The First Nuclear Missile Launched From Submarines – And How It Lead To Polaris

How the US Navy went from a copy of the German V-1 missile to the Polaris missile! In the 1940’s the US quickly started copying the German V-1 missile and after the war developed a submarine able to launch it, but advancing technology delivered the more capable Regulus missile. Submarines were built with special hangars […]
Deep Space Updates November 26th

The last 2 weeks saw the biggest spaceflight of the year, when Starship was lobbed above the Karman line for a few minutes, becoming the most massive object ever launched into space by humans. Arianespace ran a full duration test of the Ariane 6 core. Qualcomm and Iridium gave up on trying to add satellite […]
NASA’s Most Important Satellites: Satellites Talk To All The Other Satellites

In the 1970’s NASA began development of the Tracking & Data Relay Satellite System – a fundamental part of NASA’s space infrastructure which allows satellites near the Earth to communicate back to mission control even when there’s no ground stations visible over the horizon. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: Tweets by DJSnM I […]
Starship & Superheavy Become The Biggest Rocket In Space…. Before Exploding

SpaceX finally got to fly their second integrated flight test of the fully reusable Starship & Superheavy system, the launch was spectacular, excitement had been guaranteed and excitement was delivered. The reusable part however remains elusive for now, but I look forward to seeing the next launch be even more successful. Follow me on Twitter […]
Why Starship’s Booster Failed After Staging

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Why NASA Relies On A 1950’s Aircraft Design To Track 21st Century Spacecraft

Parked at an uncontrolled rural airfield in Northern California a 70 year old British Jet Bomber which was once used to carry experiments for NASA. The British Canberra design was licensed by the USA to make the B-57 which in turn evolved into the WB-57F – NASA’s high flying camera platform. There’s a pair of […]
The Crazy Story Of Japan’s First Asteroid Mission – Hayabusa Survived Using Expensive Rocket Fuel

While OSIRIS REx recently returned the largest sample of an asteroid to Earth, the first sample returned by a spacecraft came from Itokawa which was visited by Hayabusa in 2005 and then overcame massive technical problems to return the sample to earth. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: Tweets by DJSnM I have a […]
India Flies Space Capsule, China Rolls Astronauts – Deep Space Updates November 10th

Catching up with almost 3 weeks worth of launches from around the world, including investor reports from Astra, Rocket Lab and Virgin Galactic. And 4 Guys with bombs strapped to their backs make SpaceX fans get excited. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: Tweets by DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly […]
How Satellite TV Went From NASA Experiments Into Millions Of Homes – Comsats Episode 5

Part 5 of a history of communications satellites we look at how the tiny Geostationary satellite grew, and how the larger satellites eventually enabled users with tiny satellite dishes to get satellite TV in their homes. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: Tweets by DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn […]
Chinese Spacecraft Rolls Out Of Control During Dangerous Landing

China’s Shenzhou 16 was returning 3 astronauts to Earth after a stay on Tiangong, unfortunately during landing it had too much horizontal velocity and after touchdown it rolled violently spinning the crew inside. source