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14 Feb 2011
- 04:01 UTC Coalition for Space... Valentine’s Day Comet Rendezvous: Spacecraft to Hit the S... NASA’s Stardust-New Exploration of Tempel 1 (Stardust-NExT) is on target. Mission controllers report that they are pleased with final optical navigation solutions that show the predicted delivery of the spacecraft ...
- 03:57 UTC Journey to the Star... Waxing Gibbous Moon in the Winter Hexagon Tonight’s waxing gibbous moon resides inside the Winter Circle – an incredibly large star configuration made of six brilliant winter stars. Be sure to notice the variety in the colors ...
- 03:47 UTC The Night Sky Guy Solar Eruption Coming Our Way It appears that the Sun has belched a supercharged cloud of particles called a coronal mass ejection (CME) that may have Earth in its crosshairs. Tip of the hat to ...
- 03:08 UTC The Discovery Enter... New Ways to Space: Excalibur Almaz Image via Wikipedia The spacecrafts mentioned so far in this series are completely new vehicles, but Excalibur Almaz has taken a different approach. The Isle of Mann based company is ...
- 02:16 UTC NASA Watch FY 2012 To Cut Back on Commercial Space? NASA Budget Plan Restricts Spending On Private Rockets, WS Journal "The Obama administration's proposed 2012 National Aeronautics and Space Administration budget, expected to total more than $18.5 billion, scales back ...
- 01:53 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Administration budget cuts commercial crew - WSJ Andy Pasztor writes that the President's proposed budget for NASA will request $18.7B and it reduces funding for the commercial crew program: NASA Budget Plan Restricts Spending On Private Rockets ...
- 01:50 UTC NASA CIO Blog Be My Technology Valentine One Valentine’s Day I got a wonderful present from my husband – 256M of memory. That was a great gift when memory cost a little over a dollar a megabyte. ...
- 01:46 UTC Parabolic Arc House Cuts NASA By $303 Million…or $579 Million — Pick On... The House has proposed sharp cuts in NASA. The reductions total either $303 million, $508.7 million or $578.8 million depending upon which budget figures you use. The chart below, based ...
- 01:46 UTC Journey to the Star... Happy Valentines Day from Space! The Heart Nebula, IC 1805, lies some 7500 light years away from Earth. It is located in the Perseus arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. This is an ...
- 01:39 UTC The Daily Galaxy The Day a Half a Million Years of Starlight Zapped the Ea... It came suddenly from the distant reaches of the Constellation Sagittarius, some 50,000 light years away. For a brief instant, a couple of tenths of a second, on December 27, ...
- 01:27 UTC One-Minute Astronom... Best Books for Astronomy – “Seeing in the Dark” We begin an occasional series of short reviews of outstanding astronomy books with one of my favourites, Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris. Written by a lifelong amateur astronomer ...
- 01:10 UTC The Daily Galaxy 2020: Are We Only 9 Years Away from an Artificial Human B... "It's a new brain. The mammals needed it because they had to cope with parenthood, social interactions, complex cognitive functions. It was so successful an evolution from mouse to man ...
- 00:59 UTC Spaceports Nine Planets: One Bigger Than Jupiter? If you grew up thinking there were nine planets and were shocked when Pluto was demoted five years ago, get ready for another surprise. There may be nine after all, ...
- 00:52 UTC Spaceports MESSENGER to Orbit Mercury in March 2011 The MESSENGER orbiter's January 2008 flyby of the planet Mercury was historic. The last time a spacecraft visited was 1975, and it only mapped half the planet. MESSENGER is now ...
- 00:44 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Nautilus-X critique; RALV-B hypersonic airbreathe... A view of the good and the bad about the Nautilus-X Multi-mission exploration vehicle: NASA designs an actual spaceship - robot guy - Feb.12.11. BTW: the post includes the NASA ...
- 00:31 UTC NASA Watch House CR Seeks To Enforce Bar on China Cooperation House continuing resolution would bar NASA from China ties, Politico "None of the funds made available by this division may be used for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or ...
