This Week On The Space Show
The Space Show, hosted by David Livingston under www.TheSpaceShow.com, will have the following guests this week: 1. Monday, November 30, 2009, 2-3:30 PM PST (20-21:30 GMT) Note space attorney Wayne White returns to discuss space law updates, legal issues for orbital debris and suborbital tourism.  Wayne White is an attorney who works for an aerospace contractor. He [...]

SES Orders Four New Satellites From Astrium
Luxembourg and Paris, (EADS Astrium) – Global satellite operator SES S.A.(Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) and Astrium, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EADS (Euronext Paris: EAD), announced today that SES has ordered four multi-mission satellites from Astrium to provide replacement as well as incremental capacity for its SES ASTRA and SES WORLD SKIES divisions. Multi-satellite [...]

British Virgin Islands Seen from Space
The Lesser Antilles island chain separates the Atlantic Ocean from the Caribbean Sea. Part of that island chain consists of the Virgin Islands, some governed by the United States, and some by the United Kingdom. Of the British Virgin Islands, the largest is Tortola, roughly 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide and 19 kilometers (14 miles) long. [...]

Black Hole Caught Zapping Galaxy into Existence!
Which come first, the supermassive black holes that frantically devour matter or the enormous galaxies where they reside? A brand new scenario has emerged from a recent set of outstanding observations of a black hole without a home: black holes may be “building” their own host galaxy. This could be the long-sought missing link to [...]

Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Titan Explained
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn’s orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet’s largest moon, Titan. A paper describing the theory appears in the November 29th advance online edition of [...]