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10 Mar 2014
- 11:31 UTC Hyperbola On a sadder note: we say goodbye to Skylab astronaut Bill... Skylab astronaut Bill Pogue has died on 3 March at the age of 84. Originally selected as an astronaut in 1966, having previously been a pilot in the US Air ...
- 11:30 UTC collectSPACE.com: S... SpaceX's 3rd space station resupply flight gets three-sid... Preparations are underway for the launch of SpaceX's third cargo run to the International Space Station — including the release of the mission patch for the Commercial Resupply Services 3 ...
- 11:30 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... SpX-3's three-sided patch SpaceX's patch for its third Dragon mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) has three sides and depicts three milestones for the NASA-contracted Commercial Resupply Services-3 (CRS-3) ...
- 11:25 UTC Physics World Blog Getting a measure of Brazilian research With Brazil preparing for the World Cup, two upcoming reports from IOP Publishing examine research in the world's fifth biggest country
- 10:46 UTC Rosetta Blog I spy…with my Very Large Telescope… Tweet ...Rosetta's comet! For the last few months, comet 67P/CG has been behind the Sun from our vantage point on Earth, but it's now back in the field of view ...
- 10:22 UTC Universe Awareness ... UNAWE astronomy activities re-engage typhoon-hit Filipino... Children that were affected by the Supertyphoon Haiyan in the Philippines had a different kind of treat last February through UNAWE’s national programme coordinator, Dr. Rogel Mari Sese and his ...
- 10:14 UTC Hyperbola Long March 4B/CBERS-3 launch failure was caused by fuel l... The China Great Wall Industries Corp is reported by Space News to have revealed the cause of the Long March 4B launch failure in December 2013. According to the report, ...
- 10:00 UTC AmericaSpace Wakata Assumes First Japanese ISS Command, as Kotov’s Cre... Outgoing Expedition 38 crewmen (bottom row, left to right) Mike Hopkins, Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky) are pictured with their new Expedition 39 comrades (top row, left to right) Koichi ...
- 10:00 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 03/10/2014 – Ephemeris – Observibg the Moon tonight and t... Ephemeris for Monday, March 10th. The sun will rise at 8:03. It’ll be up for 11 hours and 38 minutes, setting at 7:42. The moon, 3 days past first quarter, ...
- 10:00 UTC Galileo Mobile Help us translate our first documentary One of the ways used by GalileoMobile to extend its impact to a worldwide audience is through deliverable products. The GalileoMobile products convey a message of interaction beyond borders and ...
- 09:41 UTC Hyperbola Satmex name is no more as it becomes Eutelsat Americas The European satellite operator, Eutelsat Communications, has announced that the Mexican communications satellite operator Satmex, which Eutelsat formally acquired in January in its build to expand further in the Americas, ...
- 09:00 UTC Planet Hunters Blog Planet Hunters at the Citizen Science in Astronomy Worksh... Last week, I co-hosted and co-organized the workshop on Citizen Science in Astronomy in Taiwan at my home institute, the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Academia Sinica. The aim ...
- 09:00 UTC New Scientist 'I'd give new Kepler mission a 150 per cent chance' NASA astrophysicist Steve Howell is confident that a new method of aiming the crippled Kepler space telescope will convince the space agency to keep it alive
- 07:40 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 10MAR2014 Carnegie Mellon's autonomous Nomad robot successfully finds meteorites in AntarcticaPITTSBURGH -- Carnegie Mellon University's Nomad robot, which conducted an autonomous search for meteorites in Antarctica from Jan. 20-30, has successfully ...
- 07:10 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2014-03-09 SA: Paul SO: Fred Others: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - the night was cut short by high humidity. managed to get some data in the very poor seeing conditions before closing. ...
- 07:01 UTC Sky Lights Q&A: Throwing a Ball to the Moon Question: My friend told me that if I threw a baseball fast enough at the Moon, it would fall to the ground there and not come back to me. He ...
- 07:00 UTC NASA Astrobiology Alien Moons Baked Dry An Earthlike moon orbiting a gas giant host planet. Credit: NASAAccording to a new study, heat radiating from gas giant planets could pose a problem for otherwise habitable exomoons in ...
