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- 21 May 2013
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06:54 UTC
ESA Top News
Moonrise
Space Science image of the week: ESA’s Rosetta captures moonrise over the Pacific during its first Earth flyby
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05:00 UTC
Japan Aerospace Exp...
[release] Launch of the H-II Transfer Vehicle "KOUNOTORI4...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) decided to launc
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05:00 UTC
Japan Aerospace Exp...
[release] Launch of Spectroscopic Planet Observatory for ...
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch the Spectroscopic Planet Observatory for Recognitiono
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00:02 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA and The White House Pay Tribute to Sally Ride
NASA and President Obama are honoring the life and legacy of Sally Ride on the day a national tribute was held for the first American woman in space.
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06:54 UTC
ESA Top News
- 20 May 2013
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23:48 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
IRIS Mission Readies For a New Challenge
NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission to observe a mysterious region of the solar atmosphere that may be crucial to understanding what powers space weather.
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23:40 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
NASA Simulates 'Pulsar-On-A-Table' for Testing
A NASA team built a first-of-a-kind testbed to simulate the distinctive signature of pulsars - which radiate in regular bursts anywhere from seconds to milliseconds.
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23:16 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA, Bigelow to Discuss Private Sector Human Space Explo...
NASA and Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas are holding a media availability at 1:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, May 23, to discuss the agency's Space Act Agreement with the company for ...
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23:10 UTC
NASA Breaking News
Sally Ride National Tribute at Kennedy Center Tonight
NASA and Sally Ride Science are inviting journalists to tonight's "Sally Ride: A Lifetime of Accomplishment, A Champion of Science Literacy," a national tribute to America's first woman in space. ...
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23:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
International Space Station Program, Science Briefing Set
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will host a news conference and social media event at 1 p.m. CDT (2 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, May 22, to preview the upcoming Expedition ...
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20:10 UTC
Arianespace Press R...
Readying Arianespace's first mission for O3b Networks: La...
Preparations for Arianespace's next Soyuz flight are in full swing at multiple locations across the Spaceport, including the start-up of satellite installation in the S5 payload preparation center, and initiation ...
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19:04 UTC
NASA's Ames Researc...
NASA Administrator Visits Ames, Meets Media
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will visit Ames on May 24 to view demonstrations of the PhoneSat mission and 3D printing activity, and to meet with local news media.
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18:14 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland."
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17:25 UTC
Thirty Meter Telesc...
2013 Akamai Observatory Career Exploration Looking for We...
TMT, in partnership Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI) and Hawaii Community College, encourages high school students to sign up for this summer's Akamai Observatory Career Exploration session, offered June 10th through ...
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13:07 UTC
ESA Top News
Webcast
Watch live: NEO Coordination Centre inauguration 22 May 15:00 CEST start
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10:37 UTC
Science and Technol...
Do you know how lasers have changed your world?
STFC's Central Laser Facility is host to a range of advanced laser systems that are super fast, super precise and super intense. A multi-national community of chemists, biologists and physicists ...
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10:00 UTC
Universe Awareness ...
The Invisible Universe Exposed
Pictures of space are often gorgeous. One of the most exciting things about them is that, very often, they show us things that are invisible to the human eye. This ...
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08:14 UTC
ESA Top News
ESA astronaut Timothy Peake set for Space Station
ESA’s Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain, announced today that the ISS Multilateral Crew Operations Panel has decided on Friday, 17 May agreed to accept his proposal to fly astronaut Timothy Peake ...
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04:00 UTC
NASA Marshall Space...
Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot to Visit Marshal...
NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot will visit the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., on Wednesday, May 22.
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04:00 UTC
NASA Marshall Space...
Burden Named Director of Office of Diversity and Equal Op...
NASA'S Marshall Space Flight Center has named Irma C. Burden director of the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity.
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04:00 UTC
NASA Marshall Space...
Vanderbilt Takes Top Prize in Student Launch Challenge
The Aerospace Club of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., took first prize in the 2013 annual NASA Student Launch Projects challenge.
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04:00 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
NASA Launching Experiment to Examine the Beginnings of th...
Scientists seek to gain answers to questions about the formation of stars and galaxies with the launch of the CIBER sounding rocket on June 4 from Wallops.
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
Vanderbilt Takes Top Prize in NASA Student Launch Challen...
The Aerospace Club of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., took first prize in the 2013 annual NASA Student Launch Projects challenge, in which student teams design, build and fly small ...
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00:40 UTC
ESA Top News
Space drives e-mobility
An ESA business incubation start-up company is helping major car manufacturers to develop electric vehicle concepts and improve safety systems by turning ideas quickly into virtual prototypes.
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23:48 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
- 17 May 2013
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19:05 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
JPL: Galaxy's Ring of Fire
This ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars.
