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11 Feb 2011
- 10:07 UTC Space Fellowship Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report Spacecraft: Glory Launch Vehicle: Taurus XL 3110 Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Launch Pad: SLC 576E Launch Date: Feb. 23, 2011 Launch Time: 2:09:43 a.m. PST Altitude/Inclination: 440 ...
- 10:05 UTC Space Fellowship Lockheed Martin Ships Out First Orion Spacecraft NEW ORLEANS, La -- The Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] Orion team shipped out the first Orion crew module spacecraft structure today from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, La. The ...
- 10:03 UTC Space Fellowship New View of Family Life in the North American Nebula Pasadena, Calif. -- Stars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults, are on display in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This cosmic ...
- 10:00 UTC The Daily Galaxy Last Week Asteroid "2011 CQ1" Made the Closest Near-Earth... On Friday, a meter-sized asteroid called 2011 CQ1 was observed streaking only 5480 kilometres above the Earth's surface -the closest near miss on record, beating the previous record holder, a ...
- 09:50 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Stardust Celebrates Twelve Years With Rocket Burn February 08, 2011 PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Stardust spacecraft marked its 12th anniversary in space on Monday, Feb. 7, with a rocket burn to further refine its path toward a ...
- 09:44 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day NGC7293 Helix + aste... Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day NGC7293 Helix + asteroid 92 UndinaImage Credit: Carlo Rocchi (astrogufo)
- 09:43 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Robot Officially On Space Station Payroll Last week, Dextre unpacked cargo from the Japanese HTV freighter, adding some helpful robotic hands to in-orbit activities.
- 09:40 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Astronomy Picture of the Day Star Colors in Orion Credit.... Astronomy Picture of the Day Star Colors in Orion Credit & Copyright: Jens Hackmann
- 09:18 UTC Urban Astronomer X-37B preparing for second mission The X-37B is shown here after completing its first experimental test mission. Photo credit: Boeing The US Air Force has announced that the secretive X-37B spaceplane is being prepared for ...
- 09:00 UTC The Daily Galaxy Newly Discovered Planet Eating Stars A group of nine unusual stars spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope in a young cluster above called NGC 3603 that are too cool to be ordinary stars, with analysis ...
- 08:03 UTC The Daily Galaxy From the 'X Files' Dept: UFO Fleet Reported Sighted Acros... A UFO fleet observed above Mt. Fuji in Japan is making big headlines across Asia, espically in in UFO obsessed China. The sighting of the UFO convoy was initially reported ...
- 07:09 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... The ATK/Astrium Liberty promotional video Trent also points me to this ATK promotional video for the Liberty: I see that they are still claiming, as they did in justifying the Constellation architecture, that the EELVs ...
- 06:53 UTC In the Dark Admissions Busy day today, necessitating an early start and a packed morning followed by a trip to the Big Smoke later on. I thought I’d use my daily post to try ...
- 06:37 UTC Astronomy Weather B... Another Possible Delay for Discovery and More News About ... NASA is checking for damage caused by a dropped tool to the Space Shuttle Discovery, which is supposed to blast off Feb. 24 for the International Space Station after a ...
- 06:30 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Garriott spreads the NewSpace Gospel to gamers Richard Garriott talked some about games but mostly about his space experience and about the exciting developments in entrepreneurial space during his presentation at the DICE 2011 event: Richard Garriott ...
- 06:19 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: ATK Liberty with/without NASA; ULA gets DoD boost ATK claims it will build the Liberty system even if NASA does not award it any CCDev-2 (Commercial Crew Development - Phase 2) money: ATK moving forward with Liberty rocket ...
- 06:00 UTC Lights in the Dark Tempel of Love This Valentine’s Day – that’s Monday, guys! – NASA’s Stardust spacecraft will have an out-of-this-world date with a heavenly body: the comet Tempel 1, seen above in an image mosaic ...
- 05:57 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... The Dragon beckons Congress Elon Musk tries to convince the pooh-bahs of Capitol Hill that a commercial company really did send a space capsule to orbit and got it back in one piece: SpaceX ...
- 05:48 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Fixing Shelby's Folly; 2012 NASA budget on Monday Rather than waiting another month or two for the 2011 budget finally to be passed, Sen. Bill Nelson is trying to remove Sen Shelby's restriction on canceling Constellation projects: S. ...
- 05:38 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Climate Change to the Core Researchers have reached a milestone depth of 3,331 meters while drilling in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide. Drilling into the ice will allow scientists to investigate 100,000 years of ...
- 05:38 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... When Hiberating Microbes Awaken New research sheds light on how microorganisms are able to hibernate for long periods of time. This unique ability of microorganisms affects entire ecosystems on Earth, and could have implications ...
- 05:28 UTC A Babe in the Unive... Rings A ring of Black Holes (pink) seen by the Chandra X-Ray telescope, superimposed on a ring of stars (blue) seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Arp 147, 430 million light-years ...
- 05:18 UTC The Daily Galaxy Image of the Day: Jupiter's "Lost" Belt The raging turmoil inside Jupiter’s missing – and slowly re-emerging – South Equatorial Belt can now be seen in unprecedented detail by the Keck II telescope’s Adaptive Optics system and ...
- 05:01 UTC Space Photos Changing Face of the North American Nebula Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Luisa M. Rebull (SSC/Caltech) Description: This image layout reveals how the appearance of the North American nebula can change dramatically using different combinations of visible and infrared observations from ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA: Stennis News ... NASA Stennis Space Center Hosts NASA Day at the Capitol Representatives from NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center visited Jackson on Feb. 10, to meet with Mississippi legislators as part of NASA Day at the Capitol.
- 04:54 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Space Station Astronaut Plays Flute in Orbit Space station flight engineer Cady Coleman isn't slacking on her music practice even though she's in orbit.
