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13 Dec 2018
- 11:46 UTC EarthSky Blog Ancient water found on asteroid Bennu The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was only 15 miles (24 km) from asteroid Bennu – on December 2, 2018 – when it captured the 12 high-resolution images that make up this mosaic. ...
- 11:29 UTC Parabolic Arc Kleos Space Dual-lists on Frankfurt Stock Exchange Luxembourg 12th December 2018- Luxembourg-based Kleos Space S.A. (ASX: KSS), state-of-the-art space technology operator, is pleased to announce the dual-listing of the company’s shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange trading ...
- 11:07 UTC Astro Watch Russian Cosmonauts Find Hole in Soyuz Spacecraft During S... Expedition 57 Flight Engineers Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos completed on Tuesday a spacewalk lasting 7 hours and 45 minutes. The two cosmonauts opened the hatch to the ...
- 10:44 UTC Astro Watch Calibrating Cosmic Mile Markers New work from the Carnegie Supernova Project provides the best-yet calibrations for using type Ia supernovae to measure cosmic distances, which has implications for our understanding of how fast the ...
- 10:37 UTC Astronomy Now Don’t miss the Geminid meteor shower 13–14 December 2018 The Geminid meteor shower is predicted to peak around 12h UT (midday GMT) on Friday the 14th this year, though shooting star rates should be high from 8pm GMT on ...
- 10:20 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Comet 46P/Wirtanen Comet 46P/Wirtanen is in our night sky and visible without a telescope. I cannot say it is a naked-eye object, but I will qualify that by telling you I have ...
- 10:16 UTC All About Space Rosetta detected the birth of a baby bow shock The infant bow shock detected by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The spacecraft detected signs of a formingbow shock around 50 times closer to the comet’s nucleus than anticipated ...
- 08:51 UTC Space News Intelsat launches broadband service aimed at military and... WASHINGTON — Satellite communications provider Intelsat announced on Thursday it is launching a new in-flight broadband service aimed at military and government aircraft.The service, called FlexAir, was the result of ...
- 08:31 UTC Parabolic Arc Video of Starliner Simulation Hey @StephenCurry30, while you’re down visiting @NASA_Johnson, we’ll teach you how to fly the #Starliner to the @Space_Station. Wonder how much vert you can get in zero gravity? pic.twitter.com/zZeCuAAtsX— Boeing ...
- 07:48 UTC Backreaction New experiment cannot reproduce long-standing dark matter... To correctly fit observations, physicists’ best current theory for the universe needs a new type of matter, the so-called “dark matter.” According to this theory, our galaxy – as most ...
- 05:51 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2018-12-12 SA: EncarniSO: TheaOthers: Dan��l, Hitesh at the beginning for mirror alignment, The Potters, Moses, Stephen H, Lisa, Craig ----------------------------------------------------------------------Summary---------------------------------------------------------------------- Good clear night - observed a number of targets for various ...
- 05:28 UTC Astroengine InSight Mars Lander Gets Used to Its New Digs, Snaps a Se... The NASA mission looks like it’s getting comfortable in Elysium Planitia. The view from InSight’s Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC), which is attached to the lander’s robotic arm, looking over the ...
- 05:22 UTC Space News Virgin Galactic ready for milestone SpaceShipTwo flight MOJAVE, Calif. — A test flight more than a decade in the making is scheduled to take place Dec. 13 as Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle is set to make ...
- 05:01 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 12/13/2018 – Ephemeris – The Geminid meteors will reach t... Ephemeris for Thursday, December 13th. The Sun will rise at 8:11. It’ll be up for 8 hours and 50 minutes, setting at 5:02. The Moon, 2 days before first quarter, ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Night Lights Show Slow Recovery from Maria The hurricane took a disproportionate toll on power supplies in remote areas of Puerto Rico. Read More...
- 04:18 UTC Parabolic Arc Virgin Galactic Coverage for Thursday I’ll be out in the desert tomorrow watching the SpaceShipTwo flight. I’ll be tweeting away progress reports at www.twitter.com/spacecom. The notice to airmen (NOTAM) for this flight ends at 9 ...
- 03:17 UTC SciTech Daily ALMA Provides Unprecedented Views of the Birth of Planets
- 03:14 UTC NASA Watch A Teaching Moment For NASA NASA Head Jim Bridenstine Claps Back At Curry, TMZ "Enter Bridenstine ... who says Curry's claim is so outrageous -- the point guard just cannot be serious. "I think it's ...
- 02:53 UTC SciTech Daily Juno Mission Hits Halfway Point in Data Collection
- 01:57 UTC Spaceflight Now Live coverage: Rocket Lab counts down to its first launch... Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand carrying 10 NASA-funded CubeSat missions into orbit. ...
- 00:56 UTC NASA Space Station ... Well Rested Crew Moves To Human Research, Departure Preps... NASA astronauts Serena Auñón-Chancellor (background) and Anne McClain work inside the Japanese Kibo laboratory module cleaning vents to maintain air circulation aboard the International Space Station.The Expedition 57 crew were ...
- 00:04 UTC Space Fellowship Dancing with the Enemy
12 Dec 2018
- 23:39 UTC Spaceflight Now Rocket Lab preps to launch flock of NASA-funded CubeSats The Electron rocket’s nose cone is emblazoned with the NASA “meatball” patch for the mission launching Wednesday night (U.S. time). Credit: Rocket LabRocket Lab’s Electron rocket is set to launch ...
- 23:15 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Pence to NASA Employees: Get Used to The Fast Pace Vice President Mike Pence visited NASA today and received a briefing on the agency’s efforts to accelerate a return to the Moon, spur innovation with commercial partners, and ensure exploration ...
