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18 Apr 2014
- 20:26 UTC AMSAT-UK Successful launch of KickSat carrying 104 Sprite satellit... Five CubeSats including KicksSat which carries 104 Sprite satellites on 437 MHz were successfully launched on the SpaceX CRS-3 mission on Friday, April 18 at 19:25:22 UT. On the KickSat ...
- 20:17 UTC AmericaSpace Fiery SpaceX Dragon Roars Toward Space Station SpaceX’s Falcon 9 v1.1 carries its first Dragon cargo craft into orbit on Friday, 18 April. Photo Credit: John Studwell Following Monday’s disappointing scrub of the third Commercial Resupply Services ...
- 20:15 UTC Above the Clouds A Better Mars?! Now that Spring has sprung, which is up for debate. Our temps here in Vermont have been up and down this week. On Monday, we had sunny skies,and high temps ...
- 20:13 UTC Parabolic Arc SpaceX Launches Dragon to Space Station The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon spacecraft loaded with nearly 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiment hardware for the International Space Station’s Expedition 39 crew, lifted off at ...
- 20:09 UTC Eagle's Eye on the ... SpaceX & Dragon pass over the UK just after launch. I watched the launch of the SpaceX and Dragon Rocket from Cape Canaveral online. 20 minutes later, I was standing out in the garden. They had already traversed across the ...
- 19:46 UTC SPACE.com Re-Usable Rocket? SpaceX Prototype Launches To Space Stat... The Falcon 9 carrying Dragon was lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on April 18th, 2014. Its first stage has retractable legs attached and an ...
- 19:38 UTC SPACE.com SpaceX Launches Robotic Cargo Mission to Space Station SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft blasted off at 3:25 p.m. EDT today from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, riding into space atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket. Dragon is scheduled ...
- 19:31 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... New posts in the Notes from the Field blog - An Appreciat... We have spent the last few weeks discussing the differences between inherent and apparent optical properties in the ocean and how we measure them. Now let’s take a moment to ...
- 19:31 UTC Earth Observatory: ... An Appreciation for Satellite True Color Imagery We have spent the last few weeks discussing the differences between inherent and apparent optical properties in the ocean and how we measure them. Now let’s take a moment to ...
- 19:19 UTC PocketQube Shop Blo... PocketQube Workshop in Pictures Yesterday in Mountain View (17th April 2014) the 1st PocketQube Workshop was held at NASA Ames. Over 40 delegates attended the one-day event which covered the rapid growth of the ...
- 19:10 UTC Space Fellowship SpaceX Dragon Heads to Space; Station Astronauts Prep for... The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon spacecraft loaded with nearly 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiment hardware for the International Space Station’s Expedition 39 crew, lifted off at ...
- 19:07 UTC Astro Watch Exoplanets Soon to Gleam in the Eye of NESSI The New Mexico Exoplanet Spectroscopic Survey Instrument (NESSI) will soon get its first "taste" of exoplanets, helping astronomers decipher their chemical composition. Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars beyond our ...
- 19:00 UTC Sydney Observatory Daily cosmobite: amateur astronomers meet in Melbourne This Easter weekend amateur astronomers from all over Australia will gather in Melbourne at the 26th National Australian Convention of Amateur Astronomers. Topics to be discussed include collaboration with professional ...
- 19:00 UTC One Universe at a T... The Four Elements Over the past two centuries, we have gained a much better understanding of the atomic elements and how they have formed. One of the things we have learned is that ...
- 18:53 UTC Universe Today Weekly Space Hangout – April 18, 2014 Host: Fraser Cain Guests: Casey Dreier, Brian Koberlein, Jason Major, Sondy Springmann, David Dickinson (...)Read the rest of Weekly Space Hangout – April 18, 2014 (91 words) © susie for ...
- 18:39 UTC Malc's Astro Page Mars This must have been the 4th Tuesday in a row for me to get over to the Observatory at Great Ellingham. A great opportunity was taken with good seeing I ...
- 18:27 UTC Astro Watch First Discovery of Double Star That Brightens During clip... For the first time, astronomers have seen a double star brighten rather than fade when one star passes in front of its companion. Predicted decades ago, the phenomenon arises from ...
- 18:26 UTC SPACE.com Easter Skies Feature Big Dipper and Southern Cross As soon as darkness falls this Easter weekend, step outside and look skyward. What is the most prominent and easiest star pattern to recognize? If you live in the Northern ...
- 18:23 UTC Sky and Telescope Opportunity Rover Gets a Cleaning The Mars rover Opportunity has been cleaned of heavy dust coating its solar panels, thanks to some strong winds blowing over the rim of Endeavour Crater.A self-portrait of NASA's Mars ...
- 18:16 UTC Ask an Astronomer Why Can We See Stars That Are Billions of Light Years Awa... Question: I can’t get seem to find a thoughtful yet scientific answer to this question, I was hoping you could help. I hope this doesn’t sound dumb, I don’t mean ...
- 18:03 UTC JP Aerospace Blog A Thousand Experiment Flying in September One thousand, sixteen students have signed up for September 27th PongSat mission. We are getting an amazing group of space explorers together. There are girl scout troops, university aerospace classes, ...
- 17:59 UTC SPACE.com Vitamins from Space! B3 Found in Meteorites An essential nutrient for life on Earth also cooks up in space, a new study finds.
- 17:49 UTC SPACE.com Space History Photo: Standing on the Edge of the Bay An astronaut evaluates the Portable Foot Restraint in space.
- 17:43 UTC Universe Today NASA’s Highly Productive LADEE Dust Explorer Probe Crashe... NASA’s LADEE lunar orbiting dust and atmosphere explorer probe has bitten the dust and crashed into the Moon’s surface exactly as planned following a fabulously successful and groundbreaking science mission ...
