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22 May 2013
- 14:59 UTC AMSAT-UK Amateur Radio Satellites for Emergency Communications Grupo de Radioaficionados para Operaciones Satelitales (GROS) Coordinator Raydel Espinet CM2ESP comments on the use of amateur radio satellites for emergency communications and describes how an amateur satellite was used ...
- 14:59 UTC Universe Today Dream Chaser Readies, Gets Set For Flight Testing It was surely one of those moments where NASA could hardly wait to tear off the shrink wrap. (...)Read the rest of Dream Chaser Readies, Gets Set For Flight Testing ...
- 14:58 UTC The Daily Galaxy New Physics "Most-Wanted" List -- The Hunt for Dark Matte... Now that it looks like the hunt for the Higgs boson is over, particles of dark matter are at the top of the physics "Most Wanted" list. Dozens of experiments ...
- 14:48 UTC NASA Tech Briefs Nanosystem 'Forest' Achieves Artificial Photosynthesis Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have reported the first fully integrated nanosystem for artificial photosynthesis. While “artificial leaf” is the popular ...
- 14:36 UTC Space Fellowship First Light Angara Rocket Ready for Launch MOSCOW - Russia’s first light-class modification Angara 1.2PP carrier rocket is ready for its maiden launch, its manufacturer Khrunichev Center said on Wednesday. The first Angara will be sent to ...
- 14:35 UTC SPACE.com Space History Photo: Rendezvous Docking Simulator A multiple exposure image of the Rendezvous Docking Simulator during a training.
- 14:31 UTC Universe Today Revolutionary New Space-Diving Suit Will Rival Anything Y... Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Ron Atkins, a life-long supporter of human space exploration and an ardent advocate of “NewSpace” and Commercial Spaceflight. He curates and maintains ...
- 14:29 UTC The Daily Galaxy The Thirty Meter Telescope --"Next Generation in the Sear... The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) - soon to be the world's widest eye on space - has got the go-ahead for construction on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Most ...
- 14:20 UTC Coalition for Space... House Panel Greets NASA Asteroid Plan With Skepticism, Fa... Plans to robotically capture and corral a small asteroid into a stable lunar orbit so it can be explored byU. S.astronauts as early as 2021 got a chilly reception as ...
- 14:14 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Pavlof Volcano, Alaska Peninsula Three striking photographs of Pavlof Volcano reveal the three-dimensional structure of the eruption plume.
- 14:14 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Pavlof Volcano, Aleutian Islands Three striking photographs of Pavlof Volcano reveal the three-dimensional structure of the eruption plume.
- 14:04 UTC SPACE.com Don't Miss NASA's Cameo in Sci-Fi Film 'Oblivion' 'Star Trek Into Darkness' may be all the rage, but the recent 'Oblivion' is worth it just for NASA's cameo. See where NASA stands in the film.
- 13:41 UTC Universe Today Tributes Mount As Sally Ride’s 30th Anniversary In Space ... Sally Ride was only 32 years old when she flew into space for the first time 30 years ago, in June 1983. She died last year at 61, at an ...
- 13:36 UTC Sky and Telescope Astro-Physics at NEAF 2013
- 13:28 UTC SPACE.com 3D Printed Food Development Funded By NASA | Video NASA is reportedly giving a 3D printing company a six month, $125,000 grant to work on the project.
- 13:28 UTC Sky and Telescope Southern Stars at NEAF 2013
- 13:25 UTC Sky and Telescope NEAF 2013 Videos Are Here!
- 13:25 UTC The Night Sky Guy Future of Kepler and Planet Hunting After news of a malfunctioning rotation wheel that helps point NASA’s planet hunting spacecraft Kepler last week, astronomers are bittersweet about what the future holds. But while so many space ...
- 13:21 UTC Rocketeers From Imagination to Reality 2 (Source: British Interplanetary Society) Date: 14 September 2013, 9 am - 6 pm Venue: 27/29 South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall, London, SW8 1SZ An all-day Space Event. Built on the BIS ...
- 13:08 UTC Universe Today What Do Comet PANSTARRS And Pinocchio Have In Common? While comets can’t tell lies, they do sometimes grow long noses. As the weeks click by and our perspective on Comet L4 PANSTARRS changes, its original plume-like dust tail has ...
- 13:00 UTC AmericaSpace WGS-5 Launch to Mark Delta IV’s Return to Flight United Launch Alliance is currently planning to launch a Delta IV Medium+ 5,4 rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 in Florida. Photo Credit: Jason Rhian / AmericaSpace CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla ...
- 12:30 UTC ESO Announcements Start Receiving The ESO Media Newsletter in your Language Present and future journalists who subscribe to The ESO Media Newsletter can now receive this weekly newsletter in their native language. Current subscribers are invited to visit their Subscription Preferences, ...
- 12:07 UTC Coalition for Space... CSExtra – Wednesday, May 22, 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 ...
- 12:00 UTC AmericaSpace Launch Viewing Guide: Delta IV Medium (WGS-5) United Launch Alliance is currently planning to launch a Delta IV Medium rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 in Florida. Photo Credit: Jason Rhian / AmericaSpace CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — ...
- 12:00 UTC Bad Astronomy UPDATE: Canadian Research Agency Still Selling Out Scienc... Last week, I wrote a post saying the Canadian National Research Council (NRC)—an agency that supports and performs scientific research and development—was “selling out science,” moving from supporting basic research ...
