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7 May 2021
- 13:00 UTC astrobites #BlackInAstro Experiences: Dr. Tana Joseph This interview is part of our ongoing #BlackInAstro series. For our cornerstone post, see here. “You don’t expect a Black South African woman born during apartheid to have a very ...
- 12:32 UTC Space News Op-ed | Big Data gaining ground with Earth Observation op... Big Data is boosting Earth Observation demand, creating new applications and changing traditional business models. As a disruptive innovation, it keeps changing the way EO data is being used.Technologies are ...
- 12:07 UTC Universe Today What we’ve Learned About Venus From the Parker Solar Prob... The Parker Solar Probe has been getting in a lot of extracurricular activity lately. Originally designed to observe the Sun, the probe has been taking full advantage of its path ...
- 12:00 UTC Space News Sierra Nevada Corporation to advertise space spinoff on S... WASHINGTON — Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is taking a novel approach to publicizing the spinoff of its space business: buying ads linked to Elon Musk’s appearance on the television show ...
- 12:00 UTC EarthSky Blog History of Mars’ habitability preserved in ancient dunes A butte within the Stimson formation as seen by the Curiosity rover. These rock formations contain preserved remnants of ancient dune fields. Image via NASA/ Imperial College London.Scientists who study ...
- 11:36 UTC Universe Today One Full Year of Seismic Data Collected by Mars Insight I... The English vocabulary has some words that only make sense from an Earth-bound perspective. Earthquake is one of those. Even in some science fiction and fantasy books, where the action ...
- 10:53 UTC Space News Virgin Orbit schedules next LauncherOne mission for June WASHINGTON — Virgin Orbit has scheduled its next LauncherOne mission for June, carrying a mix of defense and commercial cubesats.Virgin Orbit said May 6 that it will launch six cubesats ...
- 10:07 UTC EarthSky Blog Mars might support microbial life, deep underground Jesse Tarnas of Brown University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory led a new study on the possibility of microbial life beneath the surface of Mars. Here he is at the ...
- 08:00 UTC New Scientist Enormous kites flown by robots could help power a Mars co...
- 07:22 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... Planet formation may start earlier than previously though...
- 07:15 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... Star formation is triggered by cloud–cloud collisions, st...
6 May 2021
- 23:27 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Austin: No Plans to Shoot Down Errant Chinese Rocket Stag... As global concerns rise about where China’s Long March-5B rocket stage might land, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said today DOD has no plans to shoot it down. Predicting when ...
- 22:51 UTC Space News Starliner test flight scheduled for July 30 WASHINGTON — NASA and Boeing have scheduled a second uncrewed test flight of the CST-100 Starliner commercial crew spacecraft for July 30.In separate statements, the agency and the company said ...
- 22:12 UTC Space News Northrop Grumman to supply navigation payloads for DARPA’... WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Northrop Grumman a $13.3 million contract to provide positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) payloads for the Blackjack program.Blackjack is a DARPA ...
- 21:43 UTC Space News Intelsat and SES on course for mammoth C-band payments Intelsat’s Q1 earnings down 50% year over year despite higher revenue due to Gogo acquisitionCOVID-19 drags down SES Q1 revenue; operator says video decline is slowingIntelsat and SES C-band legal ...
- 21:23 UTC The New York Times Long March 5B, a Chinese Rocket, Expected to Tumble Back ... The chances of it hitting a populated area are small, but not zero. That has raised questions about how the country’s space program designs its missions.
- 20:54 UTC astrobites “Cool metal gas search!” Thanks! It was automated. Title: Characterizing the abundance, properties, and kinematics of the cool circumgalactic medium of galaxies in absorption with SDSS DR16Authors: Abhĳeet Anand, Dylan Nelson, Guinevere KauffmannFirst Author’s Institution: Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, ...
- 20:41 UTC NASA: Solar System ... NASA Invites Public, Media to Watch Asteroid Mission Begi...
- 20:16 UTC NASA: Earth News NASA Awards Earth Science Data and Information System Con...
- 18:41 UTC The Habitable Zone ... Wavelength-dependent behavior of the HPF Fabry-Pérot The need for a good rulerHPF is a high-precision spectrograph; it is designed to make very precise measurements of the wavelengths of stellar spectral features, so that the subtle Doppler ...
- 16:37 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Space Force Lays Out Its Vision As a Digital Service Gen. Jay Raymond, Chief of Space Operations and head of the U.S. Space Force, routinely stresses that this new military service is vastly different than its predecessors. Created in the ...
- 15:29 UTC Space News Isar Aerospace wins three-way DLR microlauncher competiti... VALLETTA, Malta — German launch startup Isar Aerospace beat out Rocket Factory Augsburg and HyImpulse Technologies to win a DLR endorsement that clears the way for it to secure 11 ...
- 15:00 UTC SpaceFlight Insider Petition asks NASA to name Lunar Gateway after Michael Co... There is a Change.org petition to rename NASA’s Lunar Gateway after former Apollo astronaut Michael Collins, who died April 28, 2021, at age 90.
- 13:47 UTC Space News Space Force tells troops to focus on digital skills WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force on May 6 released a vision document that calls on its military and civilian workforce to embrace a “digital culture.”The Space Force’s “Vision for ...
