SpaceX’s Dragon cargo vessel launch was exciting and the engine flameout added a bit of drama to the historic event. Now we find out that more than an engine was lost in the mission. An Orbcomm communications satellite was riding in the “trunk” of the Falcon 9 rocket. The engine failure forced an early release…
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Gravity Probe B gyroscope, holder of world record for roundest object ever manufactured, can spin for 15,000 years
Gravity Probe B is a satellite-based, relativity gyroscope experiment that launched in 2004 for the purpose of measuring the space-time curvature near Earth in order to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The experiment was to check, very precisely, tiny changes in the spin and angle of four gyroscopes contained in a highly sophisticated housing…
Amazing pictures from teenager who sent camera into space using a balloon
The pictures below look like they were taken by a multi-billion dollar NASA satellite but these photos were actually taken by a 19-year-old teenager using a camera attached to a helium-filled balloon. Adam Cudworth, from the United Kingdom made his aerial device in just under 40 hours using a insulated box, GPS tracker…








