Category Archives: Space

SpaceX launch aborted at last second

By doris | Published: May 19, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS/AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Falcon 9 rocket by SpaceX never got off the pad. A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground Saturday after rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the historic flight. All nine engines for the SpaceX [...]

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Royal wedding breaks Internet records

By doris | Published: May 2, 2011

Full Story at DigitalLife.today.com The live streaming of Will and Kate’s nuptials had 1.6 million concurrent video views, making it the biggest event to be watched on the Web, exceeding last summer’s World Cup, according to Akamai. “I can tell you the World Cup (last June) was around 1.6 million concurrent views as well, but [...]

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Cell phone mania forces scramble for airwaves

By doris | Published: November 29, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Wireless devices such as Apple’s iPhone are transforming the way we go online, making it possible to look up driving directions, find the nearest coffee shop and update Facebook on the go. All this has a price — in airwaves. As mobile phones become more sophisticated, they transmit and [...]

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Hubble team marks 20 years with a new view

By doris | Published: April 24, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The team behind the Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating the orbiting observatory’s 20th birthday with a picture that shows a cosmic pillar of gas and dust piled high in the Carina Nebula. The image, captured in February by Hubble’s brand-new Wide Field Camera 3, may look like a bizarre landscape from [...]

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