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17 Oct 2019
- 05:50 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2019-10-16 SA: MarissaSO: VeronicaOthers: Jessymol (in training), Enrico, Waanie, Keith, Lisa, Hannah ----------------------------------------------------------------------Summary---------------------------------------------------------------------- Night cut short by thick clouds in the early morning. Science data taken for:2018-1-MLT-005 P2 HRS (HRS observations ...
- 05:28 UTC The Mars Society Final Convention Schedule posted online The final convention schedule is now available online. For more details about the 2019 International Mars Society Convention, including registration for the four-day conference (October 17-20) and evening banquet, visit ...
- 05:06 UTC NASA Watch Hearing: NASA's Proposal to Advance the Next Moon Landing... Chairman Serrano Statement at Hearing on NASA's Moon Landing Proposal "Not even NASA's own leadership has enough confidence in the success and safety of advancing this timeline. NASA Acting Associate ...
- 04:57 UTC NASA Watch Planetary Protection Review Report Coming Out On Friday NASA to Discuss Planetary Protection Review's Findings and Recommendations "NASA will host a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 18, to discuss recommendations presented by the Planetary Protection ...
- 04:32 UTC Spaceflight Now Rocket Lab delivers on dedicated launch for Astro Digital In this view from the Electron rocket’s second stage, Rocket Lab’s Curie kick stage with the Palisade satellite is seen backdropped by the Earth around 10 minutes after liftoff. Credit: ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Warmer, Drier Climate Could Transform Alaskan Forests Climate change could lead to a net loss of plant life in some regions, and also could change the ratio of species that grow in them. Read More...
- 03:56 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Serrano Worried About Who Will Pay for Accelerating Moon ... The chairman of a key House appropriations subcommittee today reiterated his doubts about the need for and feasibility of getting astronauts back on the Moon by 2024. To him, the ...
- 01:42 UTC SPACE.com Rocket Lab Launches Highest Mission Yet to Put Astro Digi...
- 01:25 UTC io9 Space Elon Musk Smoking Joe Rogan's Weed Somehow Ended Up Costi...
- 00:24 UTC Parabolic Arc Russians Go 12 Months Without Launch Failure A Proton takes a nose dive at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. (Credit: Tsenki TV) It’s been a long road, getting from there to here…. by Douglas MessierManaging Editor The Russian space ...
16 Oct 2019
- 23:53 UTC Spaceflight Now Egyptian satellite, ESA science probe share plane ride to... These photos show the loading of Egypt’s TIBA 1 communications satellite (left) and the European Space Agency’s CHEOPS scientific satellite (right) on an Antonov An-124 cargo plane at Toulouse-Blagnac airport ...
- 22:24 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Liquifying a rocky exoplanet A hot, molten Earth would be around 5% larger than its solid counterpart. This is the result of a study led by researchers at the University of Bern. The difference ...
- 22:12 UTC NPR NASA's First All-Female Spacewalk Set For Friday Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will replace a faulty power regulator on the International Space Station. Only 15 women have participated in spacewalks, and all were accompanied by men. ...
- 22:00 UTC Space News Senate confirms Barbara Barrett to be Air Force secretary WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Barbara Barrett to be the 25th Secretary of the Air Force by a margin of 85 to 7.The vote on Oct. 16 makes Barrett the ...
- 21:57 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Senate Confirms Barbara Barrett as Secretary of the Air F... Today the Senate confirmed Barbara Barrett to be the new Secretary of the Air Force, succeeding Heather Wilson who resigned in May. President Trump tweeted his intention to nominate her ...
- 21:32 UTC SPACE.com Virgin Galactic May Raise the Ticket Price for SpaceShipT...
- 21:30 UTC Astronomy Now Hubble observes interstellar visitor This Hubble image, taken on 12 October 2019, is the sharpest view to date of the comet. Hubble reveals a central concentration of dust around the nucleus (which is too ...
- 21:16 UTC Universe Today SpaceX Files a Request to Launch Another 30,000 Satellite...
- 21:07 UTC Universe Today Some Quasars Shine With the Light of Over a Trillion Star...
- 21:00 UTC Space News OQ Technology hoping to jump ahead in IoT race through Go... WASHINGTON — A startup planning a constellation of small satellites to link Internet of Things devices says a recent test using another operator’s spacecraft will help it compete with more ...
- 20:48 UTC Astro Watch Study Suggests Ice on Lunar South Pole May Have More than... The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon’s south pole has helped to renew interest in exploring the lunar surface, but no one is sure exactly when ...
- 20:44 UTC Spaceflight Now Hubble observes interstellar visitor This Hubble image, taken on Oct. 12, 2019, is the sharpest view to date of the comet. Hubble reveals a central concentration of dust around the nucleus (which is too ...
