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8 Jul 2020
- 06:03 UTC Parabolic Arc SpaceX’s 10th Starlink Launch Scheduled for Wednesday Falcon 9 payload shroud. (Credit: SpaceX) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (SpaceX PR) — SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, July 8 at 11:59 a.m. EDT, 15:59 UTC, for launch of its tenth ...
- 05:50 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2020-07-07 SA: RosalindSO: VeronicaOthers: Lee in training ------------------------------------------------------------------------Summary------------------------------------------------------------------------ A relatively smooth, clear and bright night of observing, with poor seeing towards the end. Science data taken for:2019-1-MLT-003 P1 HRS (x2) (A ...
- 04:56 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 07/08/2020 – Ephemeris – Let’s look at the naked-eye plan... This is Bob Moler with Ephemeris for Wednesday, July 8th. Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 23 minutes, setting at 9:29, and it will rise tomorrow ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Fueled by the Nile Irrigation from Lake Nasser, one of the world’s largest man-made lakes, has increased the amount of arable land and crop production in Egypt. Read More...
- 03:56 UTC DSFP's Spaceflight ... Chronology: Apollo-X, Apollo Extension System, and Apollo... Repurposing Apollo: the NASA image above portrays a modified Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) spacecraft and an Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) derived from the Lunar Module (LM) lander. NASA's ...
- 03:53 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA’s InSight Flexes Its Arm While Its ‘Mole’ Hits Pause The movement of sand grains in the scoop on the end of NASA InSight’s robotic arm suggests that the spacecraft’s self-hammering “mole,” which is in the soil beneath the scoop, ...
- 03:43 UTC Universe Today A Tabletop-sized Experiment Could Help in the Search for ...
- 03:27 UTC Spaceflight Now Live coverage: SpaceX poised for midday launch from Kenne... Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s tenth batch ...
- 00:56 UTC Astroblog Sky This Week - Thursday July 9 to Thursday July 16 The Last Quarter Moon is Monday, July 13. Four bright planets are visible in the morning skies. Venus is in the head of Taurus the Bull and is close to ...
- 00:32 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com NASA and Boeing Complete Starliner Orbital Flight Test In... A joint NASA and Boeing team has completed their “high visibility close call” review into anomalies experienced during the Orbital Flight Test (OFT) mission. Boeing is now in the process ...
- 00:31 UTC Universe Today Electron Rocket’s 13th Launch Failed, Destroying its Sate...
7 Jul 2020
- 23:43 UTC Spaceflight Now SpaceX’s next batch of Starlink satellites back on the la... A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands vertical Tuesday on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Spaceflight NowSpaceX raised a Falcon 9 rocket vertical Tuesday on pad 39A at ...
- 23:24 UTC What's Up? The Spac... NASA ON FINDINGS REGARDING BOEING CST-100 ORBITAL FLIGHT ... Hey Space Placers!ARTIST RENDERING OF CST-100 IN ORBITCREDIT: BOEINGHere is today's (7/7/20) news release from NASA regarding its finding on Boeing's Orbital Test Flight.Boeing is paying for a future second ...
- 22:30 UTC The New York Times Scrutinizing SpaceX, NASA Overlooked Some Boeing Software... Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft shortly after it landed in White Sands, N.M., in December.
- 22:24 UTC Universe Today The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud. Normally this Looks...
- 22:23 UTC TheSpaceWriter's Ra... teaching a master about planetary exploration I’ve often wondered what it would be like for one of the astronomers of the past to come alive today. What would it be like for them to see what ...
- 22:13 UTC Space-For-All at Ho... Space transport roundup – July.7.2020
- 22:03 UTC Space News NASA completes reviews of Boeing commercial crew test fli... WASHINGTON — NASA announced July 7 that it has completed two major reviews that stemmed from Boeing’s flawed commercial crew test flight last December as the agency and company prepare ...
- 21:47 UTC Parabolic Arc Chair Grijalva, Ranking Member Cantwell Urge Trump Admini... President Donald Trump redraws Hurricane Dorian’s path after the fact. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Raul Grijalva/Maria Canwell PR) – Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Senate Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), who ...
- 21:45 UTC Spaceflight Now Three U.S.-built satellites in French Guiana for Ariane 5... Northrop Grumman’s second Mission Extension Vehicle and Intelsat’s Galaxy 30 communications satellite were shipped from Dulles, Virginia, to French Guiana, in late June. Credit: Northrop GrummanThe next flight of Europe’s ...
- 21:22 UTC AMSAT-UK DIY Weather Satellite Ground Station Weather Satellite ReceptionSasha M6IOR and Sophie M6NYX have made available a Guide for the reception of NOAA satellite images using software defined radio on Windows or MacOS.The guide suggests a ...
- 21:16 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabita... Modelling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in.
- 21:13 UTC The Belt of Venus Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) - 7 July 2020 C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) - 7 July 2020, 3:44AM MST / 1044UTClick for larger version. There were no nearby clouds to contend with this morning and that permitted the view I ...
- 20:52 UTC Universe Today The Moon Might Be More Metal-Rich Than We Thought
- 20:32 UTC SpaceFlight Insider Commercial spaceflight advocate outlines revolution in th... Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus is grabbed by the ISS Canadarm2 robotic arm. SpaceX’s Dragon is visible behind the arm, attached to the ISS Unity module. Photo Credit: NASA Commercial Space Image ...
