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2 Jul 2020
- 08:38 UTC SciTech Daily First Exposed Planetary Core Discovered – An Extremely Un... The newly discovered Neptune-sized exoplanet TOI 849 b orbits its star in just 18 hours and offers a unique opportunity to peer inside a planet to investigate how planets form. ...
- 05:50 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2020-07-01 SA: RudiSO: VeronicaOthers: ------------------------------------------------------------------------Summary------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managed to get some blocks observed tonight. Many network related problems tonight that made observing a little frustrating at times. Science data taken for:2018-1-MLT-005 P1 HRS ...
- 05:01 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 07/02/2020 – Ephemeris – The star Deneb in Cygnus the swa... This is Ephemeris for Thursday, July 2nd. Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 29 minutes, setting at 9:31, and it will rise tomorrow at 6:02. The ...
- 04:23 UTC Space News Southwest Research Institute wins NOAA contract to build ... SAN FRANCISCO – The Southwest Research Institute won a $15.6 million contract to design and build the Solar Wind Plasma Sensor for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather ...
- 04:00 UTC The Guardian Hubble at 30: a view into our cosmos – podcast
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Scouting Watering Holes from Space Satellites may make it easier for nomadic herders in Senegal to survive the lean season. Read More...
- 03:47 UTC Space News L3Harris wins NOAA weather constellation study contracts SAN FRANCISCO – L3Harris Technologies won four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contracts worth a combined $2.55 million for design studies of weather satellites, instruments and mission concepts.L3Harris supplies the ...
- 03:27 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Commerce IG Slams Department Officials for Sharpiegate, C... The Department of Commerce Inspector General has issued a harshly critical assessment of how Department officials handled Sharpiegate last year where NOAA rebuked the National Weather Service office in Birmingham, ...
- 01:40 UTC Parabolic Arc Johnson: Commerce Department Obstructing Hurricane Dorian... Eddie Bernice Johnson DALLAS (Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson PR) — Today, the Department of Commerce’s Inspector General Peggy Gustafson sent a memo to Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross expressing ...
- 01:25 UTC Cosmic Log FAA and Boeing complete 737 MAX flight tests The Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing today completed three days’ worth of certification flight tests on the Boeing 737 MAX, but it’ll take weeks longer for the FAA to review ...
- 00:48 UTC Cosmic Log Physics professor tackles another quantum mystery This computer-generated visualization shows the wavelike pattern of a “quantum handshake” between a hydrogen atom emitting energy and another atom receiving the energy. (J. Cramer and C. Mead via arXiv)The ...
- 00:17 UTC Space News Blue Origin delivers the first BE-4 engine to United Laun... WASHINGTON — Blue Origin this week delivered a BE-4 rocket engine to United Launch Alliance. ULA will use two BE-4s in the main stage of its future Vulcan Centaur rocketIn ...
1 Jul 2020
- 23:18 UTC Lowell Observatory Our Pledge to Put Health and Safety First In conjunction with the Flagstaff Arts Council and a number of other organizations that form Flagstaff’s rich culture sector, we at Lowell Observatory have committed ourselves to protecting the health ...
- 23:04 UTC Space News DoD withdraws Defense Product Act small launch contract a... WASHINGTON — The Defense Department has reversed its decision to award contracts funded under the Defense Production Act to six small launch companies.DoD announced on June 16 it selected Aevum, ...
- 22:36 UTC Universe Today Complete and Total Mayhem in a Distant Galaxy Collision
- 22:24 UTC Space News HASC amendments question space acquisition reforms, chall... WASHINGTON — House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee Chairman Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) is asking for an independent review of proposed space acquisition reforms that the secretary of the Air Force ...
- 22:13 UTC Space News Yahsat hires new CFO • Vega launch delayed to August • Ti... To receive FIRST UP Satcom, a weekly SpaceNews newsletter for satellite and telecom professionals, sign up here.TOP STORIESEmirati satellite operator Yahsat has appointed a former SES executive as its new ...
- 21:52 UTC Space News GPS committee calls FCC Ligado order a “grave error” WASHINGTON — A committee charged with giving the U.S. government advice on space-based navigation services concluded that the Federal Communication Commission’s approval of Ligado’s 5G network is a “high-risk” decision ...
- 21:41 UTC Parabolic Arc CSA Awards CAD $9 Million for Technology Development The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded 14 contracts worth just over CAD $9 million (US $6.6 million) to eight companies under its Space Technology Development Program (STDP). MacDonald, Dettwiler ...
- 21:05 UTC Cosmosphere SMC and its partners successfully launch third GPS III sa... IMAGE: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a U.S. Space Force GPS 3 satellite on June 30 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. CREDIT: U.S. Space Force Our one and only launch ...
- 21:05 UTC CosmoQuest SMC and its partners successfully launch third GPS III sa... IMAGE: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a U.S. Space Force GPS 3 satellite on June 30 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. CREDIT: U.S. Space Force Our one and only launch ...
- 21:00 UTC Discover The Path to Ingenuity: One Man's Decades-Long Quest to Fl...
- 20:23 UTC The Virtual Telesco... Supernova candidate AT 2020nvb in NGC 4457: an image – 01...
- 20:12 UTC AmericaSpace Spacewalkers Wrap Up Battery Work, Prepare for Future Upg...