- 12:00 UTC Space Exploration N... Mars rocks examined by NASA rovers Rovers on Mars have been analysing rocks to gain a clearer picture of the planet's past environment and to understand if it once had conditions suitable for life Curiosity's drill ...
- 11:53 UTC Rocketeers Evening Standard comment on UK space I was contacted yesterday by a journalist for the London Evening Standard for brief comment on Tim Peake and the future of UK space. Here's what I wrote:- Tim Peake's ...
- 11:52 UTC open.NASA Global Award Winners for the 2013 International Space App... Today we are announcing the six best in class winners for the 2013 International Space Apps Challenge. The results from 2013 International Space Apps Challenge are incredible. More than 9,000 ...
- 11:30 UTC All About Space Which astronaut is speaking at the start of Daft Punk’s n... Is this a secret NASA transcript indicating that astronauts saw an alien UFO on their way to the Moon? Read on to find out... If you’ve been listening to Daft ...
- 11:09 UTC SPACE.com Mars Meteorite May Fetch $160,000 At Auction The meteorite was found in 2012 in Morocco's Sahara Desert.
- 11:09 UTC The Meridiani Journ... Comment on Curiosity rover ready to start drilling again ... [...] back to work The Meridiani Journal tells how the Curiosity rover ready to start drilling again after just coming out of its month-long [...]
- 11:00 UTC AmericaSpace What Comes After Kepler? The Kepler Space Telescope has had another of its reastion wheels fail, meaning the spacecraft’s mission of finding Earth-like worlds is probably over. Image Credit: NASA Launched on March 7, ...
- 10:15 UTC In the Dark The Moral Activity which Disentangles I came across this last night and thought I would share it with you. It’s the preamble to Edgar Allan Poe‘s famous short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue, ...
- 10:04 UTC Universe Awareness ... Family Science: A Success Story! After four successful sessions, EU Universe Awareness' Family Science has come to an end; for now. During these sessions local families with young children were given the chance to get ...
- 10:02 UTC Hyperbola Bion M1 biological test capsule lands but not all he anim... After a one month mission in orbit, the Russian Bion M1 mission's capsule carrying animals and plants separated from the equipment module of the Bion-M spacecraft at 0232 GMT on ...
- 10:00 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 05/22/2013 – Ephemeris – Where are the bright planets thi... Ephemeris for Wednesday, May 22nd. Today the sun will be up for 15 hours and 4 minutes, setting at 9:11. The moon, 3 days before full, will set at 4:54 ...
- 09:53 UTC SPACE.com Moon or Asteroid? Congress Debates Best Pit Stop to Mars Lawmakers questioned NASA's plan to lasso an asteroid for astronauts to visit.
- 09:46 UTC SPACE.com Russian Space Ark Returns to Earth with Animal Crew, Some... Though not all survived, the animal astronauts could yield important data on the bodily effects of spaceflight.
- 09:00 UTC AmericaSpace Retro Space Images: The Ascent of Apollo 10 The ascent stage of the Apollo 10 Lunar Module rises up from the Moon. Photo Credit: John Young / NASA Remembering Apollo 10 — The Lunar Module “Snoopy” is shown ...
- 07:10 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2013-05-21 SA: Tim SO: Siphelo Others: petri, kai ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- highly variable night mostly lost to clouds and some light rain. managed to squeeze in a couple of P4 blocks ...
- 05:29 UTC Space Fellowship Kepler Mission Manager Update Following the apparent failure of reaction wheel 4 on May 11, 2013, engineers were successful at transitioning the spacecraft from a Thruster-Controlled Safe Mode to Point Rest State at approximately ...
- 04:00 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... RNA s Hidden Abilities on Ancient Earth A new study shows that RNA may have a more varied role in the cells of ancient organisms on the early Earth.
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Universe News Herschel Space Observatory Finds Mega Merger of Galaxies A massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation.
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Space Shuttle... NASA Hosts Google+ Hangout with Recently Returned Space S... NASA will host a Google+ Hangout with the three recently returned International Space Station astronauts from 3-4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 23.
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Tornado and Severe Thunderstorms Strike Oklahoma A supercell thunderstorm system spawned a destructive tornado near Oklahoma City on May 20, 2013.
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Tornado and Severe Thunderstorms Strike Oklahoma A supercell thunderstorm system spawned a destructive tornado near Oklahoma City on May 20, 2013.
- 03:56 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... MBIQ Detects Alberta NWT Canada Meteor 21MAY2013 MBIQ Detects Alberta NWT Canada Fireball Meteor 21MAY2013 If you witnessed a meteor event please file a meteor sighting report on this site; thank you.http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.jp/2011/12/december-2011-meteorfireball-sighting.htmlPlease also get the word out ...
- 02:23 UTC ABC Axe likely for asteroid search program STARSTUFF PODCAST: The only program searching for Earth-threatening asteroids in the southern hemisphere could be forced to shut, because of lack of funding. Also: the Sun unleashes a series of ...
- 01:48 UTC Space Safety Magazi... Air Force Chief of Safety Talks Space Situational Awarene... On May 21st, the 6th IAASS Conference “Safety is Not an Option” kicked off in Montreal. US government officials, barred from international travel by budget constraints within their agencies, have ...
- 01:30 UTC Discovery News - Sp... 3-D Printed Pizza to Feed Mars Colonists? Enter the 3-D printer: your all-in-one solution to habitat-building, gun-making and now space pizza preparation! Continue reading →