According to an article from this morning's Washington Post, the Hubble Space Telescope, producer of many of the best space images the world has seen, is now limping along without the use of its Advanced Camera for Surveys. The project page provides some details of the ACS, which is the …

Saying that the focusing problem wouldn't adversely affect the mission to visit comet Tempel 1 in July, NASA announced that Deep Impact (launched in January) has a focusing problem. This according to an article from SpaceToday.Net

According to SpaceFlight Now's article (thanks to SpaceToday.net for the pointer), NASA has set May 15 at 3:50pm as the launch date for the next shuttle (Discovery). If all goes well, the next launch after that will be July 12.

In 10 countries in the South Pacific, they certainly did. According to an article from News Interactive, ten countries in the South Pacific are without general telephone and internet service until they are able to get their dishes re-pointed and service re-established through another carrier. Left in the virtual dark …

An article from the Washington Post today tells us that Bob Edwards, nearly-25-year host of NPR's Morning Edition, will be back on the air this October. But, not with NPR. NPR itself is carrying an article about his departure and subsequent arrival at XM Radio for a new show slated …

The XPrize folks have announced that two teams (Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne and the Canadian da Vinci Project) have officially announced that they will compete this fall to launch competitors for the prize. SpaceShipOne will have its first official flight on or about September 29th, which gives it until October 13th …

NASA announced that they have redesigned the bipod fitting between the external tank and the main body of the shuttle. In response to concerns over falling debris from the previous design (which involved foam insulation around the bracket in order to keep the bracket from icing), the designers have now …

In an effort to bring local channels to another 41 local areas in the US, DirecTV has launched another satellite, this time using the Sea Launch sea-borne commercial launch facility. Sea Launch uses a sea-borne launch facility usually position near the equator in the Pacific Ocean to launch commercial payloads …

NASA has extended the mission of the Mars Rovers to an additional 5 months. The press release, dated April 8, details the successes of the current program and offers the possibility that even though the mission is being extended to September (including $15 Mil in funding for the human staff …

US space and aircraft agency, NASA has announced that an unmanned research plane successfully flew at over Mach 7 (5,300 mph- 7 times the speed of sound). The modified Pegasus rocket was launched from under the wing of a B-52B Saturday over the Pacific Ocean.

According to an article from Wired, NASA has made a final decision to stop flights to the Hubble Space Telescope, despite complaints from amateur and professional astronomers alike. The big claim is that they can't rescue the crew of the shuttle if it goes up there to service the Hubble …

An article from InfoWorld gives some preliminary information about Samsung's upcoming satellite TV-receiving telephone. The announcement from Samsung earlier this week indicates that they have created a single chip that will decode the satellite signals broadcast at 2.6GHz (as opposed to 12.2GHz to 12.7GHz used by DBS …

A quick update from the New York Times about the Mars Rovers. Spirit (the one with the memory problem) is busy erasing its flash memory in hopes that will solve its storage problem, while Opportunity continues to look at soil samples. So far, the most interesting thing found are some …

On the anniversary of the explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia upon reentry to the atmosphere, the Washington Post has an article about Jon Clark (husband of one of the fallen astronauts) and his son, Iain. The article is a sometimes-unpleasant account of some of the family events that preceded …

With the recent problems with the Mars Rover, Spirit, the fine folks at Wired did an interview with Glenn Reeves, the software architect for the Mars Rover. In it, Reeves describes the basic process of bringing the rover back on line and how they wee able to regain control. He …

According to a press release from NASA, the Mars Rover Spirit sent about 72 megabits of data yesterday in a burst of communication relayed through the orbiting Odyssey spacecraft. It was the first communication through the relay station since communication problems started on Wednesday and contained mostly diagnostic data. In …

With the news (from CNN) yesterday that the Mars Rover Spirit had not been constructively heard from in a day, and the loss of Beagle, the Mars Explorer, and lord-knows what other Mars exploration vehicles, it leaves you to wonder if there are Martians there trying to keep us away …

With astronaut safety concerns as the stated cause, NASA has decided to cancel the 2006 shuttle mission to provide the Hubble Space Telescope with its last parts exchange. This means that it will likely cease operation before its successor (the James Webb Space Telescope) is aloft. Articles from space.com …

Continuing the chronicle of Martian landers and surveyors, the European Space Agency has sent Mars Express into orbit around the red planet. The first pictures are in from the stereoscopic camera, and they are pretty amazing. The mapping camera, which can be used to determine 3D data, has a resolution …

The Washington Post had a nice article about engineers on the Spirit Mars Rover project and the anxiety of waiting to see if their inventions will work on the red planet.