- 00:23 UTC NASA Watch Just When You Thought No One At NASA Was Thinking Ahead Nautilus-X - NASA's Multi-mission Space Exploration Vehicle Concept - Long-duration space journey vehicle for crew of 6 for periods of 1 -24 months - CIS-lunar would be initial Operations Zone ...
- 00:19 UTC Systemic - Characte... An analogy? Image Source. If one looks at planetary systems from the “modern” point of view provided by the HARPS survey and the results from Kepler’s recent data release, our own solar ...
- 00:15 UTC Aviation Week: On S... Sun Produces Largest Flare in its Cycle The Solar Dynamics Observatory -- which was launched exactly one year ago last Friday -- caught an image of this spectacular M6.6 solar flare just after noon EST yesterday. This ...
- 00:15 UTC Aviation Week: On S... Sun Produces Largest Flare in its Cycle The Solar Dynamics Observatory -- which was launched exactly one year ago last Friday -- caught an image of this spectacular M6.6 solar flare just after noon EST yesterday. This ...
13 Feb 2011
- 23:56 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: ULA commercial crew in 2014; Budget fact sheets Interesting that ULA is working on EELV commercial crew development on the assumption that crew flights could start as early as 2014: Safety system tested for Atlas and Delta rockets ...
- 23:55 UTC Cosmic Variance Bloodbath for Science Last Wednesday the House Appropriations Committee released a list of proposed cuts totaling over $74 billion to be attached to the continuing resolution under which the government is presently operating. ...
- 23:21 UTC Lights in the Dark A Solar Bullet Can’t see the video below? Click here. Around 12:38 pm EST today, an energetic sunspot region on the Sun released a flare in our direction. The video above, a crop ...
- 23:13 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Emi Koussi Volcano, Chad At 3,415 meters above sea level, Emi Koussi volcano is the highest summit of Africa's Sahara region.
- 23:08 UTC Universe Today Romantic Valentines Day Encounter Looms with Icy Comet At last, NASA embraces a romantic rendezvous in the dark void of deep space. And soon the whole world can watch the up close meet up of the hot Stardust ...
- 20:58 UTC astropixie valentine's forecast via central illustrationbut dont despair because...if you need some nerdy valentine love, check out this video where the chemists of the period table of videos produce the "perfect perfume." also, ...
- 19:29 UTC HobbySpace Blog MyMoon offers lunar related treats The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) has a public outreach section called MyMoon. It provides webcasts by lunar experts, announcements to upcoming events, and resources like the cool Moon Globe ...
- 19:12 UTC HobbySpace Blog "Just Another Day In Space" in Space Rock contest Kurt Lanham entered his song, Just Another Day In Space into NASA's Space Rock contest: Local Musician's Song Could Launch into Space with Last Shuttle Flight - WAAYTV.com [AL].
- 19:04 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Walling out China; Shuttle risk calcs; Trusting t... This is overkill in blocking NASA contacts with China: House continuing resolution would bar NASA from China ties - Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com. === If I were going to the ...
- 19:00 UTC Parabolic Arc International Asteroid Symposium Set for April International Symposium on Asteroid Mitigation and Exploration Texas A&M University — College Station April 4-6, 2011 http://aeweb.tamu.edu/isam/index.php The International Symposium on Asteroid Mitigation and Exploration, to be held in College ...
- 18:46 UTC Steve's Astro Corne... On The Horizon What Is The Next Big Thing? The decadal survey for where astrophysics and astronomy is headed for the next ten years has been here for a few months now. The dust has settled; our course is ...
- 18:25 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Space Project Enterprise Space Project Enterprise is a joint study conducted by the Air Force Space and Cyber Strategy Center in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration, ...
- 18:15 UTC Parabolic Arc Jack Schmitt Withdraws Name for New Mexico Energy Post Governor Susana Martinez issued the following statement following Senator Harrison Schmitt’s decision to withdraw his nomination to serve as the State’s Secretary of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources:“Senator Schmitt is ...
