images have been released to commemorate this achievement. |
| 2006-4-12 | CNN has a story on the 25th anniversary of the first shuttle flight. Only the shuttle solid rockets are being used in the design of the new Crew Exploration Vehicle, which looks like a return to Apollo program. |
| 2006-4-12 | The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the possible tenth planet and found it is almost the same size as Pluto. Thus the debate about what defines a planet continues. |
| 2006-4-11 | The Venus Express probe has successfully entered orbit, as reported by the BBC. This is the first mission to Venus in a decade. |
| 2006-4-11 | The Spirit rover on Mars has reached safety, this means it will get enough sunlight to survive the winter. A sandy area had to be avoided to get parked correctly. |
| 2006-4-10 | NASA has launched NASA Kids Club a new interactive Flash based site for kids K-4 with games and activities. |
| 2006-4-3 | Neutrinos appear to have mass. That is the preliminary finding from the MINOS experiment in the Soudan Mine in Minnesota, as reported by the BBC and on UMN News. Neutrinos may be part of the missing mass of the Universe. |
| 2006-3-29 | NOVA has the Great Robot Race series viewable on-line. This is the story of the DARPA sponsored autonomous vehicle race. Many NOVA programs are available for on-line viewing. |
| 2006-3-24 | A test of the hypersonic scramjet called Hyshot III is planned for Saturday in Australia. Scramjet engine development is one goal of the National Hypersonics Research Center in our Department which is run by Prof. Candler. |
| 2006-3-23 | SpaceX has successfully done a static testing firing of their rocket. They now plan their first flight for Friday. |
| 2006-3-20 | One of the wheels on the Mars rover Spirit stopped working over the weekend. With 5 working wheels NASA hopes to still be able to keep it moving. |
| 2006-3-9 | The Cassini space craft appears to have found water on Saturn's moon Enceladus, even more interesting they are claiming to have found liquid water. |
| 2006-2-28 | A Russian cosmonaut on the ISS is going to make the longest golf drive ever at about 2.1 billion miles this July. This appears to beat Alan Shepard's drive on the moon (large avi movie) during the Apollo 14 mission. |
| 2006-2-27 | Google is digitizing the National Archives videos which include the video Eagle Has Landed about the Apollo 11 mission. |
| 2006-2-23 | Popular Science has an article about a cruise ship sized aircraft concept that combines blimp and lifting body technologies. |
| 2006-2-22 | NASA plans to retire the space shuttle Atlantis in 2008 instead of performing an overhaul of the 1985 orbiter. |
| 2006-2-8 | As CNN is reporting, Steve Fossett is currently attempting to set a distance record is his Global Flyer aircraft. See here for real time tracking of his scheduled 80 hour flight. |
| 2006-2-7 | The Wall Street Journal is reporting on Lockheed Martin Drones that they have under development. Our design class has worked on unmanned aerial vehicle designs with Lockheed Martin in the past. |
| 2006-2-2 | CNN has a couple of interesting astronomy stories: what seemed like asteroids near Jupiter are really comets and the possible tenth planet may be larger than Pluto. |
| 2006-1-27 | As CNN is reporting, Saturday is the 20th Anniversary of the Challenger disaster and NASA is also remembering those lost in the Apollo 1 and Columbia tragedies. MSN has an article discussing 7 myths about the Challenger failure. |
| 2006-1-27 | NASA will be tossing an empty space suit out of the ISS on February 3. The SuitSat will be transmitting its status and the article has a link to a program for you to figure out when it passes overhead at your location. |
| 2006-1-20 | The New Horizons probe blasted off yesterday on its voyage to Pluto. After a gravity assist by Jupiter in 2007 it will arrive at Pluto in 2015. |
| 2006-1-15 | CNN is reporting that the Stardust probe has returned successfully and the Pluto Probe is being readied for launch. |
| 2006-1-13 | CNN is reporting on the return of the Stardust probe. After 7 years the probe should return on Sunday with what is hoped to be original matter from the creation of the solar system. |
| 2006-1-10 | The University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project is now being managed by the AEM Department with Jeff Hammer taking over as project adviser. |
| 2006-1-7 | Science Blog has a story about a quiet Mach 6 wind tunnel at Purdue. They have hired a UG to climb inside the 18" diameter tunnel and clean the inside to ensure quiet laminar flow. |
| 2006-1-4 | The Repository in Canton Ohio is running a story about a start-up company Dynalifter that is working on a new blimp design, they hope will have numerous applications. |