- 20:32 UTC Space News Key House appropriator remains skeptical about Artemis WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA said he remains unconvinced of the need to accelerate NASA’s plans to return humans to the moon because ...
- 20:20 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Doug Loverro Named New Head of NASA’s Human Spaceflight P... Doug Loverro, well known for his national security space policy credentials, will become the new head of NASA’s human spaceflight program. He succeeds Bill Gerstenmaier who was dismissed from that ...
- 20:19 UTC Geekwire Hubble gets snapshot of interstellar comet Pictures captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show the second known interstellar object, 2I/Borisov, in all its cometary glory.The images were taken by the telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 on ...
- 20:10 UTC Space News Dankberg teases ViaSat-4 specs, still mulling MEO constel... MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Viasat says that co-building its ViaSat-3 satellites with Boeing has given the company experience it can leverage to multiply the capacity achievable with a next-generation ViaSat-4 ...
- 19:58 UTC Rocketeers MANTIS: New UK-led satellite will identify natural resour...
- 19:51 UTC Rocketeers Project Oberon: UK eyes cluster of military radar satelli...
- 19:47 UTC SPACE.com Lawmakers Grill NASA Chief on Moon-by-2024 Budget, Schedu...
- 19:47 UTC Rocketeers Skyrora: Scotland can be at cutting edge of new Space Age
- 19:43 UTC SPACE.com How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
- 19:39 UTC Rocketeers Hybrid Air Vehicles and Vertex Aerospace sign MOU on join...
- 19:36 UTC SPACE.com Hubble Space Telescope Spots Interstellar Comet Borisov (...
- 19:34 UTC Centauri Dreams Remembering Alexei Leonov (1934-2019) The Russian space agency Roscosmos, as most of you know, has announced the death of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who died last Friday at Moscow’s Burdenko Hospital following a long illness. ...
- 19:34 UTC Rocketeers Time for Launch: Helping Startups Transform the Public Se...
- 19:30 UTC Spaceflight Now NASA names new chief of human space operations STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSIONDoug Loverro speaks at the 2014 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight. Credit: ISPCSDouglas Loverro, a veteran manager with broad experience ...
- 19:30 UTC Space News SpaceX sees U.S. Army as possible customer for Starlink a... WASHINGTON — SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell appeared on a panel Wednesday alongside U.S. Army leaders who talked about their efforts to modernize the force and bring ...
- 19:23 UTC Forbes articles by ... How Small Is Too Small For A Habitable World? Small planets might be more habitable than larger ones, but how small is too small?
- 19:00 UTC New Scientist Strange sand dunes on Titan could be made by cosmic rays ... Titan is the only other place in the solar system with liquid oceans on its surface, but it also has huge swathes of desert covered in sand dunes. The material ...
- 19:00 UTC Sky and Telescope Interstellar Comet Borisov “Indistinguishable” from Solar...
- 18:47 UTC Spaceflight Now Live coverage: Rocket Lab set for fifth Electron launch o... Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand carrying the Palisade microsatellite into orbit for ...
- 18:47 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com Rocket Lab set to launch Electron Flight 9 as work on new... On Thursday, Rocket Lab will attempt to launch its workhorse Electron rocket on its ninth total mission since its debut in 2017, and its fifth mission in 2019 – the ...
- 18:27 UTC NASA Space Station ... Koch, Meir Spacewalk Moves to Friday as Crew Adjusts Sche... NASA astronauts Jessica Meir (left) and Christina Koch are inside the Quest airlock preparing the U.S. spacesuits and tools they will use on their first spacewalk together.NASA is targeting a ...
- 18:25 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... Tracing interstellar dust back to the solar system's form...
- 18:19 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... Gas 'waterfalls' reveal infant planets around young star
- 18:11 UTC SPACE.com SpaceX's Starlink Constellation Could Swell by 30,000 Mor...
- 18:04 UTC EarthSky Blog What’s the source of the ice at the moon’s south pole? Deep and shadowed Shackleton Crater, near the moon’s south pole, is one location where deposits of water ice have been found. This ice is of interest to scientists and potentially ...
- 18:01 UTC Universe Today Weekly Space Hangout: October 16, 2019 – Jeffrey Kargel T...
- 17:51 UTC TheSpaceWriter's Ra... 2I/Borisov: Another Interstellar Visitor Flashes By Space isn’t really so empty as we might think. There are planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and rings. And dust. Beyond our local neighborhood, there’s also gas, lots of it. And, ...
- 17:39 UTC Parabolic Arc Boeing Starliner Commercial Crew Delay: ~3 Years Boeing’s first crewed Starliner finished initial production at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. and is readied for its cross-country trip. (Credit: Boeing) by Douglas MessierManaging Editor On March 26, Vice President ...

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