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21 May 2013
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
20 May 2013
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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."
- 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 ...
- 13:07 UTC ESA Top News Webcast Watch live: NEO Coordination Centre inauguration 22 May 15:00 CEST start
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
17 May 2013
- 19:05 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... JPL: Galaxy's Ring of Fire This ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 09:41 UTC ESA Top News Week In Images Our week through the lens: 13-17 May 2013
- 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
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
16 May 2013
- 20:34 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Galaxy's Ring of Fire This galaxy's ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 19:05 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Galaxy's Ring of Fire This ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
15 May 2013
- 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.
- 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 ...