- 05:48 UTC Space Fellowship Gamma Rays from Galactic Center Dark Matter? What is creating the gamma rays at the center of our Galaxy? Excitement is building that one answer is elusive dark matter. Over the past few years the orbiting Fermi ...
- 05:41 UTC Space Fellowship This Week On The Space Show The Space Show, hosted by David Livingston at www.TheSpaceShow.com, will have the following guests this week: 1. Monday, March 10, 2014, 2-3:30 PM PDT (21-22:30 GMT) DR. ERIC SEEDHOUSE returns ...
- 04:34 UTC 21st Century Waves State of the Wave: 10 Space Trends for 2014 – Getting Our... 2014 will be a “Year of Decision” in the U.S as a mid-term election will influence how rapidly the anticipated new Apollo-level international Space Age will arrive. Specifically, U.S. voters ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Ice stringers, Lake Michigan Southwesterly winds pull strands of land-fast ice out into the lake from Washington Island and Detroit Island.
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Ice stringers, Lake Michigan Southwesterly winds pull strands of land-fast ice out into the lake from Washington Island and Detroit Island.
- 03:38 UTC Beyond Apollo Best of Beyond Apollo I Wednesday is the beginning of Beyond Apollo’s third year as a WIRED Science Blog. To celebrate, I’ll post links to five of my personal favorite Beyond Apollo posts each day ...
- 03:24 UTC The Original Rocket... 'Cosmos' - NASA Images of a Space-Time Odyssey 'Cosmos' - NASA Images of a Space-Time Odyssey, a set by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr.
- 03:07 UTC Universe Today Virtual Star Party – March 9, 2014 We hold the Virtual Star Party every Sunday night as a live Google+ Hangout on Air. We begin the show when it gets dark on the West Coast. If you ...
- 02:59 UTC The Planetary Socie... The new Cosmos: My review is coming; what did you think? As I write this, much of the U.S. has seen the debut of the new Cosmos, except for those of us on the left coast. I'm not going to watch ...
- 01:23 UTC Parabolic Arc Falcon 9 Conducts Static Test Ahead of March 16 Launch SpaceX’s third commercial cargo flight to the International Space Station is set to blastoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday, March 16 at 4:41 a.m. EDT.
- 01:18 UTC ABC Asteroid strike drenched world in acid rain ACID BATH: Global ocean acidification caused by acid rain occurred just days after a massive asteroid slammed into the Earth 66 million years ago, new research suggests.
- 00:58 UTC Pale Blue Blog Cosmos Liveblog Week 1: “Standing Up in the Milky Way” Hey everyone! We’re working on ramping up new content for Paleblue.blog, and part of that effort will be live-blogging about episodes from the new series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. I’ll ...
- 00:22 UTC Space Politics Russian tensions add a sharper edge to EELV hearing Wednesday’s hearing by the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee on “National Security Space Launch Programs” unfolded, as many expected, as a debate between United Launch Alliance (ULA) and SpaceX. ULA ...
9 Mar 2014
- 23:57 UTC Astromick Jupiter & Ganymede shadow RRGB - 090314 - 18:26UTC Jupiter & Ganymede shadow RRGB - 090314 - 18:26UTC, a photo by Mick Hyde on Flickr.
- 23:56 UTC Astromick Southern Highlands - Moon - 090314 Southern Highlands - Moon - 090314, a photo by Mick Hyde on Flickr.
- 23:56 UTC Astromick The Moon - 090314 The Moon - 090314, a photo by Mick Hyde on Flickr.
- 23:54 UTC Universe Today Historic SpaceX Landing Leg Rocket and Dragon Bound for S... The historic blast off of the first SpaceX rocket equipped with ‘landing legs’ and also carrying a Dragon cargo vessel bound for the Space Station is slated for March 16 ...
