CubeSat

Brief explanation to the CubeSat project.

http://www.diyspaceexploration.com/what-are-cubesats/

The NASA Pathfinder

The NASA Pathfinder is a solar powered aircraft. It is one of the first unmanned aircrafts, and is made to perform atmospheric research. It was developed by the ERAST program in the early 1980's, but has been modified to what is now known as the NASA Pathfinder Plus.

 Pics cr: NASA

For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Pathfinder

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-034-DFRC.html#.U2b3e_ldV1Y

Galaxy s5 update

A lot of updates about the Galaxy S5!
First off, the concept video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXUJFYkRIuI

The battery life says to have 390 standby hours, which I hope is true because the Galaxy s3's battery life doesn't last long and overall the phone seems to have some problems.

A lot of the details were released in Barcelona on February 24th

It will be released on April 11th 2014.

An interesting pinpoint is that not only will navy, black, and white models come out, but a brown model will too.

Samsung NX300 camera

This camera is #1 on my wishlist for things I want to buy when I get a summer job (actually its the only thing haha). 

The Samsung NX300 camera has a high quality 18500 mm lens, has wifi, and has a great ISO performance (or so the reviews say). The screen also flips over so you can take pictures of you with your friends or whatever without asking people. 

The price on ebay is about $470, which I think is a pretty reasonable price- especially if your looking for a camera to use for a few years.

Airbus 350 XWB Interior

I have pretty weird hobbies, and one of them is looking at the interior of airplanes. I always look up the interior of the plane I will ride when I go on trips. Anyways, I was looking up plane interiors and I stumbled across the Airbus 350 XWB interior. If I ever get to choose on what type of place I would like to ride, I'm going to choose the Airbus 350 XWB.

Here are the list of orders:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A350_XWB_orders

Most are due around 2017.

CubeSat

To those who need some info about the CubeSat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat

Already many high schools are developing CubeSats to lanuch into space. NASA is currently helping a few of those high schools. It would be awesome if Aviation High School would be able to build one.
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/november/nasa-helps-launch-student-built-satellites-as-part-of-cubesat-launch-initiative/#.UuXasBDTlD8

When We Left Earth- NASA Documentary

A few days ago I started watching a documentary called When We Left Earth. Its about the history of NASA accomplishing space missions. I'm on episode 5 (there are 6 episodes), and in my opinion it is one of the most interesting documentaries if you are interested in outer space and spacecrafts. Most documentaries are pretty interesting to me, but this one really makes the viewers get emotional. Not emotional as in it makes people teary, but when someone does something that messes up the whole mission you get worked up, and when a person makes a record or a mission is accomplished you feel really proud. It feels more like a very long movie chunked in parts. I don't know if it is still on Discovery Channel, but I watched it through Amazon.
A summary of the episodes so far:

• Project Mercury
• Alan Shephard
• Liberty Bell 7
• Project Gemini
• Missions tested towards goal of traveling to moon
• Apollo
• Challenger tragedy
• First man of moon

There is much more of a story than what I wrote. Just trying to spoil a lot.

Samsung Galaxy S5 & Iphone 6

When both is released, I will post info as soon as I can.

Virgin Galactic Spaceship 2

The Virgin Spaceship 2 (SS2) is a scaleplane (an airplane on Earth and spacecraft in space) that will be used for space travel and tourism. It holds a total of 8 people, and is about twice the size of the spaceship1. It had its first test flight in 2007, but had an explosion. On September 5th, 2013 it had another test flight quite successfully.

http://www.space.com/22660-virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-rocket-test.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipTwo

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!