- 18:01 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Misc. Sunday space links John Carmack posts a photo of some gear on the Armadillo hangar floor: John Carmack's photos - Dual band + video rocket tracking - Plixi - Feb.12.11. Edward Ellegood posts ...
- 17:59 UTC Starts With A Bang! Weekend Diversion: Dark Matter Outreach for the Pros? "Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum." (I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am) -Rene Descartes I always try to give you something beautiful completely unrelated to astronomy, ...
- 17:55 UTC Spaceports Stardust-NExT Ready for Comet Encounter Two hundred million miles from Earth, the Stardust-NExT spacecraft is expected to fly within 125 miles of comet Tempel 1 on Valentine's night - just prior to midnight EST. The ...
- 17:48 UTC Cosmos 4 U Closest non-impacting object in our asteroid catalog came... Asteroid 2011 CQ1 made a record close Earth approach on February 4th, 14 hours after its discovery. It passed to within 0.85 Earth radii (5480 km) of the Earth's surface: ...
- 17:44 UTC Astro Bob Say cheese! When the space shuttle Discovery launches on February 24 and later docks with the International Space Station (ISS), shuttle managers are considering staging the ultimate “photo op”. They’d put a ...
- 17:43 UTC The Launch Pad Prize Roundup: GLXP Roundup, Space Access '11 Prize Teams... Google Lunar X PRIZE Roundup #41 - Luna C/I: Moon Colonization and Integration Fly Me To The Moon - The Daily Students Design Their Future - The Huffington Post Saturday ...
- 17:36 UTC Space Prizes JSETEC 2011 Vids, 2011 Tether Prizes, TARC, More Gearing up for JSETEC 2011 - The Space Elevator Blog - JSETEC stands for Japan Space Elevator Technical & Engineering Competition.Announcing the 2011 Artsutanov and Pearson prizes - The Space ...
- 17:02 UTC Journey to the Star... Supernumerary Rainbow over Cebu City, Philippines Last February 5, I and some friends flew to Cebu City, the ‘Queen City of the South’ to tour around and explore some of its famous landmarks. As we were ...
- 16:12 UTC John's Space / Astr... Love Comets? Tell NASA About it and Get A Badge! Have a passion for comets? Like quirky social media campaigns? Then look no further because NASA is meeting your desires. This Valentine's Day, NASA's Stardust spacecraft is set to have ...
- 16:00 UTC Alien Life Ecosystem engineers and optimism for finding ETI Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g Stars - New research shows that an optic effect ...
- 15:56 UTC Spaceports House Seeks to Ban NASA from China Ties In a long-running fight between the Obama administration and Congressman Frank Wolf, a critic of China on human rights, national security and economic ties with the United States, the Virginia ...
- 15:54 UTC Astronomy Weather B... Controversy About Light Pollution in Arizona Local business and astronomers are struggling to come to an agreement about what do with light pollution in Arizona. Astronomers say limiting outdoor lighting is crucial to stargazing and they ...
- 15:47 UTC Spaceports Universe expanding at an ever-faster rate In 1998, two independent teams of astrophysicists discovered a baffling phenomenon: the Universe is expanding at an ever-faster rate. The current understanding of gravity can't explain this cosmic acceleration. Scientists ...
- 15:44 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos Credit: NSF / B.... Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos Credit: NSF / B. Gudbjartsson, IceCube Collaboration
- 15:42 UTC Spaceports Alan Stern Talks Pluto Mission w/SETI In 2006 NASA launched a sophisticated robotic explorer to make the first reconnaissance of planet Pluto and its moons, three billion miles from the Sun. That spacecraft is called New ...
- 15:00 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Sunday At The Movies From NASA TV, here’s a short movie about STEREO I thought was interesting. I should probably put STEREO on my list for a future blog post. Interested? Click here to ...
- 14:53 UTC In the Dark The Welsh University Challenge Last week I received an email from BBC Wales asking me to get in touch with one of their reporters. It turned out to be about a blog post I ...