- 22:52 UTC STARtorialist It’s about that time, y’all! Cosmos premiers TONIGHT... It’s about that time, y’all! Cosmos premiers TONIGHT at 9pm EDT. In honor of the big event, we asked you to show us your Cosmos pride. Here are @EverydayWondern, @ShafreelCosmos, ...
- 22:51 UTC NASA Watch Space Florida's Space Tourism Marketing Plan Space Florida Space February 3 FY 2014 Tourism Report DEO Deliverables, Space Florida "Space Florida's objective for the space tourism marketing appropriation is to define and develop the scope of ...
- 22:33 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... Korea Fireball Meteor 09MAR2013 Korea Fireball Meteor 09MAR2013 Korea Fireball Meteor 09MAR2013v.1 c2014 LunarMeteoriteHunter / Google Earth Report your meteor sightings please- http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2000/11/meteor-fireball-report-form.html Please help get the word about this event so that we ...
- 22:27 UTC Parabolic Arc The Rogozin Plan: Competitiveness Through Gov’t Control, ... RIA Novosti has the latest space pronouncements from Russia’s Josef Stalin-admiring Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, whom Vladimir Putin has put in charge of revamping the defense and space sectors. ...
- 22:13 UTC Eagle's Eye on the ... Jupiter Double Shadow Transit & Moon. 09/03/2014 A nice clear night after a glorious almost spring-like sunny day. Went out to capture the double transit of Ganymede and Io’s shadows both going across the planet at the ...
- 22:12 UTC AMSAT-UK A chat with Bob Twiggs KE6QMD, father of the CubeSat Radio amateur Bob Twiggs KE6QMD is interviewed by Stephen Clark in Spaceflight Now. Read the interview at http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1403/08cubesats/ The team behind the recently launched $50sat PocketQube programmed the satellite’s FM ...
- 21:30 UTC The Guardian Starwatch: The Lion in Spring We may be familiar with The Lion in Winter, the title of the 1968 film starring the late Peter O'Toole, but, with Leo on the ascendency, The Lion in Spring ...
- 21:09 UTC Astro Watch Koichi Wakata Becomes the First Japanese ISS Expedition C... Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, who is in his long-duration stay on board the ISS, has succeeded Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and become the 39th ISS Commander ...
- 20:12 UTC Parabolic Arc Sierra Nevada Deepens Cooperation With NASA Marshall on D... A note from Sierra Nevada Corporation: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) will host a news conference on Tuesday, March 11, to announce a newly expanded ...
- 20:05 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Japanese Astronaut Takes Command of Space Station Pledging to uphold the Japanese spirit of "wa" -- harmony -- Koichi Wakata took command of the International Space Station on Sunday, the first Japanese astronaut to lead a human ...
- 19:52 UTC Astro Watch Former Puerto Rico Navy Base a Possible Launch Pad for Sp... A former U.S. Navy base in eastern Puerto Rico could be the place where Virgin Galactic chooses to build a launch pad for future commercial space flights, an option being ...
- 19:39 UTC Not Even Wrong Multiverse Mania at Wikipedia The quality of Wikipedia entries about mathematics is often quite good, but unfortunately the same cannot be said for their entries about physics. I happened to take a look today ...
- 19:32 UTC Astro Watch Falcon 9 Rocket Conducts Static Fire Ahead of CRS-3 Missi... SpaceX have fired up their Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle during a Static Fire (Hot Fire) test on Saturday, allowing for a health check and countdown dress rehearsal ahead of ...
- 19:28 UTC Parabolic Arc Will Virgin Galactic Operate Out of Puerto Rico? Reports have surfaced that Virgin Galactic is looking to operate out of a decommissioned U.S. Navy facility named Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico. The base could host both suborbital space ...
- 19:00 UTC Sydney Observatory Daily cosmobite: Jupiter and the Moon The giant planet Jupiter is shining brightly in the northern sky each evening. It is still very bright as it was only in early January when it was at opposition, ...
- 18:46 UTC Astro Bob Daylight saving time puts spring stars on ice / ‘Cosmos’ ... It happens every year. The seasonal westward drift of the stars is temporarily put on hold when we “spring forward” an hour on the second Sunday in March. With daylight ...