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15 Aug 2018
- 20:37 UTC Astro Watch NASA Astronauts Stand Behind SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Spacecr... SpaceX has made strides in having their Crew Dragon spacecraft transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS). One of the crown jewels in the NewSpace firm’s efforts ...
- 20:35 UTC SpaceFlight Insider Ultrahot Jupiters destroy water These simulated views of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b show what the planet might look like to the human eye from five different vantage points, illuminated to different degrees by its ...
- 20:15 UTC Air & Space Magazin... Russia Just Selected a New Group of Cosmonauts. What For?
- 19:55 UTC Parabolic Arc Indian Prime Minister Says Country Will Launch Astronauts... Escape tower fires for crew vehicle. (Credit: ISRO)Speaking 0n the 72nd anniversary of Indian independence, Prime Minister Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the nation would launch astronauts into space within ...
- 19:14 UTC Earth Observatory: ... Just Sit Right Back and You’ll Hear a Tale, a Tale of a P... A mixed phytoplankton community. Credit: University of Rhode Island/Stephanie AndersonI am Dave Siegel, a professor of marine science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I have been working for ...
- 19:14 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Just Sit Right Back and You’ll Hear a Tale, a Tale of a P... Read More...
- 19:00 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... EXCAVATION BEGINS ON GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPE SITE IN CHI... GMTO Corporation announced on Aug. 14 the start of hard rock excavation for the Giant Magellan Telescope’s massive concrete pier and the foundations for the telescope’s enclosure on its site ...
- 19:00 UTC Women in Astronomy Cross-post: The book that fights sexism with science Angela SainiPhoto: Gareth Phillips for the Observer, from the GuardianA recent article on the Guardian by Donna Ferguson discusses the impact a recent book, Inferior: The True Power of Women ...
- 17:39 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... The Northwest is Running Hot and Dry In August 2018, temperature records fell in parts of the northwestern United States. Read More...
- 17:35 UTC KIPAC Tea Talks TBD
- 17:25 UTC KIPAC Tea Talks TBD
- 17:00 UTC The Guardian Hottest of 'ultra-hot' planets is so hot its air contains...
- 17:00 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Arecibo Observatory to Get $5.8 Million Upgrade to Expand... The National Science Foundation has awarded a team of scientists $5.8 million to design and mount a supersensitive antenna at the focal point of the Arecibo Observatory’s 1,000-foot-diameter dish.
- 17:00 UTC io9 Space Astronomers Directly Detect Iron and Titanium on an Exopl... Scientists directly observed the signal of iron and titanium atoms in the atmosphere of an exoplanet 600 light-years from Earth, a new paper reports. KELT-9b is a planet entirely alien ...
- 16:50 UTC Centauri Dreams Omega Centauri: Improbable Venue for Life? Although it appears in the same constellation as seen from Earth (Centaurus), Omega Centauri has nothing to do with the Alpha Centauri stars that so interest interstellar flight theorists. The ...
- 16:33 UTC SPACE.com Could SpaceX and Boeing Spaceships Open a New Era for Spa...
- 16:32 UTC The Mars Society STILL TIME to Register for the 2018 Mars Society Conventi... STILL TIME to Register for the 2018 Mars Society ConventionWith a little more than one week until the beginning of the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, scheduled for August ...
- 16:23 UTC Rocketeers Orbital Micro Systems to Provide Payload for UK Launch
- 16:20 UTC NASA Space Station ... Cosmonauts Working Outside Station for Russian Spacewalk Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev are conducting the 7th spacewalk of the year at the International Space Station today.Expedition 56 Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev of ...
- 16:15 UTC SPACE.com 'Ask a Spaceman' Series Launches with Trip to Pluto
- 16:03 UTC Rocketeers Horizontal space launch from Glasgow Prestwick Spaceport ...
- 16:00 UTC AAS Nova Evaporation of Low-Mass Planet Atmospheres: Multidimensio... Lile Wang and Fei Dai 2018 ApJ 860 175Hydrodynamic simulations suggest that extreme UV photoionization from a host star is the most important mechanism for launching photoevaporative winds that can ...
- 15:48 UTC Rocketeers Aston Martin Volante Vision Concept: VTOL electric aircra...
- 15:38 UTC Spaceflight Now Russian cosmonauts prep for spacewalk Clad in pressurized spacesuits, Russian cosmonauts plan to head outside the International Space Station on Wednesday to hand-release four tiny CubeSats and install hardware for a German experiment to track ...
