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Johnson Space Center closes, ask Stephen Hawking a question, clean solar power looked at on Discovery Channel and we have one of the coolest opportunities yet!! Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge by X PRIZE Foundation has asked us to webcast for the upcoming Oct. 24-25 2008 event. Awesome! See what that’s all [...]

Last week we did a story on the Hubble telescope and the upcoming and final servicing mission to fix it up. The James Webb Space Telescope was mentioned, but not many details were given. This video found on the NASA site shows what is new with JWST, why it is better than the Hubble and a bit of what we can expect. The telescope is still being built and it is possible it will be delayed a bit, but JWST is scheduled to fly no earlier than 2013, so we have a bit of time to admire the images from Hubble a bit longer.

The Ariane 5 launched two satellites in to orbit on August 14th, 2007. The first was the Superbird-7 for Japanese operator Space Communications Corporation (SCC) and AMC-21 for American operator SES Americom. This launch happened at the spaceport is Kourou, French Guiana with a liftoff at 8:44pm UTC.

On August 11th, 2008 the Hubble Telescope hit the 100,000 orbit mark! Since its launch in April of 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope has been traveling at 5 miles per second with its on-board odometer racking up around 2.72 BILLION miles! That’s about 5,700 trips to the moon and back! In October of this year the STS-125 crew will be be working on the 5th and final servicing mission to Hubble. There are currently 5 spacewalks scheduled for Atlantis where astronauts will install new equipment and repair broken instruments. Once this mission is complete, NASA’s favorite telescope will need to live out the remainder of its days alone in space, with no chance of repair. This is the story of the Hubble Space Telescope, or HST.

Earlier this week NASA’s Cassini spacecraft started sending some of the most detailed and fascinating pictures home of Saturn’s sixth largest moon. Cassini recently began a two year extension of it’s original tour of our solar system’s ringed planet by taking a closer look at Enseladus. We know that Enseladus is almost entirely water ice, but many are hoping to find something more along the lines of the building blocks of life. Watch on to learn more about Cassini and see some great pics of Enseladus!

Did you know that Sweeden has a space agency and they have developed no fewer than 6 satellites? At a fraction of NASAs budget and man power, this little space agency packs a huge punch! Watch on in this second installment of Better Know a Space Agency!

We’re starting a new segment on SpaceVidcast that will be highlighting a different space agency each week. Since NASA is by far the largest agency of them all, we’ll start here and show you where NASA came from, how much it spends, and how it looks on the surface in this brief 3 minute overview. NASA is so complex that we could spend hours talking about all the different areas, and we encourage you to continue the conversation in the comments section. Add your cool NASA stats or feelings there!

In this action packed, adventuresode of SpaceVidcast we cover the incredibly dangerous EVA that the Russians just completed. Exploding bolts, knives in space and ripping through thermal foam are just a few things they had to do on this unscheduled EVA. The largest solar panel installation in the US is going in Florida, and guess what space agency will be using it. We have found a star that likes to put out. Finally we chat about you, space and if you would go to space with a 1/70 chance of total crew and vehicle loss.