- 23:13 UTC Space News Air Force Space Command officially takes over as chief bu... WASHINGTON — The Air Force Space Command announced on Wednesday that it has officially assumed responsibility for the procurement of commercial satellite communications services for the Department of Defense. The ...
- 22:53 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Satellites Probe Droppings for Clues About Penguin Popula... An analysis of Landsat imagery shows big colonies of penguins on the Danger Islands are declining. Read More...
- 22:49 UTC Astronomy Weather B... 2018 Geminid Meteor Shower
- 22:30 UTC Astro Watch InSight Lander Takes Its First Selfie NASA's InSight lander isn't camera-shy. The spacecraft used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie - a mosaic made up of 11 images. This is the ...
- 22:22 UTC Space News Satellite industry seeks answers on future direction of m... This article was first published in the SN Military.Space newsletter. If you would like to get our news and insights for national security space professionals every Tuesday, sign up here ...
- 22:17 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com Rocket Lab preparing for NASA mission with Electron launc... Rocket Lab is set to launch their second mission in just over a month on Thursday (local time), in a window opening at 04:07 UTC and lasting until 08:00. The ...
- 22:02 UTC Universe Today A Supernova 2.6 Million Years Ago Could Have Wiped Out th...
- 21:58 UTC Space News C-Band Alliance members promise to buy American for new s... WASHINGTON — Members of the C-Band Alliance have stipulated that they will only buy U.S.-built satellites to replace any capacity lost through the transfer of some C-band spectrum to cellular ...
- 20:59 UTC Lowell Observatory County salvages Lowell Observatory water tank FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Coconino County Parks and Recreation has accepted a donation of a water tank from Lowell Observatory. The tank will be located near the Grandstands at Fort Tuthill ...
- 20:46 UTC Universe Today Finally! Voyager 2 is Now in Interstellar Space The Voyager 2 spacecraft recently crossed the outer edge of the heliopause – the boundary between our Solar System and the interstellar medium – and has joined Voyager 1 in ...
- 20:39 UTC Astro Watch Nobel Prize Winning Pioneer of X-ray Astronomy Riccardo G... Visionary astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi, a longtime professor of astronomy at Johns Hopkins University who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2002, died Sunday. He was 87. Giacconi's many significant ...
- 20:37 UTC Parabolic Arc A Closer Look at the Satellites on the SSO-A Mission Falcon 9 lifts off on Spaceflight SSO-A mission. (Credit: SpaceX webcast)Ever since Spaceflight’s launch of 64 satellites on a single Falcon 9, you’ve probably been wondering what those spacecraft were ...
- 20:36 UTC Space News Harris says first cubesat performing well in orbit SAN FRANCISCO – Harris Corp.’s first small satellite, a six-unit cubesat launched Nov. 29 by India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, is fully operational, receiving commands and transmitting information to the ...
- 20:07 UTC Space News FIRST UP Satcom | Arianespace schedules last 2018 launch ... To receive FIRST UP Satcom, a weekly SpaceNews newsletter for satellite and telecom professionals, sign up here.TOP STORIESArianespace’s final launch of the year is scheduled for Dec. 18 at 11:37 ...
- 20:00 UTC collectSPACE.com: S... China's Chang'e 4 moon lander and rover to touch down as ...
- 20:00 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... Toys to touch down
- 19:22 UTC Astro Watch OSIRIS-REx Discovers Water on Asteroid Bennu From August through early December, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aimed three of its science instruments toward Bennu and began making the mission's first observations of the asteroid. During this period, the ...
- 19:19 UTC Parabolic Arc Four NASA-Sponsored Experiments Set to Launch on Virgin G... SpaceShipTwo Unity during third flight test. (Credit: MarsScientific.com & Trumbull Studios)MOJAVE, Calif. (NASA PR) — A winged spacecraft will soon take off with four NASA-supported technology experiments onboard. Virgin Galactic’s ...
- 19:16 UTC What's Up? The Spac... SKY GUY VIEWING ALERT: GEMINIDS & A COMET Hey Space Placers!We've got the Geminid Meteor Shower and Comet 46P/Wirtanen in the sky right now. The Geminids should provide a really good sky show and the comet is visible ...
- 18:57 UTC Parabolic Arc New Poll: What Do We Call Passengers Who Fly to 80 Kilome... What do we call passengers who fly to 80 km, which requires a small percentage of the energy needed to get to orbit?— Parabolicarc.com (@spacecom) December 12, 2018 New poll ...
- 18:52 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA’s InSight Takes Its First Selfie This is NASA InSight’s first selfie on Mars. It displays the lander’s solar panels and deck. On top of the deck are its science instruments, weather sensor booms and UHF ...
- 18:46 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA Looks to the Future, Seeks Next Level Visionary Aero... NASA is looking for trailblazing ideas that could one day change what’s possible in space. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program is seeking Phase II proposals for the continuation ...
- 18:42 UTC Astro Bob How To Sidestep The Moon And Stay On 46P/Wirtanen’s Tail This map tracks the comet through Dec. 25. I chose to show its position at 8 o’clock Central Time but it will be close to that location even if you ...
- 18:10 UTC Centauri Dreams Early Returns from Bennu The science return from OSIRIS-REx has been surprisingly swift as the spacecraft returns data on near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu. We’re aided here by the timing, as early results are being ...
- 17:58 UTC SPACE.com Smithsonian, NASA Reflect on 'Spirit of Apollo' at Nation...
- 17:51 UTC Telescopic Watch Celestron PowerSeeker 114EQ Telescope Review Celestron’s PowerSeeker 114EQ, like all of its siblings in the PowerSeeker line, are unusable scopes which I don’t recommend to beginners. However, the 114EQ is a little better than the ...

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