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28 Feb 2015
- 00:00 UTC AmericaSpace SpaceX Ready for First Dual-Satellite Mission to Geostati... The ABS-3A and Eutelsat 115 West B satellites being readied for a March 1, 2015 launch attempt atop a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Photo ...
27 Feb 2015
- 23:50 UTC Astro Watch Next Space Station Crew Preparing for One Year in Space The US-Russian crew of Expedition 43 to the International Space Station (ISS) is intensively training for the upcoming orbital mission. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly along with Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko ...
- 23:39 UTC Parabolic Arc Khrunichev Signs 15-Year Deal with Gazprom Space Systems MOSCOW (Khrunichev PR) — On 25 February 2015, Khrunichev Space Center (Khrunichev) and OAO Gazprom Space Systems (GSS) signed a number of documents envisaging expanded strategic cooperation between the two ...
- 23:24 UTC Lights in the Dark Oh What a Relief! Cool 3D Views of the Moon via LROC Do you have any of those paper 3D viewers around? You know, with the red and blue lenses? If so, pop ‘em on and check out the image above from ...
- 23:17 UTC Space-For-All at Ho... Video: “Space to Ground” ISS report – Feb.27.15 The latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground report on activities related to the Int. Space Station:
- 23:14 UTC Astro Watch Russia Launches Bars-M Military Satellite A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with Bars-M military satellite blasted off from the Plesetsk space center in northwestern Russia’s Arkhangelsk Region, a defense ministry spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin told RIA Novosti ...
- 23:08 UTC Scientific American Air Force Space Command General on Keeping Space Collisio... Gen. John Hyten, Commander, U.S. Air Force Space Command, talks about the task of tracking all the materials in orbit and keeping them from crashing into each other. Steve Mirsky ...
- 22:46 UTC Scientific American Scientific American and Nature Editors Remember Leonard N... Nimoy inspired many members of the Scientific American community, some of whom offer remembrances here -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 22:38 UTC Scientific American The Disease that Killed ‘Spock’: Chronic Obstructive Pulm... The lung ailment is a leading killer in the United States -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 22:34 UTC The Daily Galaxy The Mars "Methane Equals Life" Debate Rolls On... The Curiosity robot confirms methane in Mars' atmosphere which may hint that life may have existed. An article published in Science confirms the existence of methane fluctuations in the atmosphere ...
- 22:30 UTC SPACE.com Leonard Nimoy's Legacy: Obama, Astronauts Pay Tribute The death of "Star Trek" actor Leonard Nimoy has prompted an outpouring of condolences and heartfelt reflection from astronauts, scientists, celebrities and even President Barack Obama.
- 22:26 UTC SPACE.com Astronauts, President Remember Leonard Nimoy, 'Star Trek'... Astronauts, space scientists and fans remember Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock on TV's 'Star Trek.'
- 22:20 UTC io9 Space The Mohs Scale Covers Everything From Diamonds to Double ... Geologists do it according to the Mohs Scale of Hardness. There. That's your "hardness" joke for the post. Now down to business, with the hardest (and softest) scale there is.Read ...
- 22:12 UTC The Daily Galaxy Saturn's Titan ---"Life Not As We Know It" A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth has been modeled by a team of Cornell University researchers. Taking a ...
- 22:12 UTC Universe Today Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy Leaves a Lasting Legacy Leonard Nimoy played a half-alien-half-human character on Star Trek that gave his life to save his crew but was resurrected, survived having his brain removed, and was transported through time ...
- 21:56 UTC Astro Watch Life 'Not As We Know It' Possible on Titan Liquid water is a requirement for life on Earth. But in other, much colder worlds, life might exist beyond the bounds of water-based chemistry. Taking a simultaneously imaginative and rigidly ...
- 21:56 UTC In the Dark Farewell, Mr Spock I was very sad to hear this afternoon of the death at the age of 83 of actor Leonard Nimoy. Although he did a great many other things in a ...
- 21:47 UTC SPACE.com See Taurus the Bull Chased by 'Bees' in the Winter Sky Why is Taurus the Bull so mad? He's being chased by bees! The Pleiades, that is. Look for Taurus, the Pleiades and many other celestial sights in the Northern Hemisphere ...
- 21:28 UTC Science 2.0 It's Life, Jim, But Not As We Know It A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth..Their hypothetical cell membrane modeled by a team of researchers, is composed of ...
- 21:26 UTC The Universe outvadeofficial: Fill your void Welp, I’ve found a new.... outvadeofficial: Fill your void Welp, I’ve found a new blog to be obsessed with.
- 21:14 UTC NASA Commercial Cre... Get to Know the International Docking Adapters Astronauts Terry Virts and Barry Wilmore will make the third spacewalk Sunday to complete the first in a series of work to outfit the International Space Station with the mechanisms ...
- 21:14 UTC Astro Watch Curiosity Confirms Methane in Mars' Atmosphere The tunable laser spectrometer in the SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) instrument of NASA's Curiosity rover has unequivocally detected an episodic increase in the concentration of methane in Mars' atmosphere ...
- 21:08 UTC Space Calendar March 2-8, 2015 / Vol 34, No 9 / Hawai`i Island, USA Independent Moon Missions Advancing Visionary entrepreneurs, government incentives, property rights considerations and the lure of valuable lunar resources are stimulating a promising push from the commercial sector to advance development ...
- 21:07 UTC SPACE.com Dirt-Watching NASA Satellite Deploys Giant Space Antenna ... A recently launched NASA satellite has just deployed its giant antenna in preparation to collect unprecedented data about soil moisture around the world.
- 21:05 UTC io9 Space The Moon, Venus, & Mars In A Single Frame On February 20, skygazers were treated to a dramatic astronomical dance between Venus, Mars, and the moon. Not since 2008 had these three objects found themselves in such close quarters. ...