- 19:33 UTC Astro Bob Will You See Saturday’s Penumbral Lunar Eclipse? The penumbral shadow was very obvious over the top third of the moon before the start of the partial eclipse on Jan. 31, 2018. Bob KingDue to COVID-19 concerns many ...
- 19:28 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com NASA, Northrop Grumman plan for 12 additional SLS Solid R... NASA has initialized plans via a letter contract with Northrop Grumman for 12 additional Solid Rocket Boosters, or SRBs, for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket — a pending ...
- 18:13 UTC Space-For-All at Ho... Night sky highlights – July 2020
- 18:00 UTC New Scientist The detector with a billion sensors that may finally snar...
- 17:49 UTC The Arecibo Observa... Annoucing the Arecibo Observatory Town Hall
- 17:36 UTC NASA Commercial Cre... Cassidy and Behnken Wrap up Battery Spacewalk NASA astronaut Bob Behnken is pictured tethered to the space station’s truss structure during a spacewalk to swap batteries and route cables.NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken concluded their ...
- 17:30 UTC Centauri Dreams An Exposed Planetary Core at TOI-849 In exoplanet research, ‘deserts’ are regions where things are not found. Thus the Neptunian Desert, which is a zone close to a star where planets of Neptune size only rarely ...
- 17:19 UTC Space News ESA selects prime contractors for six new Copernicus miss... WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency on July 1 awarded 2.5 billion euros in development contracts for six new Earth-observation missions under the Copernicus remote-sensing satellite program.According to the German ...
- 17:17 UTC Philip Pugh's Astro... Writing Announcements July 1st LaunchThis is a new blog that provides news of my latest and upcoming book and other writing projects. It is aimed primarily at readers. My existing writing blog ...
- 17:15 UTC NASA Space Station ... Cassidy and Behnken Wrap Up Battery Spacewalk NASA astronaut Bob Behnken is pictured tethered to the space station’s truss structure during a spacewalk to swap batteries and route cables .NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken concluded ...
- 17:12 UTC Sky and Telescope Anticipation Grows for Comets NEOWISE and Lemmon
- 17:00 UTC SciTech Daily World’s Largest Telescope Detects Extragalactic Neutral H...
- 16:00 UTC AAS Nova A Young Population of Hidden Jets Looking for a fireworks show this 4th of July? Try checking out the distant universe, where powerful jets flung from supermassive black holes slam into their surroundings, lighting up the ...
- 16:00 UTC AAS Nova The Gaia–Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog. I. Homogeneou... Travis A. Berger et al 2020 AJ 159 280A set of homogeneously derived properties of 186,301 Kepler stars is presented, allowing unprecedented investigations into trends in stellar and exoplanet properties ...
- 15:53 UTC Astronomy Now Launch of NASA’s next Mars rover delayed to 30 July Trouble with ground equipment and then an issue with a sensor in an Atlas 5 rocket have delayed launch of NASA’s $2.4 billion Perseverance Mars rover from 17 July to ...
- 15:33 UTC NASA Watch About Those Political Ads On NASAWatch Keith's note: Ads appear on your browser based on your entire browsing history and other online habits such as Amazon, eBay, etc. Google Adsense often targets ads based on words ...
- 15:18 UTC Coalition for Deep ... Today’s Deep Space Extra In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The launch of NASA’s Perseverance Mars 2020 rover has been delayed to not earlier than July 30, prompting an extension of the launch window to ...
- 15:04 UTC Astronomy Now Most massive black hole yet discovered redefines ‘gargant... An artist’s impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by a vast disc of gas and dust. Image: NASA/JPL-CaltechAstronomers have found one of the most massive black holes yet discovered, ...
- 15:03 UTC Physics World Blog LIGO reveals quantum correlations at work in mirrors weig... Physicists working on the LIGO gravitational-wave observatory in the US have shown that quantum-scale correlations can leave their mark on macroscopic objects weighing tens of kilograms. The team explored the ...
- 15:02 UTC LIGO Laboratory New... Researchers at LIGO MIT measure the effects of quantum fl... Quantum Fluctuations Can “Kick” Objects on the Human Scale Study shows LIGO’s 40-kilogram mirrors can move in response to tiny quantum effects, revealing the “spooky popcorn of the universe.” The ...
- 14:57 UTC Sky and Telescope July 2020: Welcome Jupiter & Saturn July's 11-minute Sky Tour astronomy podcast describes what to see in the summer sky in a casual, engaging way that your whole family can enjoy.
- 14:46 UTC Parabolic Arc Orion’s ‘Twin’ Completes Structural Testing for Artemis I... The Orion STA, in its “full stack” launch configuration — the crew module, service module and launch abort system, as well as the spacecraft adapter and jettisonable fairings — was ...
- 14:45 UTC National Science Fo... Gazing at the Milky Way – iotw2027a
- 14:42 UTC NASA Tech Briefs Answering Your Questions: Will the 2020 Mars Rover Have B...
- 14:08 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA Names Joel Montalbano International Space Station Pr... Joel Montalbano (Credit: NASA) WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — Kathy Lueders, NASA’s associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, has named Joel Montalbano as manager of the International Space Station Program. ...
- 14:06 UTC SciTech Daily Specialized Telescope Proves a Binary Star Is a Very High...

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