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19 Apr 2019
- 11:40 UTC SpaceFlight Insider NG-11 Cygnus begins 3-month ISS stay A file photo of a previous Cygnus spacecraft being captured at the International Space Station. The NG-11 Cygnus arrived at the outpost on April 19, 2019. Photo Credit: NASATwo days ...
- 11:13 UTC Space News Virgin Galactic expects rapid conclusion of SpaceShipTwo ... COLORADO SPRINGS — Virgin Galactic’s chief pilot believes the company will be able to go through the remainder of its SpaceShipTwo test program fairly quickly once test flights of the ...
- 11:00 UTC SPACE.com The 'Star Trek: Discovery' Finale Leaves a Confusing Conc...
- 11:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... Adapting an iPhone for Astrophotography
- 11:00 UTC SPACE.com Make Your Own Gravitational Waves with 'BlackHoles@Home'
- 11:00 UTC SPACE.com Jerrie Cobb, Record-Breaking Pilot and Advocate for Femal...
- 11:00 UTC SPACE.com 50 Years Later, Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins is St...
- 11:00 UTC Scientific American We Need a Space Resources Institute
- 10:00 UTC ESO Blog Behind the black hole
- 09:37 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA Demos CubeSat Laser Communications Capability Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) Spacecraft Configuration. OCSD differs from other space-based laser communication systems because the laser is hard-mounted to the spacecraft body, and the orientation of the ...
- 09:37 UTC Sky and Telescope This Week’s Sky at a Glance, April 19 – 27
- 09:32 UTC NASA Space Station ... Astronaut Commands Robotic Arm to Capture Cygnus Cargo Cr... The Cygnus spacecraft from Northrop Grumman approaches the International Space Station for a robotic captureAt 5:28 a.m. EDT, Expedition 59 Flight Engineer Anne McClain of NASA used the International Space ...
- 09:26 UTC American Meteor Soc... Meteor Activity Outlook for 20-26 April 2019 Roger Craig Smith captured this beautiful green fireball on 06 April 2019 from Bear Valley Springs, California USA. © Roger Craig Smith @RogerCraigSmithDuring this period the moon will reach its ...
- 09:26 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com NG-11 Cygnus, S.S. Roger Chaffee, brings the science to I... Roughly 37 hours after launching from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) in Virginia, Northrop Grumman’s NG-11 Cygnus spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station with 7,600 lbs (3,442 kg) ...
- 09:00 UTC New Scientist Zero-gravity robot cleaner could automatically sterilise ...
- 08:03 UTC NASA Space Station ... NASA TV Coverage Begins of U.S. Cygnus Craft Approaching ... Expedition 59 Flight Engineer Anne McClain of NASA uses the robotics workstation inside the U.S. Destiny laboratory module to practice Canadarm2 robotics maneuvers and Cygnus spacecraft capture techniques.Aboard the International ...
- 08:00 UTC Aviation Week SpaceX’s Heavy-Lift Launcher Enters Commercial Service
- 08:00 UTC Aviation Week Stratolaunch Carrier Aircraft Completes ‘Spot-On’ First F...
- 08:00 UTC Aviation Week SpaceIL’s Lunar Mission Ends in Crash Landing
- 07:34 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 04/19/2019 – Ephemeris – Why Sunday is Easter Ephemeris for Good Friday, Friday, April 19th. Today the Sun will be up for 13 hours and 40 minutes, setting at 8:32, and it will rise tomorrow at 6:50. The ...
- 07:31 UTC Telescopic Watch What is a Star Chart and How Do You Use One? Charles Messier’s star chart of 1764, showing the curved path of a comet. Image Credit: Charles MessierThings have changed a lot over the past ten thousand years or so. Nowadays ...
- 07:14 UTC Parabolic Arc NIAC Award: Low-Cost SmallSats to Explore to Our Solar Sy... Small satellites for exploring the Solar System’s boundaries. (Credit: Robert Staehle)NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) ProgramPhase I Award: Up to $125,000 for 9 MonthsLow-Cost SmallSats to Explore to Our Solar ...
- 05:50 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2019-04-18 SA: RudiSO: VeronicaOthers: Mark, Timmy, Jonno (at the start of the night), Stephanie ----------------------------------------------------------------------Summary---------------------------------------------------------------------- Another really good night with good seeing and stable conditions. Many high priority targets observed. Science ...
- 05:02 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... The Southern Crab Wow! Amazing image of an amazing event. You can get a larger version by clicking the image above. ESA provided a link for a much larger image that I highly ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Tracking Peruvian Forest Loss from Space The Madre de Dios region has a rich concentration of endemic species, but their habitats are being threatened by human activity. Read More...