- 20:48 UTC Parabolic Arc Shackelton Signs MOU With CASIS for ISS Cargo Return Syst... AUSTIN, Texas (SEC PR) – On 19 February 2015, the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Shackleton Energy Company (SEC) ...
- 20:47 UTC Astro Watch Pockets of Calm Protect Molecules Around a Supermassive B... Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered regions where certain organic molecules somehow endure the intense radiation near the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy ...
- 20:45 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... Apollo XVIII Every midnight in March, New York City's Times Square will transform into Cape Canaveral as Marco Brambilla's Apollo XVIII lifts off onto more than a dozen of the Square's digital ...
- 20:45 UTC collectSPACE.com: S... Artist's 'Apollo 18' moon mission launching onto Times Sq... The countdown is on to the launch of Apollo 18 and you're invited to witness it from New York City's Times Square. "Apollo XVIII" by artist Marco Brambilla weaves footage ...
- 20:39 UTC The Planetary Socie... Pluto Science, on the Surface New Horizons' Principal Investigator Alan Stern gives an update on the mission's progress toward Pluto.
- 20:33 UTC Scientific American The Shifting Politics of NASA's Astronaut Program Ever since President George W. Bush's decision to retire the space shuttles in the aftermath 2003's Columbia disaster, NASA's human spaceflight program has been adrift. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 20:26 UTC Space Fellowship Station Managers “Go� For Sunday Spacewalk International Space Station managers met Friday morning and gave approval to proceed with U.S. EVA 31 on Sunday, March 1 as planned. The Mission Management Team reviewed the status of ...
- 20:09 UTC Starts With A Bang! Ask Ethan #77: Humans in the vacuum of space (Synopsis) “A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.” -Tennessee Williams The depiction of dying in space — by exposure ...
- 20:08 UTC Starts With a Bang! Ask Ethan #77: Humans in the vacuum of space Will you explode, freeze, or boil? Advice on how to maximize your life.Continue reading on Medium »
- 20:06 UTC Space Safety Magazi... Progress 58 Booster Captured in Very Low Orbit The Soyuz upper stage of the recent Progress 58 launch on February 17 passed a day later at just 166 kilometers above the ground with an angular speed of more ...
- 20:05 UTC Universe Today Weekly Space Hangout – February 27, 2015 Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Alessondra Springmann (@sondy) (...)Read the rest of Weekly Space Hangout – February 27, 2015 (339 words) © Fraser for ...
- 20:00 UTC Scientific American Alien Life Prefers Circles Solar systems with many planets are more likely to feature the circular orbits that could foster intelligent life -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 19:59 UTC Universe Today No, a Dinosaur Skull Hasn’t Been Found on Mars: Why We Se... What is up with the fossils on Mars? Found – a dinosaur skull on Mars? Discovered – a rat, squirrel or gerbil on Mars? In background of images from Curiosity, ...
- 19:59 UTC SPACE.com Supermassive Diet: Black Holes Bulk-Up on Dark Matter It has long been assumed that the size of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy's core is intimately related to the number of stars that galaxy contains -- but ...
- 19:45 UTC Scientific American 'Star Trek''s Leonard Nimoy Dies at 83 Nimoy, the original Spock, got involved in real space science with NASA -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 19:37 UTC STARtorialist R.I.P. Leonard Nemoy. Live long and prosper. LLAP galaxy.... R.I.P. Leonard Nemoy. Live long and prosper. LLAP galaxy tee from SkreenedMr. Spock vulcan salute tee in womens and mens from EtsySpock pop art tee from SkreenedThe Universe will never ...
- 19:31 UTC Universe Today Orbital ATK Aims for March 2016 Antares Rocket Launch Res... The newly merged company Orbital ATK is aiming to restart launches of their “upgraded Antares” rocket in March 2016 using completely new engines, following the catastrophic explosion on Oct. 28, ...
- 19:17 UTC What's Up? The Spac... Ask An Astronaut Hey Space Placers!Forget #llamadrama and #whatcoloristhedress. Two weeks from today, March 13, WTOP will be carrying a LIVE 10-minute interview with two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Mike ...
- 19:09 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Inspirational Leonard Nimoy, Spock of 'Star Trek,' Dies a... Leonard Nimoy has died at the age of 83 at his Los Angeles home, but his work will continue to inspire.
- 19:00 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... Life 'not as we know it' possible on Saturn's moon Titan Taking a simultaneously imaginative and rigidly scientific view, Cornell chemical engineers and astronomers offer a template for life that could thrive in a harsh, cold world - specifically Titan, the ...
- 18:44 UTC Astro Bob Dark Energy Camera sees universe through a comet’s tail Not a bad photo considering no one planned to shoot this picture of Comet Lovejoy with the world’s most powerful digital camera. That’s right. The comet just happened to “be ...
- 18:43 UTC NASA Commercial Cre... Commercial Crew Bookmarks are Here! Pick up a book this weekend if you’re cooped up inside from the rain or tired of shoveling snow and NASA’s Commercial Crew Program will help you keep your place ...
- 18:20 UTC Nature World News NASA's Space Cowboy SMAP Spins Up its Lasso There's a new cowboy in town, and he's getting ready to wrangle in some game-changing data about our planet's water. NASA's new SMAP satellite has successfully deployed its massive antenna ...
- 18:19 UTC The Original Rocket... Ad astra, Leonard http://colchrishadfield.tumblr.com/post/112236005243/leonard-you-lived-long-and-prospered-and-were-an
- 18:11 UTC Nature World News MUSE Gives Best 3D Glimpse into the Universe The MUSE instrument, part of the European Space Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope, has given astronomers the best 3D glimpse into the deep Universe, according to new research.