- 12:00 UTC EarthSky Blog Uncontrollable China rocket hurtles towards re-entry April 29, 2021, liftoff of the Long March 5B rocket carrying the Tianhe core module for the Chinese Space Station. The core stage is due to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in ...
- 11:25 UTC Planet Pulse Monitoring Natural Disasters in the Philippines More than 20 typhoons take place every year in the Philippines, five of which are typically destructive, taking a toll on not only infrastructure but also human life. The country’s ...
- 11:12 UTC The New York Times Space Station Wine Bottle Could Sell for $1 Million
- 10:23 UTC EarthSky Blog Chinese rover Zhurong to attempt to land on Mars this mon... Artist’s concept of Chinese spacecraft on Mars. Image via Xinhua/ The Conversation.By Deep Bandivadekar, University of Strathclyde For the first few months of 2021, the Martian atmosphere was buzzing with ...
- 10:06 UTC EarthSky Blog NASA expects upcoming space telescope to find 100,000 new... Artist’s concept of an exoplanet transiting in front of its star. The upcoming Roman space telescope mission is expected to find at least 100,000 new such transiting worlds. Image via ...
- 08:01 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... Teamwork in space: Robots pave the way for crewed lunar m...
- 05:50 UTC The Guardian Eta Aquarids meteor shower 2021: Australia expecting to s...
- 02:36 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Bidding Is Open to Make the First Flight On New Shepard —... Blue Origin opened an auction today to buy the first space tourist seat on its New Shepard rocket for a 10-minute ride to space. The company, owned by Jeff Bezos, ...
- 00:46 UTC Universe Today SpaceX’s SN15 Starship Prototype Nails It! On the afternoon of May 5th, 2021, at 05:24 PM local time, SpaceX made its fifth attempt at a high-altitude test flight and soft landing with a Starship prototype. Given ...
- 00:35 UTC Planet Pulse Self-Guided Learning Opportunities For Mental Health and ... Through these self-guided learning opportunities, we’re hoping to inspire others to raise awareness and take part in sharing information, resources, and support for mental health and wellness month. Join us ...
- 00:18 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... SpaceX Starship Prototype Finally Nails It On the fifth try, SpaceX’s Starship prototype finally made it not only up, but down, during a test at Boca Chica, TX. After four landing failures, today’s flight with a ...
- 00:00 UTC SpaceFlight Insider SpaceX’s Starship SN15 lands successfully! Starship SN15 flies into the South Texas sky to perform what would become a completely-successful launch and landing. Credit: Nicholas D’Alessandro / Spaceflight InsiderSpaceX’s Starship SN15 landed safely after its ...
5 May 2021
- 23:17 UTC Space News Starship survives test flight A SpaceX Starship prototype successfully carried out a brief suborbital flight May 5 after four previous vehicles were destroyed during or shortly after landing.
- 22:08 UTC The New York Times Watch SpaceX Launch Starship, Its Mars and Moon Rocket Pr... SpaceX’s SN15 Starship prototype on the launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 13.
- 20:51 UTC NASA: Solar System ... Media Invited to Virtual Briefing as NASA’s Webb Prepares...
- 20:37 UTC The New York Times Bidding Opens for a Seat on Blue Origin’s First Passenger... The New Shepard Crew Capsule 2.0 after landing in West Texas during a test in 2017.
- 20:33 UTC The Planetary Socie... This Is What Legally Happens If An Uncontrolled Rocket Da...
- 19:15 UTC collectSPACE.com: S... Blue Origin sets date, auctions seat on first New Shepard...
- 18:41 UTC New Scientist Blue Origin is auctioning off a seat on its first crewed ...
- 18:30 UTC Space News Blue Origin to fly first people on New Shepard in July WASHINGTON — Blue Origin announced May 5 that it will fly people on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle for the first time July 20, and will auction off one of ...
- 18:28 UTC Space News KSAT rapidly expands KSATlite small satellite network SAN FRANCISCO — KSAT is rapidly installing antennas around the world to keep pace with the dramatic rise in small satellite activity.In 2021 alone, Norway-based KSAT is on track to ...
- 18:10 UTC EarthSky Blog Photos from 2021’s Eta Aquariid meteor shower View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Eliot Herman captured this photo of an Eta Aquariid meteor from Tucson, Arizona. He wrote that he captured it at: “…1:48 am on peak ...
- 17:12 UTC Space News Hughes and OneWeb get U.S. Air Force contract for Arctic ... TAMPA, Fla. — The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has contracted low Earth orbit broadband venture OneWeb to demo managed satcom services in strategic Arctic locations.Project prime contractor Hughes ...
- 17:03 UTC Space News U.S. Air Force to investigate aborted ICBM test flight WASHINGTON — An unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile test launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, experienced a ground abort during the terminal countdown, the Air Force Global Strike ...
- 16:00 UTC Irene W. Pennington... The Sky Tonight Update: Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower The Eta Aquarids is an above average shower, capable of producing up to 60 meteors per hour at its peak. Most of the activity is seen in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
- 14:49 UTC Space News Space Force to clear refurbished Falcon 9 booster for upc... WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force this month will complete a design review of a previously flown SpaceX Falcon 9 booster that launched a military GPS satellite to orbit last ...

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