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6 May 2013
- 18:00 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Canadian Astronaut Jeremy Hansen Back in his Hometown Longueuil, Quebec, May 6, 2013 – On May 7, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be back in Western Ontario to meet with students and teachers from the ...
- 17:21 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Mining Competitio... Fifty teams of undergraduate and graduate students from around the world will demonstrate their lunar excavator robots May 20 - 24 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- 09:54 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Springing into action Spring has arrived and thousands of schoolchildren are stretching their muscles and brains to reach the finishing line of Mission-X. After six weeks of activities inspired by astronaut training, these ...
- 08:09 UTC ESA Space Science Destination Earth Space science image of the week: solar storm heading for Earth
- 05:05 UTC Science@NASA Glow-in-the-Dark Plants on the ISS
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Announces Winners of Student 'Reel Science Communica... NASA has selected the winners of NASA's educational "REEL Science Communications" video contest.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Aviation Safety Analyst Flies with Blue Angels Abegael Jakey, pilot and NASA aviation safety advocate, just flew with the Blue Angels. What did you do today?
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Arianespace Flight VV02 scheduled for the night of May 6 ... Given the weather conditions over the Guiana Space Center on May 5, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace have decided to restart the countdown for Vega Flight VV02. This ...
4 May 2013
- 22:56 UTC ESA Top News Strong easterly winds postpone Vega countdown The second Vega flight, due on 4 May from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, has been postponed. The countdown was proceeding normally until it was halted 30 minutes before the ...
- 03:07 UTC Arianespace Press R... Unfavorable high-altitude winds postpone Vega’s mission f... High-altitude winds over the Spaceport in French Guiana have resulted in the decision by Arianespace and the European Space Agency to postpone tonight’s Vega mission with three satellite payloads. rner.com/~ff/Arianespace?a=DMn8sV9V5ms:z8hk1az5tB4:F7zBnMyn0Lo">
- 02:11 UTC ESA Top News Launch postponed The Vega VV02 launch is postponed due to unfavourable weather conditions
3 May 2013
- 23:45 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Sun Emits Mid-Level Flare The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare on May 3. Large enough flares can disrupt radio signals, but this flare's "blackout" has already subsided.
- 19:15 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hubble Sees the Remains of a Star Gone Supernova These thin, blood-red shells of gas are remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded violently as a supernova around 600 years ago.
- 18:45 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA High School STEM Challenge Announces Winners An integrated science, technology, engineering and mathematics program focused on NASA's forthcoming Webb telescope, has named its 2012-2013 first place team.
- 18:38 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Study Projects Warming-Driven Changes in Global Rain... A NASA-led modeling study provides new evidence that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall and drought.
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Swift Gamma-... NASA's Fermi, Swift See 'Shockingly Bright' Burst A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world. The eruption, which is classified as a gamma-ray burst, or ...
- 14:36 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Study Projects Warming-Driven Changes in Global Rain... A NASA-led modeling study provides new evidence that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall and drought.
- 14:21 UTC Science and Technol... UK joins the world's largest nuclear physics research fac... The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has today (3 May 2013) signed an agreement that makes the UK an associate member of FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) ...
- 14:08 UTC ESA Top News Turn your satnav idea into business Ready to take the next step with your satnav idea? ESA’s business incubation centres are offering help through this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition.
- 13:00 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Commander Chris Hadfield Communicates Through Amateur Rad... Longueuil, Quebec, May 3, 2013 – As part of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield will answer questions live ...
- 10:00 UTC ESA Top News Week In Images Our week through the lens: 29 April - 03 May 2013
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Record-Setting 'Shockingly Bright' Burst A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Partners With Utah State University's Space Dynamics... Goddard has entered into a Space Act Agreement with Utah State University to develop a high-resolution optical encoder.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Final countdown underway for Vega’s second flight from th... Tonight’s mission of the lightweight Vega launcher with three satellite passengers from French Guiana is on track, as the countdown continues for an 11:06:31 p.m. liftoff at the Spaceport.
2 May 2013
- 20:47 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... LADEE Passes Thermal Test NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Observatory completes Thermal-Vacuum testing at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Technicians at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., install ...
- 19:01 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... GOES-R EXIS Instrument Ready for Integration The first of six instruments that will fly on GOES-R, NOAA’s next-generation of geostationary operational environmental satellites, has been completed on schedule, seven months before its scheduled installation onto the ...
- 19:00 UTC Stony Brook Astrono... Two SBU Professors Named 2013 Guggenheim Fellows Two Stony Brook University professors – Leonardo Rastelli, PhD and Sheila Silver, PhD – have been named 2013 Guggenheim Fellows based on distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise ...