- 15:16 UTC NASA Space Station ... Watch Russian Spacewalk Broadcast Live on NASA TV Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev works outside the International Space Station during a 5-hour, 11-minute spacewalk that took place Aug. 18, 2014, when he was an Expedition 40 Flight Engineer.Expedition 56 ...
- 15:16 UTC SPACE.com On Ultrahot Exoplanets, Water Can Form at Night and Die b...
- 14:57 UTC Space-For-All at Ho... Video: Japan’s BIRDS project deploys satellites from ISS ...
- 14:54 UTC New Scientist Doctors will grow human tissue on the International Space... Liver tissue and muscle fibre are going to be grown on the ISS, to see if we can one day grow human organs in space
- 14:42 UTC Coalition for Deep ... Today’s Deep Space Extra In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s investments in private sector space technologies may help to open a low Earth orbit to new commercial space activities, lower the cost of deep ...
- 14:12 UTC astrobites We cannot see stars form but we can hear black holes coll... Title: Measuring the star formation rate with gravitational waves from binary black holesAuthors: Salvatore Vitale & Will M. FarrFirst Author’s Institution: LIGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA; Kavli Institute ...
- 14:01 UTC Starts With a Bang! What Was It Like When We First Made Protons And Neutrons? The story of our cosmic history is one of an expanding and cooling Universe. As we progressed from a hot, dense, uniform state to a cold, sparse, clumpy one, a ...
- 13:24 UTC SDO is GO Station Keeping Maneuver #17 is Today SDO will perform Station Keeping (or Delta-V) Maneuver #17 today between 2200-2250 UTC (6:00-6:50 p.m. ET). This maneuver is used to keep SDO inside its box in the geosynchronous belt. ...
- 13:00 UTC OrbitalHub Horizons Time-lapse Horizons mission time-lapse – Australia and New Zealand.Credits Video: ESA
- 13:00 UTC Space-For-All at Ho... Carnival of Space #574 – Urban Astronomer
- 12:04 UTC Astronaut.com SpaceX Welcomes Press To See The Crew Dragon Simulator an... According to Teslarati website, SpaceX has just given access to the press to see the Crew Dragon simulator and the spacesuit especially created for the mission. The photos taken show ...
- 11:46 UTC SPACE.com Omega Centauri Is a Terrible Place to Look for Habitable ...
- 11:30 UTC SPACE.com You Can Watch Two Cosmonauts Walk in Space Today: Here's ...
- 11:27 UTC SPACE.com This 'Star Trek'-Inspired Space Station Experiment Helps ...
- 11:26 UTC Science 2.0 Peering Into The Void: Cosmic Web Reveals This Part Of Th...
- 11:23 UTC SPACE.com Step Inside SpaceX's New Crew Dragon Spaceship (Photos)
- 11:00 UTC The Planetary Socie... Here are some recent postcards from Jupiter What's new out at Jupiter? We haven't looked in on NASA’s Juno spacecraft since (checks blog archive) May. Juno completed its 14th close flyby of Jupiter on July 15, and ...
- 10:41 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... Today’s Tidbits: August 14, 2018 Here are SpacePolicyOnline.com’s tidbits for August 14, 2018: U.S. worries about “abnormal behavior” of Russian satellite; CNBC reports on possible SpaceX connection in Tesla buyout proposal. Be sure to check ...
- 10:16 UTC Spaceflight Now Video replay: Parker Solar Probe launches atop Delta 4 He... Watch a video replay of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe lifting off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 37 atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy on August ...
- 10:00 UTC SpaceFlight Insider High-speed cameras show MOMO-2 launch failure in unpreced... MOMO-2 rocket crashes to the ground shortly after its launch on Saturday, June 30. Photo Credit: Interstellar Technologies Inc.Japanese startup Interstellar Technologies Inc. (IST) has revealed a high-definition video of ...
- 10:00 UTC Astronomy.com News Can humans live in space without going crazy?
- 10:00 UTC Astronomy.com News Multiple “mini-moons” could be orbiting Earth
- 10:00 UTC Astronomy.com News In neutron stars, minority rules
- 10:00 UTC Astronomy.com News Magnetic fields may be to blame for Jupiter’s skin-deep s...
- 09:48 UTC All About Space Meteorite bombardment likely to have created the Earth’s ... In the early age of the Solar System, impacts with meteors were more common than modern years. Image credit: CC0 Public DomainScientists have found that 4.02 billion year old silica-rich ...
- 09:40 UTC Parabolic Arc Landing on Ryugu – A Surface with a View of Boulders The boulder-strewn surface of asteroid Ryugu. (Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST.)COLOGNE, Germany (DLR PR) ...

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