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24 May 2013
- 18:29 UTC Parabolic Arc Leonardo DiCaprio’s SpaceShipTwo Flight Raises $3.8 Milli... Vasily Klyukin, a 37-year-old Russian real estate mogul who lives in Monaco, will spend $1.5 million to take a flight into space alongside “Titanic” star Leonardo DiCaprio aboard Sir Richard ...
- 18:16 UTC Parabolic Arc Satellite Industry Association Hails Speedy Publication o... Washington, D.C., May 23, 2013 (SAI PR) – The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) applauded the publication today of draft rules to reform the export controls for satellites and related items. ...
- 18:08 UTC NASA Astrobiology Eyeball Earths? Artist’s concept of a planet where one side always faces its star, with the dark side covered in ice. Image Credit: Beau/TheConsortiumBecause they are often tidally locked to their parent ...
- 18:02 UTC The Night Sky Guy Look Up At Planet Sky Show Skywatchers around the world get set to see a striking triple planetary meetup in the evening skies the likes of which won’t be repeated until 2026. From May 24 to ...
- 17:58 UTC astrobites Designing a Self-Steering Spacecraft As we push spacecraft to the edges of our solar system and beyond, it gets harder and harder to navigate them from Earth. But what if spacecraft could steer themselves, ...
- 17:49 UTC Parabolic Arc Planetary Resources to Make Space Telescope Accessible to... WHAT: Planetary Resources’ team of engineers who have designed, built and operated spacecraft throughout the Solar System, including all of the recent U.S. Mars landers and rovers, are now developing ...
- 17:48 UTC NASA Watch Is NASA Building A Rocket They Can't Afford to Fly? Little Love for Asteroid Retrieval Mission; Squyres Deeply Worried about SLS Launch Rate, Space Policy Online "Another concern Squyres stressed is the low flight rate for the Space Launch System ...
- 17:43 UTC Universe Today Hunting for Alien Megastructures It’s a big galaxy out there. Even the most skeptical scientist has to accept that if a civilisation like our own exists, then there’s a good chance we’re not the ...
- 17:29 UTC Parabolic Arc NSS Releases Updated Roadmap to Space Settlement and Deve... A newly illustrated version of the National Space Society publication Milestones to Space Settlement: An NSS Roadmap is now available in three new formats from nss.org/roadmap: (1) A free downloadable ...
- 17:11 UTC SPACE.com Galaxies Sip Through Swirly Straws | Video Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years show that cold gas to power stars spirals into the cores of galaxies along spiral filaments.
- 17:06 UTC SPACE.com Titan Unmasked: 1st Map of Saturn Moon's Topography Revea... The global topographic map of Titan offers an unprecedented look at the surface of Saturn's largest moon.
- 16:28 UTC SPACE.com Minor Lunar Eclipse Tonight: How to Watch It Online The online Slooh Space Camera will provide a live view of the May 24 lunar eclipse at 11:37 p.m. ET (0337 GMT).
- 16:27 UTC SPACE.com Strong Solar Flare Leads Magnetic Loop Dance | Video An M5-class flare erupted on the Sun on May 22nd, 2013 and magnetic fields worked their magic with super-heated plasma. The flare is seen in a combination of extreme ultraviolet ...
- 16:26 UTC AMSAT-UK Small Satellite Workshop features Ham Radio A Small Satellite Developer Workshop featuring Amateur Radio is taking place July 8-13 in Chennai, India. The amateur radio segment is being conducted by the National Institute of Amateur Radio ...
- 16:09 UTC Universe Today What path will lead American humans to Mars? Is it just us, or has there been a lot — a LOT — of talk about getting humans to Mars lately? (...)Read the rest of What path will lead ...
- 15:59 UTC EAAE News Rare merger reveals secrets of galaxy evolution Source: ESA/Herschel Massive galaxy merger caught in the act. Image credits:ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC Irvine/STScI/Keck/NRAO/SAO. A rare encounter between two gas-rich galaxies spotted by ESA’s Herschel space observatory indicates a solution to an ...
- 15:52 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Private Firm Sets Sights on First Moon Base NASA may not be going to the moon anytime soon, but private companies plan to do so.
- 15:37 UTC Sky and Telescope Clarity Sought on a Crucial Variable Star
- 15:34 UTC e! Science News Detection of the cosmic gamma ray horizon: Measures all t... How much light has been emitted by all galaxies since the cosmos began? After all, almost every photon (particle of light) from ultraviolet to far infrared wavelengths ever radiated by ...
- 15:17 UTC SPACE.com Giant Lego Star Wars X-Wing Lands In New York | Video The world's largest LEGO model, a massive Star Wars X-Wing spaceship, was displayed in New York's Times Square Thursday. The spectacular structure consists of more than 5.3 million of the ...
- 15:17 UTC New Scientist Astrophile: Hobbyist stakeout solves dwarf star enigma Amateur observations have bested a measurement made by the Hubble telescope, shoring up the leading explanation for the process that lights up the most common type of black hole
- 15:03 UTC Universe Today Astrophotos: Triple Planetary Conjunction Images are starting to come in of the bright planetary conjunction in the western sky at dusk! Jupiter, Venus and Mercury are snuggling up together, and we’ve got a wonderful ...
- 14:36 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com Stratolaunch and Orbital – The Height of Air Launch New details into the Stratolaunch system have revealed an exciting pairing of a huge carrier aircraft and a highly capable Orbital rocket nicknamed Pegasus II. The “Any Time, Any Orbit” ...
- 14:29 UTC SPACE.com Trip to Space With Leonardo DiCaprio Sells at Auction for... The winner bidder will fly on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo with the actor.