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19:00 UTC
NAOJ Top News
Science Results - Subaru Telescope Observations and the C...
A team of astronomers has found the farthest known solar twin in the Milky Way Galaxy-- CoRoT Sol 1, which has about the same mass and chemical composition as the ...
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18:45 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely altered by ...
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17:00 UTC
Stony Brook Astrono...
Dr. Deng Wei Donates $1 Million for Endowed Chair in Phys...
Stony Brook University received a $1 million donation from Dr. Deng Wei to establish the Yang Chen Ning – Deng Wei Endowed Chair in Physics and Astronomy. The gift was ...
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14:40 UTC
Royal Astronomical ...
Annual Reports archive
Each year the Council of the RAS (index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=192&layout=blog&Itemid=184) produces an Annual Report, which summarises the society's activity during the previous calendar year. The report is presented to the next Annual ...
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12:00 UTC
ESA Top News
Proba-V opens its eyes
Earth watcher Proba-V is in good health following its launch last week. The Vegetation imager has been switched on and the first image has been captured over western France.
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09:41 UTC
ESA Top News
Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 13-17 May 2013
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04:30 UTC
Japan Aerospace Exp...
[release] SHIZUKU (GCOM-W1) to Provide Earth's Physical Q...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has started offering eight kinds of products whose phy
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04:00 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
Hubble Peers Through a Spacetime Magnifying Glass
This Hubble image shows the galaxy cluster Abell S1077. The matter condensed in such clusters is so high their gravity warps the fabric of spacetime.
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04:00 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
NASA’s STEREO Detects a CME From the Sun
On 5:24 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2013, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar ...
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Seeks Proposals for Commercial Operations at Kennedy...
NASA released a synopsis Friday announcing plans to issue an announcement for proposals for the commercial use of Launch Pad 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The ...
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA TV Coverage Set for Next Soyuz Space Station Crew La...
NASA Television will provide extensive coverage of the launch and docking of the next crew members who will fly to the International Space Station on Tuesday, May 28.
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00:56 UTC
Science@NASA
Bright Explosion on the Moon
NASA researchers who monitor the Moon for meteoroid impacts have detected the brightest explosion in the history of their program. It was caused by a small boulder-sized meteoroid hitting the ...
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19:05 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
- 16 May 2013
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20:34 UTC
NASA's Spitzer Spac...
Galaxy's Ring of Fire
This galaxy's ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars.
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20:11 UTC
Johns Hopkins Unive...
Johns Hopkins APL Plays Key Role in Test of Second-Genera...
Today, engineers from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., contributed to the successful test of a system critical to the U.S. effort to protect against ...
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20:00 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity now holds the record for farthest driving by a NASA vehicle on a world away from Earth, passing a mark set by an Apollo astronaut-driven rover.
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19:05 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
Galaxy's Ring of Fire
This ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars.
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19:05 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity now holds the record for farthest driving by a NASA vehicle on a world away from Earth, passing a mark set by an Apollo astronaut-driven rover.
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18:45 UTC
NASA's Goddard Spac...
Cubesat Berth Awarded to Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Me...
A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's last frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy budget.
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18:36 UTC
NASA's Jet Propulsi...
NASA Helps Pinpoint Glaciers' Role in Sea Level Rise
A new study of glaciers worldwide from two NASA satellites has helped resolve differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing and contributing to sea level rise.
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17:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves into Developm...
NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016.
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13:07 UTC
ESA Top News
First new Galileo satellite arrives at ESA for space test...
The first satellite of Galileo’s next phase has arrived at ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands for a rigorous set of tests to check its readiness for launch.
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10:43 UTC
ESA Top News
Next destination: space
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano left for Baikonur, Kazakhstan today, his last stop before heading to the International Space Station on 28 May.
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08:28 UTC
ESA Top News
Earth from Space
Join us Friday, 17 May, at 10:00 CEST for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites
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04:00 UTC
NASA Breaking News
NASA Extends Environmental Testing and Integration Servic...
NASA has extended a contract with Analex Corporation of Fairfax, Va., for Environmental Testing and Integration Services at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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20:34 UTC
NASA's Spitzer Spac...
- 15 May 2013
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20:56 UTC
NASA: Kepler News a...
Kepler Mission Manager Update
At our semi-weekly contact on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, we found the Kepler spacecraft once again in safe mode.
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20:52 UTC
Planetary Society P...
The Planetary Society Announces Conditional Support of NA...
The Planetary Society conditionally supports NASA's plan to capture a small asteroid and place it in lunar orbit. The mission spurs investment in technologies crucial to solar system exploration, such ...
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20:56 UTC
NASA: Kepler News a...



