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5 Dec 2020
- 22:02 UTC Insight Observatory 5th-Grade Students Image and Study Nebulae Insight Observatory had the pleasure, for the third straight school year, of collaborating with Ms. Christine DeSantis' 5th-grade class at Plymouth South Elementary School located in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Ms. DeSantis' ...
- 21:41 UTC Parabolic Arc Hayabusa2 Return Capsule Lands in Australia Hayabusa2’s return capsule streaks across the sky as it reenters the Earth’s atmosphere. (Credit: JAXA) TOKYO (JAXA PR) — The capsule onboard the asteroid explorer Hayabusa2 re-entered the atmosphere at ...
- 21:26 UTC Parabolic Arc 14 Launches Scheduled Before Christmas LauncherOne operated in powered flight for only seconds before an anomaly shut it down after being dropped from the Cosmic Girl Boeing 747. (Credit; Virgin Orbit) There are 14 launches ...
- 21:17 UTC Universe Today Astronauts Will be Able to Extract Fuel, Air, and Water F...
- 21:07 UTC Behind the Black Hayabusa-2’s samples from Ryugu land in Australia The return capsule carrying the asteroid samples grabbed by Hayabusa-2 from Ryugu successfully parachuted down in the outback of Australia today.Officials from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, confirmed ...
- 21:00 UTC collectSPACE.com: S... JAXA's Hayabusa2 probe returns asteroid Ryugu samples to ...
- 21:00 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... Return from Ryugu
- 21:00 UTC Discover Science Board Game Reviews: Wingspan, Terraforming Mars, ...
- 20:37 UTC Universe Today Japan’s Hayabusa 2 Probe Drops Off Bits of an Asteroid an...
- 20:25 UTC AmericaSpace SpaceX, NASA Count Down to Sunday Morning CRS-21 Dragon L...
- 20:22 UTC Cosmic Log Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe drops off bits of an asteroid Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe zoomed past Earth today and dropped off a capsule containing bits of an asteroid, finishing a six-year round trip.But the mission is far from over: While ...
- 19:57 UTC ABC Japanese space probe to bring asteroid dust to Earth
- 19:57 UTC ABC Capsule carrying first ever sub surface asteroid sample l...
- 19:54 UTC Space News Hayabusa2 delivers asteroid samples to Earth after six-ye... HELSINKI — Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission delivered samples taken from a primitive asteroid to Earth Saturday, which could provide potential insights into the origin of life on Earth and evolution of ...
- 19:43 UTC Spaceflight Now Japanese capsule carrying asteroid rocks lands in Austral... Artist’s concept of the Hayabusa spacecraft releasing it sample return capsule. Credit: JAXAAn armored re-entry capsule carrying pristine specimens from an asteroid streaked into Earth’s atmosphere and parachuted to a ...
- 19:31 UTC Parabolic Arc Brazilian Space Agency Issues First Operator Licenses for... by Douglas MessierManaging Editor The Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) has issued its first operator licenses for space launch activities to a domestic software developer and an American engineering services company. ...
- 19:05 UTC What's Up? The Spac... CHANG'E-5 AND JAXA SAMPLE RETURN MISSION UPDATES Hey, Space Placers!China's Chang'e-5 mission is in lunar orbit with onboard lunar samples. China's Chang'e 5 moon sample-return ascent vehicle lifts off from the lunar surface in this view captured ...
- 18:55 UTC Parabolic Arc Blue Origin’s BE-7 Engine Testing Continues in Alabama HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Blue Origin PR) — Blue Origin’s BE-7 engine program continues its testing at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. This week, the program accomplished the fourth thrust chamber test ...
- 18:31 UTC SPACE.com Japanese space capsule carrying pristine asteroid samples...
- 15:52 UTC Behind the Black LRO snaps picture of Chang’e-5 on Moon Click for full image. The science team for Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) late yesterday released an image taken of Chang’e-5 on the surface of the Moon. The image to the ...
- 15:11 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com JAXA’s Hayabusa2 sample return capsule to land in Austral... Hayabusa2’s sample return capsule is expected to land in Woomera, Australia in a 10 minute window that runs from 12:47 to 12:57 EST (17:47 to 17:57 UTC) today, 5 December ...
- 13:10 UTC SPACE.com Tissue chips and organoids: SpaceX is launching lots scie...
- 13:08 UTC SPACE.com We may be in a 'golden age' of sample-return space missio...
- 13:02 UTC Backreaction Is Infinity Real?