- 14:27 UTC Hyperbola GOES 13 has fault so is temporarily replaced by GOES 14 GOES-13 (East) has experienced an anomaly at 0340 GMT on 22 September 2012 and fell into a safe/storage mode. In not now being pointed at the Earth, it is unable ...
- 14:27 UTC SPACE.com Space History Photo: LASRE Pod Matting to SR-71 A view of the Linear Aerospike SR Experiment pod during a fit-check at Lockheed Martin Skunkworks in Palmdale, California.
- 14:19 UTC SPACE.com Bra Makers' Moon-Suit History to Star in Warner Bros. Mov... The film stars Playtex bra maker's role in NASA's Apollo moon landing spacesuits.
- 14:01 UTC SPACE.com Hadfield Hits: How To Shave In Space | Video The Expedition 35 commander demonstrates how astronauts shave on the International Space Station.
- 13:53 UTC The Planetary Socie... Friday fun: Every moon in the solar system in an homage t... A girl named Hope Johnson performing an homage to Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" in song and ukelele, except instead of the elements, she's singing the names of all the named ...
- 13:48 UTC Centauri Dreams Star Trek, Star Tech Tau Zero’s founding architect (and the former head of NASA’s Breakthrough Propulsion Physics project) weighs in on the kind of technology we see in the new Star Trek movie and ...
- 13:43 UTC Astronotes How NASA Will Catch an Asteroid NASA wants to find an asteroid, capture it, bring it towards us and send it into an orbit around our Moon. This isn’t a plot for a new Hollywood Blockbuster ...
- 13:41 UTC Universe Today Hanging Out with Astronauts On May 23, NASA hosted a Google+ Hangout from the Johnson Space Center with three recently returned International Space Station Astronauts. NASA astronauts Kevin Ford, Tom Marshburn and Canadian Space ...
- 13:33 UTC Bad Astronomy Global Warming Firehose A lot of news has bubbled up about global warming over the past few days, and devoting a post to each one would be a) carpal tunnel syndrome-inducing, and 2) ...
- 13:26 UTC The Daily Galaxy "Rugged Terrain of South Africia Shaped Human Evolution" A new study by archaeologists at the University of York says our upright gait may have its origins in the rugged landscape of East and South Africa which was shaped ...
- 13:25 UTC Astroblog Asteroid 1998 QE2, 24 May 2013 Asteroid 1998 QE2, 24 May, 5x120 second exposures stacked in ImageJ and MAX Z-project applied. R filter, iTelescope T9,Animated GIF from the 5 framesI may be wrong in my assessment ...
- 13:01 UTC Weirdwarp Cassini Creates the First Topographical Map of Titan Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, has been surveyed by Cassini. Cassini, which is a probe that has been looking at Saturn and its moons, has made a topographic map from ...
- 12:55 UTC The Daily Galaxy High Arctic Microbes --Clues to Life on Mars and Enceladu... The temperature in the permafrost on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian high Arctic is nearly as cold as that of the surface of Mars. So the recent discovery by a ...
- 12:31 UTC Rocketeers Spacefleet: EARL RLV progress, investment Spacefleet Ltd. reports progress with its EARL suborbital RLV project, and new international commercial links (thanks to @RobGoldsmith for the note): Contractor Found To Build Scale EARL Model Business Plan ...
- 12:26 UTC Coalition for Space... CSExtra – Friday, May 24, 2013 To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject ...
- 12:19 UTC Rocketeers Team Flipside wins "Most Inspiring" award in NASA Space A... Congratulations to Team Flipside for winning the "Most Inspiring" Award in the NASA International Space Apps Challenge for their app T-10: T-10 from João Neves on Vimeo.
- 12:18 UTC The Guardian Neuroscience V Rocket Science: Which is best? | Dean Burn... When people want to emphasise how complicated something is, they compare it to either brain surgery or rocket science. But it's unlikely that two such different disciplines are equally challenging. ...
- 12:13 UTC Rocketeers Peake vs Paxman #AstroTim holding his own. Interview with J Paxman #newsnight watch at 28min @astro_timpeake bbc.in/112jwyy twitter.com/spacegovuk/sta… — UK Space Agency (@spacegovuk) May 22, 2013 Rocketeer comments: Personally, I'd pay good money ...
- 12:07 UTC SPACE.com New Technique Could Probe Rocky Alien Planet Surfaces A better understanding of exoplanet surfaces would help reveal how common Earth-like planets are in our galaxy.
- 12:07 UTC SPACE.com Lackluster Lunar Eclipse: Full Moon Dips In Earth's Shado... A lunar eclipse tonight (May 24) might not be worth looking up for if you're in North America.
- 12:05 UTC Rocketeers Images from Tim Peake press conference Images from the Tim Peake press conference on the Science Museum Flickr feed:
- 12:03 UTC SPACE.com Cold-Loving Bacteria Offer Clues for Life on Mars The hardy microbes can withstand temperatures close to those on Mars.
- 12:00 UTC Women in Astronomy Making a Difference I've recently become involved with an effort on my campus to establish a Women's Advancement and Research Center. Its purpose is to promote women on campus at all levels of ...
- 12:00 UTC Space Exploration N... Wild weather forecast as seasons change on Titan Scientists will use the Cassini probe to look for evidence of higher winds on Titan, a moon of Saturn. Summer in the northern hemisphere is expected to increase wind speeds ...
- 11:59 UTC SPACE.com How Solar Storms and Nukes Threaten the Power Grid If the sun doesn't get us, then the nuclear air bursts will.
- 11:55 UTC All About Space Would an asteroid in lunar orbit affect the Earth-Moon re... Would any of the proposed plans to capture asteroids affect the Earth's orbit? Asked by Kyle McDonald You have probably read about NASA’s plans to capture an asteroid with the ...