- 03:12 UTC The Mars Society Zubrin Comments on New Independent Report on Human Mars M... According to an article by Jeff Foust in the April 18th issue of Space News, an “Independent report concludes that a 2033 human Mars mission is not feasible.”Foust reports: “STPI ...
- 00:14 UTC Lowell Observatory AstroAlert: NASA needs YOU! Hi everyone, Do you like science? Secretly wish you worked for NASA? Got a smartphone? Then here’s an opportunity for you! NASA is looking for citizen scientists to help collect ...
18 Apr 2019
- 23:40 UTC Parabolic Arc Former NASA Deputy Administrator Garver Joins Earthrise A... Lori Garver (Credit: NASA)WASHINGTON (Earthrise Alliance PR) — Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator, has teamed with leading environmental and space scientists to form Earthrise Alliance, a philanthropic initiative established ...
- 23:35 UTC Universe Today The World’s Biggest Aircraft – the Rocket-Launching Strat...
- 23:11 UTC NASA Watch Jerrie Cobb Geraldyn "Jerrie" M. Cobb, first woman to pass astronaut testing in 1961 passes away at 88. "After living sixty-six adventure filled years as a pilot and advocate for female pilots, ...
- 21:31 UTC AMSAT-UK SatNOGS satellite ground station article in HackSpace mag... The May edition of HackSpace magazine, issue 18, featuring articles by radio amateur Jo Hinchliffe MW6CYK is available as a free PDF.On pages 34-47 is his special feature on Space, ...
- 21:29 UTC Space News Intelsat-29e declared a total loss WASHINGTON — Fleet operator Intelsat said its first high-throughput satellite, Intelsat-29e, is a “total loss” after attempts to save the malfunctioning satellite proved unsuccessful.Intelsat-29e suffered a fuel leak April 7 ...
- 21:25 UTC SPACE.com China to Launch Ambitious Asteroid-Comet Mission in 2022
- 21:09 UTC Astro Watch Astronomers Discover Third Planet in the Kepler-47 Circum... Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system’s title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, a ...
- 21:08 UTC Parabolic Arc Intelsat Declares Boeing-Built Communications Satellite a... LUXEMBOURG, 18 April 2019 (Intelsat PR) – Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I) announced today that the anomaly previously disclosed on April 10, 2019 has resulted in the total loss of the ...
- 21:02 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Fire Burns Durango Smoke from a large fire in northwest Mexico streamed east. Read More...
- 20:52 UTC Many Worlds Our Ever-Growing Menagerie of Exoplanets While we have never seen an exoplanet with anything near this kind of detail, scientists and artists now do know enough to represent them with characteristics that are plausible, given ...
- 20:51 UTC Universe Today Methane-Filled Lakes on Titan are “Surprisingly Deep”
- 20:47 UTC NASA Space Station ... NASA TV Broadcasts Friday Arrival of U.S. Resupply Ship t... Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter with its prominent cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm in November of 2018.A Northrop Grumman cargo ship ...
- 20:30 UTC collectSPACE.com: S... 50 years later, Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins is st...
- 20:30 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... 'Carrying the Fire'
- 20:00 UTC SPACE.com Power and Romance Clash in 'Star Wars' Costumes, Analysis...
- 19:47 UTC Astro Watch TESS Discovers Its First Earth-sized Planet NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered its first Earth-sized exoplanet. The planet, named HD 21749c, is the smallest world outside our solar system that TESS has identified yet.In ...
- 19:43 UTC Space-For-All at Ho... Videos: TMRO Orbit 12.13 – “How we will survive out in Sp...
- 19:27 UTC Astro Watch Putin Urges Heavy Upgrade of Russian Space Industry Russia needs to heavily upgrade its space industry and improve the sector’s management model, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a Security Council meeting on Tuesday."It is obvious that it ...
- 19:00 UTC SPACE.com Indian Anti-Satellite Test Proves Early Test for Space Fe...
- 18:43 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com Blue Origin sign up historic test stand for engine testin... Blue Origin has signed a Commercial Space Launch Act agreement with NASA for the use of the historic 4670 test stand at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Despite setting ...
- 18:35 UTC Parabolic Arc Toppled Falcon Heavy Core Stage Returns to Port And then the view of the #SpaceXFleet from @Explorationtwr observation deck: Look closely & in addition to the #FalconHeavy center core you can find the #Arabsat6A fairing halves & a ...
- 18:23 UTC AMSAT-UK FUNcube Data Warehouse URL Change Dave G4DPZ reports on a change to the URL used by the AMSAT-UK Data Warehouse for the FUNcube amateur radio satellites.As part of the migration of the data warehouse to ...
- 18:20 UTC Astro Bob Full Broken Snowshoe Moon Shines Tonight And Friday There are many names for full moons, most of which trace back to Native American peoples and the early colonists. April’s full moon is traditionally known as the Full Pink ...

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