| 2006-1-3 | A NASA team, on their first try, has observed a meteor strike on the moon. This research is of renewed interest with the current plans to return to the moon by 2020. |
| 2005-12-19 | Ham radio operators have successfully listened to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using a homemade dish and electronics. Receiving a signal from 45 million miles away is not something you regularly do. |
| 2005-12-16 | CNN has a story that NASA plans to remove foam from the external tank to prevent it falling off. This may further delay the next launch of the shuttle. |
| 2005-12-5 | Dick Rutan has set another record, this time for landing a rocket powered ship. |
| 2005-11-28 | CNN is reporting that a Japanese probe has successfully landed on an asteroid. A sample of the asteroid is planned to be returned to Earth in 2007 by the probe which uses ion engines. |
| 2005-11-8 | The Discovery Channel is reporting that NASA plans to cut all research on the ISS until the space station is completed. |
| 2005-11-3 | NASA has released a desktop application that allows you to view the Moon in 3D with 20 meter resolution. Check it out here. |
| 2005-11-1 | CNN is reporting that two more moons of Pluto may have been discovered. This does not settle the planetary status of Pluto as other minor objects also have been found to have moons. |
| 2005-10-28 | CNN has a story about the close approach of Mars to Earth this Saturday. This will be the closest Mars will be to Earth until 2018. |
| 2005-10-19 | ITAR-TASS is reporting that a burn of the Progress spacecraft's engines to raise the orbit of the International Space Station was cut short after an unexpected shutdown. The ISS orbit needs to be raised regularly due to drag. |
| 2005-10-12 | NASA has funded a second round of study for a novel method for imaging planets around stars, which involves a giant star shield in space and a trailing craft to collect the light from the planets. |
| 2005-10-12 | The Chinese have launched their seconded manned spacecraft, as reported by CNN. This launch carried two astronauts for what may be five days in orbit. |
| 2005-10-11 | If you only have a small aviation budget you might be interested in a fly powered aircraft. They claim it's a perfect gift, that is, if you don't mind implying the person attracts flies. |
| 2005-10-10 | Japan has successfully tested a model of their planned supersonic jet. It is envisioned to have three times the seating capacity of the Concorde and fly at Mach 2. |
| 2005-10-2 | An article on Space.com reports that the recently found object beyond Pluto, a possible 10th planet, has a moon. This raises the question: Can something that is not a planet have moon? |
| 2005-9-28 | NASA's administrator says in a USA Today interview that the shuttle and international space station were mistakes. |
| 2005-9-27 | An asteroid has been selected for the asteroid-deflecting mission Don Quijote. A near earth object did in the dinosaurs, this is the first step in trying to avoid this end for humans. |
| 2005-9-26 | If you don't have the right stuff to sit on top of a bomb to get into space, then you might be interested in this work on a space elevator. |
| 2005-9-21 | Mars Global Surveyor has found evidence of changes on the Martian surface. Its original mission end was to be in 2001, but MGS may last for another 10 years. |
| 2005-9-16 | The Cassini probe has spotted spokes in Saturn's rings. Spokes were first spotted by Voyager and they are a feature of the complicated dynamics that govern the rings. |
| 2005-9-8 | Here is a discussion of some of the first results from NASA's Deep Impact mission. |
| 2005-8-29 | Mars rover Spirit has reached a hilltop as it and Opportunity continue to roll across the Martian surface. They have found dust devils to be very common as this cool movie shows. |
| 2005-8-3 | Here's a story on NASA's plans for replacing the shuttle which includes a comparison of various options. |
| 2005-8-3 | Cosmic radiation may be the limiting factor in human space travel to Mars unlike low earth orbit which is still protected by the Van Allen radiation belts. |
| 2005-7-29 | The BBC has coverage of the discovery of what may be a tenth planet, or the ninth depending on what you think about Pluto's status as a planet. |
| 2005-7-29 | Mars Express has found ice in a crater near Mars' north pole. |
| 2005-7-27 | The U's Solar Vehicle finished second in the North American Solar Challenge behind the well funded Michigan team. |
| 2005-7-27 | The shuttle fleet is again grounded due to foam insulation coming off the external fuel tank during the launch of Discovery yesterday. |