- 18:00 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Music Monday 2013 Astronaut Chris Hadfield to Sing With Students Live From Space in a Coast-to-Coast Concert - Longueuil, Quebec, May 2, 2013 – For his final live connection with Earth before returning ...
- 17:45 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Opens New Era in Measuring Western U.S. Snowpack A new NASA airborne mission is producing the most accurate measurements to date of how much water is in the snowpack of two mountain watersheds in California and Colorado.
- 17:41 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... 'Tis the Season -- for Plasma Changes at Saturn NASA's Cassini mission helps reveal seasonal changes in the bubble of charged particles around Saturn, providing a clue to some long-standing mysteries.
- 16:21 UTC Science and Technol... World's Largest Science Experiment comes to Northern Irel... The world's largest science experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (the LHC), and the man behind the Higgs particle theory, are coming to Belfast as part of a week-long public exhibition ...
- 15:29 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Cluster:Cluster hears the heartbeat of magnetic reconnect... For the first time, scientists have resolved the detailed structure of the core region where magnetic reconnection takes place in the magnetosphere of Earth using unprecedented wave measurements. The study, ...
- 14:45 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Minister Moore Unveils Exhibit for Canada's National Spac... Longueuil, Quebec, May 2, 2013 – Today, the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, unveiled the permanent Canadarm display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
- 12:27 UTC ASTRON Neutron stars as laboratories In de week van 6-10 mei komen sterrenkundigen uit de hele wereld samen in Amsterdam voor een symposium over neutronensterren. Read more
- 10:00 UTC ESO Top News An Anarchic Region of Star Formation The Danish 1.54-metre telescope located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars ...
- 10:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Cloudy with a Chance of Star Birth There's no atmosphere in space. This means that there is no weather; no cool breeze, no torrential rainfall and definitely no snow...but there are clouds. Nebulae are clouds of gas ...
- 10:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Nublado con posibilidad de nacimiento de estrellas No hay atmósfera en el espacio. Esto significa que no hay tiempo meteorológico: no hay brisa fresca, ni lluvia torrencial y, definitivamente, no hay nieve... pero hay nubes. Las nebulosas ...
- 09:26 UTC ESA Space Science Mars images Recent Mars Express images of ancient landslides and lava flows at Olympus Mons
- 09:00 UTC ESA Top News Landslides and lava flows at Olympus Mons on Mars Giant landslides, lava flows and tectonic forces are behind this dynamic scene captured recently by ESA’s Mars Express of a region scarred by the Solar System’s largest volcano, Olympus Mons.
- 08:36 UTC ESA Top News Vega launch Join us for the launch of Vega VV02 with Proba-V early on the morning of 4 May. Streaming starts at 3.45 CEST (01:45 GMT)
- 08:00 UTC IAU Press Releases IAU and UNESCO Sign New Agreement The International Astronomical Union (IAU) and UNESCO have renewed their Memorandum of Understanding at UNESCO’s Headquarters. The agreement has been concluded in the framework of the thematic initiative Astronomy and ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Astrophysicist Elected to National Academy of Scienc... NASA astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou, a senior scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has been selected for membership in the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Kouveliotou Elected to National Academy of Sciences NASA astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou, a scientist at the Marshall Center has been selected for membership in the National Academy of Sciences.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA and Ham Radio Operators Piece Together the PhoneSat ... For about one week, engineers at NASA Ames and ham radio operators worldwide reconstructed an image of Earth.
- 00:16 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Mars Rover Social Media, JPL Website Win Webby Awards NASA's Curiosity Mars rover social media campaign and the agency's Solar System Exploration website win Webby Awards, the leading honor for the best of the Internet.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Ready for liftoff: Vega is authorized for its May 3 fligh... The second Vega mission from French Guiana has been given its "green light" for liftoff tomorrow night, following completion of the launch readiness review earlier today at the Spaceport.
1 May 2013
- 23:45 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... First of Four Sounding Rockets Launched from the Marshall... A NASA sounding rocket supporting a study of ionosphere and its impact on radio transmissions was launched at 3:38 a.m. EDT, May 1 from Roi-Namur, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
- 23:40 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Send Names and Messages to Mars NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian ...
- 23:38 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Rover Prototype Set To Explore Greenland NASA will test a new robotic explorer, dubbed GROVER, in Greenland from early May to early June 2013.
- 21:58 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's LAUNCH Program Recognized for Government Innovatio... A NASA program supporting innovative approaches to sustainability challenges has received an Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.