- 17:41 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Kamikaze LADEE Moon Mission Ends With a Splat Out of fuel and flying fast, NASA’s LADEE spacecraft crashed into the moon early Friday, three days shy of its expected mission end. Continue reading →
- 17:30 UTC All About Space What’s the Waterfall Nebula’s secret? It's a magnificent structure but what is it hiding from astronomers? In the Great Orion Molecular Cloud Complex 1,500 light years away, can be found one of the most bizarre ...
- 17:20 UTC Space Fellowship Sun Emits a Mid-level Solar Flare The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 9:03 a.m. EDT on April 18, 2014, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event. Solar flares are powerful ...
- 17:18 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Bathing in the Sunset of an 'Earth-Like' Alien World Could a sunset on Kepler-186f look like this? Continue reading →
- 17:15 UTC e! Science News Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Ea... Ancient Earth might have had an extraterrestrial supply of vitamin B3 delivered by carbon-rich meteorites, according to a new analysis by NASA-funded researchers. The result supports a theory that the ...
- 17:12 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... New posts in the Notes from the Field blog - On The Ice S...
- 17:12 UTC Earth Observatory: ... On The Ice Sheet! By Rick Forster Our team finally made it to the ice sheet on April 8, after being delayed for almost two weeks due a series of storms. That day, we ...
- 17:11 UTC NewSpace Journal SpaceX launch to be watched from the air—and perhaps also... The Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the next Dragon spacecraft is shown in its hangar in a photo released by SpaceX last month. This is the first Falcon 9 ...
- 17:00 UTC Scientific American Telescope Apps Help Amateurs Hunt for Exoplanets The "Automated Planet Finder" could make astronomers of us all -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 16:57 UTC The Daily Galaxy NASA's Kepler-Mission Scientists' Insights and Comments o... “Whether we are an extremely rare fluke — a phenomenon that only happens once in a universe — or in a galaxy teeming with life is a very basic question ...
- 16:47 UTC Science World Repor... Storms Threaten SpaceX Resupply Mission Launch to the Int... In what could be the fourth delay in just over a month, SpaceX's third resupply mission to the International Space Station is currently threatened by storms. The launch is scheduled ...
- 16:39 UTC New Scientist The LADEE killers: NASA has crashed probe into moon The lunar spacecraft has been intentionally smashed into the far side of the moon after months spent measuring dust and testing laser-based broadband
- 16:32 UTC SPACE.com Gargantuan Iceberg – 8X Manhattan-Size – Has Left Glacier... “Ice island B31” is 200 feet thick and 21mi X 12mi. It separated from the Antarctic Pine Island Glacier in Nov. 2013. NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites have been imaging ...
- 16:32 UTC SPACE.com US Military Developing Foldable Space Telescope (Video, I... The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says the telescope design — known as the Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation — would be of great use in geosynchronous Earth ...
- 16:24 UTC Universe Today Urgent Spacewalk Must Dance Between Dragon and Progress S... It’s a good thing that next week’s urgent spacewalk is pegged as a short one, because the coming days will be hectic for the Expedition 39 crew. Finding a spot ...
- 15:56 UTC Tychogirl MELANCHOLee Background image is final picture taken as part of the NASA LADEE mission. (Image credit: NASA.) On April 17, 2014, NASA confirmed that LADEE had impacted the lunar surface, as ...
- 15:45 UTC NASA Watch Risk and Exploration Massive Avalanche Over The Lower Khumbu Icefall - with video (May 2009) Keith's note: There was a huge avalanche at Everest yesterday. So far it seems that 12 people were ...
- 15:42 UTC Centauri Dreams An Outward-Looking Grand Strategy We use strategies to weigh the issues around us and maximize our chances for success. Can we create a strategy not just for a specific short-term goal but for the ...
- 15:33 UTC NASA Blueshift [Maggie's Blog] A Secondary Space Mirror One of the cool things about the James Webb Space Telescope’s design is the giant boom that sticks out in front of the telescope. This structure is what holds the ...
- 15:24 UTC Astronomy Nerd spaceexp: Milky Way from Nepal near Everest spaceexp: Milky Way from Nepal near Everest
- 15:23 UTC Science World Repor... NASA Lunar Mission Ends After Planned Spacecraft Crash in... Early Friday morning between approximately 12:30 a.m. and 1:22 a.m. EST, the LADEE spacecraft, as planned, crashed into the moon at 3,600 miles per hour, officially ending the six-month mission.
- 15:17 UTC Sky and Telescope This Week’s Sky at a Glance, April 18–26 Friday, April 18 Jupiter shines right under the big Arch of Spring this year. The Arch spans much of the western sky. Pollux and Castor form its top (as seen ...
- 15:14 UTC Universe Today Watch Live Webcast: Secrets of the Universe’s First Light Just a month ago came the news of the first direct evidence of primordial gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of spacetime — providing the first direct evidence the ...
- 15:11 UTC SPACE.com Boeing-Built Fighter Jets Could Launch US Military Satell... The next generation of satellites could hitch a ride on a fighter jet before heading into space. A new concept awarded to Boeing in late March could slice the launch ...
- 15:03 UTC Space Fellowship Hubble Sees Galaxies Spiraling around Leo Shown here is a spiral galaxy known as NGC 3455, which lies some 65 million light-years away from us in the constellation of Leo (the Lion). Galaxies are classified into ...
- 14:49 UTC SPACE.com RIP LADEE: NASA Moon Probe Crashes Into Lunar Surface The space agency's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer spacecraft (LADEE) made its planned crash into the lunar surface between 12:30 a.m. EDT (0430 GMT) and 1:22 a.m. EDT (0522 ...