- 12:30 UTC EarthSky Blog Earth faster, closer to Milky Way black hole, than previo... A new survey of the Milky Way from Japan suggests our Earth and solar system are both moving faster and residing closer to our Milky Way galaxy’s central, supermassive black ...
- 12:18 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com SpaceX to begin next generation of Cargo Dragon flights w... SpaceX is preparing to launch their 21st contracted Cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station (ISS), marking the first flight of Cargo Dragon 2, the company’s new and upgraded ...
- 10:00 UTC Space News Op-ed | No, Mars is not a free planet, no matter what Spa... SpaceX makes no secret of its driving goal to make humans a multiplanetary species. Given SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s fixation on Mars and fondness for Tesla ‘Easter eggs’ and other ...
- 06:52 UTC Spaceflight Now Live coverage: Hayabusa 2 set to return asteroid samples ... Live coverage of the return of Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission to Earth carrying samples collected from asteroid Ryugu. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Video of ...
- 06:14 UTC Spaceflight Now Japanese asteroid sampling mission on course for return t... Artist’s concept of the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft releasing its sample return capsule. Credit: JAXA/Akihiro IkeshitaSix years after departing Earth, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft released a spinning capsule Saturday containing pristine ...
- 05:50 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2020-12-04 SA: LeeSO: VeronicaOthers: ------------------------------------------------------------------------Summary------------------------------------------------------------------------ We battled through bad and variable seeing until around midnight, completing some high priority blocks. A triple blow shortly after midnight was too much for us ...
- 05:01 UTC The New York Times Japan's Hayabusa2 Asteroid Journey Ends With a Hunt in Au... Members of JAXA, Japan’s space agency, installed an antenna in Woomera, southern Australia, in preparation for the Hayabusa2’s return to Earth.
- 03:22 UTC New Papyrus Growing Tensions Amongst Russia, China, and Japan over Vl...
- 01:33 UTC SciTech Daily Hubble Captures Unprecedented Fading of Stingray Nebula –...
- 01:02 UTC Backreaction Is Infinity Real?
- 00:57 UTC astrobites SN 2007bi: Without a Trace Title: Supernova 2007bi as a pair-instability explosionAuthors: A. Gal-Yam, P. Mazzali, E. O. Ofek, P. E. Nugent, S. R. Kulkarni, M. M. Kasliwal, R. M. Quimby, A. V. Filippenko, S. ...
- 00:00 UTC One Universe at a T... Message in the Sky
4 Dec 2020
- 23:57 UTC Spaceflight Now Photos: Upgraded Dragon cargo capsule rolls out to pad 39... Ready for a flight to the International Space Station, SpaceX’s first upgraded Dragon cargo capsule rolled out to pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week in ...
- 23:00 UTC io9 Space Let's Ruin the Moon
- 22:38 UTC Parabolic Arc Virgin Galactic Unveils Flight Suits for SpaceShipTwo Pil... On Friday, Virgin Galactic unveiled new flight suits for the pilots who will fly SpaceShipTwo. The company worked on the suits with Under Armour, which also designed similar garments for ...
- 22:37 UTC ABC A speck of space dust that took six years to collect is a...
- 22:07 UTC ABC Gretchen Benedix is on a mission to solve the mysteries o...
- 21:49 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... New Fires Scorch the Hills of Southern California The state’s brutal fire season has not ended. Read More...
- 21:08 UTC Parabolic Arc ispace Awarded Two Contracts by NASA for World’s First Co... HAKUTO-R lander. (Credit: ispace) TOKYO (ispace PR) – Today, on December 3, 2020, at 1:00PM EST, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that it has awarded contracts to ...
- 21:00 UTC Discover The History of the Old Farmer's Almanac and Why Its Popul...
- 20:46 UTC Lowell Observatory The Longest Night Edward Israel died of hunger on a frozen spit of land nearly a thousand miles north of the Arctic Circle. He was only 24 years old.How the young astronomer ended ...
- 20:42 UTC SciTech Daily To the Milky Way’s Anticenter and Beyond: Gaia’s New Deta...
- 20:37 UTC The Planetary Socie... The Planetary Society Live
- 20:08 UTC Universe Today 25 Years of Solar Cycles in One Incredible SOHO Mosaic
- 20:07 UTC Space Calendar December 7-13, 2020 / Vol 39, No 49 / Hawai`i Island, USA Return to the Moon for Good, 1st Woman on the Moon Mid-2020s Decade The visionary, extensive 21st Century Artemis program would keep USA on course to be the first to ...
- 20:04 UTC Universe Today An Astronomer Checked to see if There's a Secret Message ...

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