LauncherOne is a two stage orbital launch vehicle by Virgin Orbit that started development in 2007. The LauncherOne vehicle is an air launch to orbit rocket, designed to launch “smallsat” payloads into Sun-synchronous orbit. The concept of the LauncherOne vehicle has evolved from the original…
Everyone has a tradition for anything and everything they do. People are superstitious and this continues for astronauts. Every country and company that has launched a rocket has their own space launch traditions. Russia has…
Coronavirus is NOT a joke this article is meant to be a guide for those who wish to go out and stargaze when phase 2 and 3 is reached for their favorite astronomy spots. Until…
Founded in 2017, Virgin Orbit is an aerospace company that is a part of the Virgin Group that has plans to provide satellite launch services for small satellites that launch from their custom made Boeing…
When reviewing Moon: An Illustrated History by Dr. David Warmflash, what caught our attention was the mention of Lunar Calendars. The technical definition of a lunar calendar is calendar based on the monthly cycles of the Moon’s phases, which are synodic…
In this article, we will provide a brief overview to the NASA Space Grant Consortium. The NASA Space-Grant Colleges are educational institutions in the United States that comprise a network of fifty-two consortia formed for the purpose of outer-space–related research Each consortium is…
May 27th, 2020 is a big day for the Space community! It is the first NewSpace And SpaceX launch of manned spaceflight! Being the first launch in nearly a decade, last Space Shuttle launch was…
You might have seen the recent articles about the sun entering into a period in its cycle called the solar minimum and the potentially “cataclysmic” events associated with this. We are here to help you…
A transit “is the passage of a relatively small body across the disk of a larger body, usually a star or a planet, occulting only a very small area.”[1] Transits are different than an eclipse which is caused…
Apparent magnitude is a measure of the brightness of a star or other astronomical object observed from the Earth. An object’s apparent magnitude depends on its intrinsic luminosity, its distance from Earth, and any extinction of the object’s light caused by interstellar dust along the…