It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan's space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves. Full Article at The Seferm Post

Good news! NASA, after playing with the space shuttle for the last thirty years, has come out with a new experimental rocket, the Ares 1-X. My first thought is that it’s about time. They’ve been driving the space shuttle for a long, long time. Full Article at The Americus Times-Recorder

International scientists, researchers and decision makers met at the 'Space and the Arctic workshop' to identify the needs and challenges of working and living in the rapidly changing Arctic and to explore how space-based services can help to meet... Full Article at EurekAlert