| 2005-7-21 | The U's Solar Vehicle is currently leading the North American Solar Challenge after they crossed into Minnesota last night. |
| 2005-7-21 | The space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch Tuesday even though they have not found the source of the sensor problem. |
| 2005-7-20 | You can now use Google Moon to find your way around on the moon. It also includes the Apollo landing sites. Here's a link to a more earth bound location. |
| 2005-7-18 | Dust devils on Mars may be more of a problem than previously thought and might include electrostatic discharges (lightning). |
| 2005-7-12 | The U's Solar Vehicle will begin racing in the North American Solar Challenge on Sunday. The course is 2500 miles from Austin, Texas to Calgary, Alberta. Minnesota's entry was 2nd in 2003. |
| 2005-7-12 | The shuttle's return to flight is now scheduled for 2:51 PM CDT tomorrow. |
| 2005-7-5 | Check out the movies of Deep Impact striking the comet Temple 1 from the fly-by view or the impactors point of view. |
| 2005-7-3 | NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has successfully released its impactor, which should impact comet Temple 1 on July 4 at 12:52 a.m. CDT. UPDATE: The intercept was successful. |
| 2005-6-30 | Aerovironment has successfully flown their liquid hydrogen powered UAV, which they hope will be able to stay aloft for a week at 65000 feet. |
| 2005-6-28 | Carter Aviation Technologies helicopter the CarterCopter has achieved µ=1, which means that the forward speed of the helicopter was equal to the tip speed of the rotors. The usual requirement that the forward speed be less than the tip speed is a major limitation of high speed helicopters. |
| 2005-6-22 | The Planetary Society is set to launch their Solar Sail today from a Russian submarine. UPDATE: The booster rocket failed on launch and the craft has not been found. |
| 2005-6-4 | Opportunity, the Mars rover that was stuck, has broken free. Also check out the Rover Status Page which features our graduate Emily Eelkema, who is one of the Rover Mission Managers. |
| 2005-5-30 | Space Ship One's White Knight is being used to carry the X-37 aloft. The X-37 is an unmanned re-entry test vehicle. |
| 2005-5-25 | Voyager 1 has left the solar system by crossing into the termination shock of the solar wind. |
| 2005-5-12 | The Cassini spacecraft has found a new moon in between the rings of Saturn that trails a wake in the neighboring rings. |
| 2005-5-11 | Transformational Space Corp. (t/Space) has a plan to develop a vehicle to get astronauts to low earth orbit for NASA. Its structure would be built by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites. |
| 2005-5-6 | Mars Polar Lander that disappeared during landing 5.5 years ago may have been found using images from the Mars Global Surveyor. |
| 2005-4-27 | Whirlwinds on Mars have been captured on video, see here and here. These are apparently what has been cleaning the rovers' solar panels. |
| 2005-4-27 | The Airbus A380 flew its first test flight today, CNN has a story and there are more photos available here. |
| 2005-4-6 | The Mars rovers have just received extended funding for another 18 months. One of the reasons is the recent cleaning their solar panels received presumably from Martian dust devils. |
| 2005-3-3 | The Global Flyer landed in Salina KS today after the pilot Steve Fossett spend 67 hours in the air, becoming the first person to circle the globe non-stop in a jet powered aircraft. |
| 2005-2-9 | If you can't wait for NASA's return to the Moon check out these panoramas from the Apollo missions. (Requires Quicktime plugin) |
| 2005-2-1 | Check out the new idea to use a Solar super-sail to get a spacecraft to Mars in a month. |
| 2005-1-17 | The Boeing 747 has finally been replaced by the Airbus A380 as the largest passenger plane, but its design was unmatched for more than 30 years. |
| 2005-1-14 | The Huygens probe has successfully landed on Titan. |
| 2004-12-31 | A Martian year in review in multimedia for the two rovers that are still going after 4 times their expected lives. Check out the summary movies of their travels. |
| 2004-11-17 | NASA scram jet sets speed record of Mach 10. |
| 2004-11-9 | The Planetary Society started the countdown for launch of its Solar Sail space craft on what would have been Carl Sagan's 70th birthday. |
| 2004-10-25 | Zero Gravity Corp is now offering Weightless Flights aboard a specially modified Boeing 727-200 aircraft, for a substantial fee. |
| 2004-10-04 | SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize and breaks X-15 altitude record. |
| 2004-9-23 | AEM Celebrates its 75th Anniversary |
| 2004-8-11 | Hypersonic Research Center opens in AEM Department. |
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