- 04:46 UTC The Daily Galaxy Ice-Age Trees Predicting Climate Change "While it will be fascinating to find out more about the earth 30,000 years ago perhaps more importantly we will have a better appreciation of the challenges of future climate ...
- 04:39 UTC Cosmic Log How near is the Singularity? The Singularity is back in the spotlight, thanks to a Time cover story focusing on inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil and his forecast that "the end of human civilization as we know ...
- 04:27 UTC Starts With A Bang! Never a Miscommunication? Mr. Harley: Your impatience is quite understandable. Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it. Mr. Harley: I'm afraid my people haven't. I'm very sorry...
- 04:22 UTC The Daily Galaxy Is Venus -Thought to Be Dead- Geologically Active? "The geological history of Venus has long been a mystery," said Sue Smrekar, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Previous spacecraft gave us hints of volcanic ...
- 04:16 UTC NASA Watch ATK (Apparently) Does Not Need NASA Money For Liberty ATK moving forward with Liberty rocket, Salt Lake Tribune "Regardless of whether the government agrees to help fund Alliant Techsystems' rocket that would take astronauts to the International Space Station, ...
- 04:06 UTC Astrocast.TV Blog Seeing Beyond the Visible Big Discoveries in Infrared and X-ray Astronomy This week has seen the release of two gorgeous sets of images from orbiting telescopes that “see” well beyond the visible part of ...
- 03:02 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com STS-133: NASA Considering Soyuz Flyaround to Photograph D... NASA managers are investigating a proposed plan that would see a Soyuz spacecraft undock from the International Space Station (ISS) during the upcoming STS-133 mission in order to take photographs ...
- 02:33 UTC Astroblog Venus Near M22 and M25 On Saturday 12 Feb, 2011 Left hand image: Venus in Sagittarius at 5:00 am, local daylight saving time, above the eastern horizon. . Right hand image: Approximate binocular view showing Venus near M22 and M25 ...
- 02:32 UTC Cosmic Log Starry continent shines brighter North America has been thoroughly explored, but the North America Nebula is a different matter entirely. Fresh infrared images of the continent-shaped star-forming region, lying in the constellation Cygnus, reveal ...
- 02:17 UTC Lunar Networks LROC: Rima Bradley Rima Bradley is a 134 km northeast/southwest-trending linear rille at the foot of Montes Apenninus, between Mare Imbrium and Palus Putredinis, very close to the Hadley Rille Valley landing site ...
- 02:12 UTC Cosmic Diary Cosmic Diary Blog hosted at the SETI Institute An important update for our readers. You may have noticed a lack of activity over the few days on this blog and a significant change in the speed access of ...
- 01:58 UTC One-Minute Astronom... Bloodless Eyes Through a Frosty Window Something good today… a small reflection nebula in the constellation Orion that’s often overlooked for the more famous Orion Nebula. Catalogued as M78, this pretty little nebula is well worth ...
- 01:23 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conf - more notes I'll add here some more links and notes from the two day FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference in downtown D.C. this week (agenda (pdf)). /-- Orbital Transport session - Wednesday ...
- 01:12 UTC Cosmic Log Be my X-ray valentine Here's a piece of eye candy to share with your honey this Valentine's Day: a colorful ring of stars encrusted with black holes that cast a pink glow, thanks to ...
- 01:10 UTC Astroblog 99942 Apophis, This is Not the Killer Asteroid You Are Lo... Asteroid 99942 Apophis visualised in Celestia.The asteroid 99942 Apophis (2004 MN4) is in the news again. The Bad Astronomer has already railed about the media mangling of the research on ...
- 01:05 UTC Parabolic Arc ATK: We’ll Build Liberty With or Without NASA Funding It looks like ATK and Astrium would move ahead with building its Liberty rocket even if it doesn’t get a portion of the $200 million NASA is set to distribute ...
10 Feb 2011
- 23:45 UTC TheSpaceWriter's Ra... Come With Me to the Starry City And View it in Waves of Infrared Light Astronomy takes you out there, thataway — and takes your breath away with cosmic visions of loveliness. If it weren’t for the ...
- 23:28 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: More on revised NM spaceport directors; Space Flo... Some background information about the new board of directors for the New Mexico spaceport: Gov. taps 7 for spaceport board - Las Cruces Sun-News (via spacetoday.net). I'll note that Charles ...
- 23:13 UTC Space Photos Arp 147: Giant Ring of Black Holes Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/S.Rappaport et al, Optical: NASA/STSc Description: Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a new image of a ring — not of jewels — but of black holes. ...
- 23:12 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Snow in Southern U.S. The icy fingers of winter 2010-11 reached down into the south central U.S. for the second time in a week, breaking many local records for snowfall in a month that ...
- 23:07 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Lunar pits update; See the Moon now; Lunar pundit... Bob Zimmerman has the latest on lunar cave pits: The underground Moon - Behind The Black - Feb.8.11. === You can't see the cave openings but the "next few nights ...
- 22:57 UTC Parabolic Arc SFF to Congress: Keep Your Promise SFF ANNOUNCEMENT Members of the Space Frontier Foundation are headed to Washington on March 6-8, 2011 to urge Congress to “Keep the Promise” when it comes to supporting the new ...
- 22:45 UTC Parabolic Arc ISRO S-Band Scandal Grows ISRO is in deep trouble over an insider deal it made to allocate valuable S-band spectrum to a well-connected media company. The furor over the controversy has been growing daily ...
- 22:41 UTC Universe Today Spitzer’s Stunning New View of the North American Nebula In visible light, the North American nebula resembles its namesake continent. But looking at it in the infrared spectrum, a whole new perspective explodes into view. Clouds of dust and ...