- 20:02 UTC NASA Watch Lockheed Martin's Bad Orion Marketing Hype Do some research before you tweet @LockheedMartin - The @SpaceX Dragon 2 PICA-X heat shield is designed to withstand Earth re-entry velocities from the Moon and Mars. https://t.co/ONTfngZlQr— NASA Watch ...
- 20:00 UTC Schooled By Science Interesting Facts About Jupiter You Need to Know
- 19:56 UTC Lowell Observatory A Smell of Metallic Vapors The Finns have a word for it. Sisu.It means tenacity. A stoic determination to succeed in the face of adversity. The willpower to keep going when others would quit.In Finland, ...
- 19:42 UTC MilkyWay@home New Runs for MilkyWay@home Nbody Simulations (07/07/2020)
- 19:20 UTC Astro Bob Get Out Of Bed And See Comet NEOWISE, You’ll Be Happy You... Comet NEOWISE was a spectacular sight this morning (July 7) at dawn low in the northeastern sky. I took this photo with a 200mm telephoto lens. Although the comet appeared ...
- 19:00 UTC Women in Astronomy Meet Central American-Caribbean Astronomy Bridge Program ... The Central American - Caribbean bridge in astrophysics is a program created to mentor and train the next generation of students in astrophysics from that region. This was created because ...
- 18:45 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA and Boeing Complete Orbital Flight Test Reviews Starliner OFT-1 capsule after landing at White Sands Missile Range. (Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (NASA PR) — NASA and Boeing have completed major reviews of the company’s ...
- 18:44 UTC NASA Commercial Cre... NASA and Boeing Complete Orbital Flight Test Reviews An artist’s illustration of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in orbit. Photo credit: NASANASA and Boeing have completed reviews of the company’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) that flew in December ...
- 18:42 UTC Sky and Telescope Two Bright Supernovae Light Up Nearby Galaxies
- 18:30 UTC The Mars Society “Artemis 8” Using Dragon By Dr. Robert Zubrin, The Space Review, July 6, 2020 The following memo was sent by the author to NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine and Scott Pace, executive secretary of the ...
- 18:24 UTC Universe Today Amateur Astronomers Find a Brand New Storm on Jupiter
- 18:17 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... No 12 Percent Increase for NASA As House Appropriators Ke... NASA’s request for a 12 percent increase in FY2021 to pay for getting people back on the Moon by 2024 was rejected by the House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science subcommittee today. The ...
- 18:05 UTC SciTech Daily NASA Skywatching Tips for July 2020: Jupiter, Saturn, Ven...
- 17:39 UTC Astronomy Now Comet 2020 F3 (NEOWISE): a naked-eye comet visible in the... Comet 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is looking great in the pre-dawn sky at the moment, shining at around magnitude +1 and sporting nice tail of around a degree in length. Gerald ...
- 17:33 UTC NASA Space Station ... New Satellites Set for Deployment, Cargo Craft Ready for ... (From left) Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy and Flight Engineer Bob Behnken are pictured inside the Bigelow Expandable Aerospace Module (BEAM).The Expedition 63 crew readied a pair of tiny satellites ...
- 16:58 UTC Universe Today Betelgeuse Probably Dimmed Because of Enormous Starspots
- 16:38 UTC Many Worlds Sample Return in the Time of Coronavirus For space scientists of all stripes, few goals are as crucial as bringing pieces of Mars, of asteroids, of other planets and moons back to Earth for the kind of ...
- 16:23 UTC Symmetry Making science more equitable, starting with 101
- 16:04 UTC Space News Space Force proposes headquarters staff led by generals a... WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force Pentagon headquarters will have a leaner staff structure than traditional military service headquarters and some senior staff posts will be assigned to civilians, according ...
- 16:00 UTC AAS Nova Sunquakes of Solar Cycle 24 Ivan N. Sharykin and Alexander G. Kosovichev 2020 ApJ 895 76Analysis of helioseismic events — sunquakes — in Solar Cycle 24 shows that many strong sunquakes were produced by solar ...
- 16:00 UTC AAS Nova Spectral Line Survey Reveals New Molecules in Two Protopl... Editor’s note: Astrobites is a graduate-student-run organization that digests astrophysical literature for undergraduate students. As part of the partnership between the AAS and astrobites, we occasionally repost astrobites content here ...
- 15:57 UTC Centauri Dreams KELT-9b: ‘Gravity Darkening’ and an Asymmetric Light Curv... Perhaps the hottest planet ever discovered spotlights yet another way to interpret light curves produced by transiting worlds. KELT-9b comes out of data gathered by the KELT transit survey, the ...
- 15:56 UTC Spaceflight Now Behnken describes spacewalk views of Crew Dragon as “just... In this image taken July 1, a spacewalking astronaut snapped a view of the Crew Dragon spacecraft (at right) docked with the International Space Station. Japan’s HTV cargo ship, at ...
- 15:53 UTC NASA Watch Media Update On Starliner's Flawed Debut NASA Provides Update on Commercial Crew Program, Close Call Review of Boeing's Orbital Flight Test "NASA will host a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 7, to discuss ...
- 15:48 UTC Space News House bill offers flat funding for NASA WASHINGTON — A House appropriations bill released July 7 rejected the administration’s proposed major budget increase for NASA, instead offering the agency a flat budget for 2021 that takes particular ...

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