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31 Jan 2011
- 01:06 UTC SIdeways Orion Not quite telescope advise When we arrived home this evening, I got out of the car and looked up (as I always do.) It was beautiful! Dark and clear, with Jupiter and Orion practically ...
- 00:54 UTC HobbySpace Blog Journalist seeks a ride to space Kate Gray is a British journalist who blogs at target="_d">SpaceKate.com about space and her interest in going to space herself. She talks with Pars3c about her quest for space: High ...
- 00:49 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Spacevidcast: STS-135, cool space stuff and news Here's the latest Spacevidcast program: Spacevidcast - STS-135, cool space stuff and news - Live Show 4.01 -
- 00:46 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... ISS traffic report Not sure three vehicles within a month or so really constitutes a "wave" but it's still cool to have vehicles traveling from different places on earth to a large orbital ...
- 00:43 UTC NASA Watch MSL Needs More Money NASA's Overbudget Mars Rover in Need of Another Cash Infusion "NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission needs an $82 million cash infusion to maintain its late November launch date after ...
- 00:41 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... ISDC 2011 update Here is the preliminary agenda for the International Space Development Conference (ISDC) 2011 in - Huntsville Alabama over May 18-22, 2011. April 1 is the deadline for submissions for speakers, ...
- 00:38 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Shuttle lessons for Sen. Nelson; Archiving close ... The Shuttle system become much more complex and fragile after budget cuts forced NASA to make numerous compromises in its design. Sen. Nelson should consider such experience when trying to ...
- 00:18 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Martinez & Branson spoke before spaceport changes Richard Branson recommended against changes to Spaceport America management but to no avail: /-- Branson appealed to keep Homans' job - NewSpace Journal /-- Martinez discusses goals, progress in Legislature ...
30 Jan 2011
- 23:22 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Brasília at Night The developed areas of Brasília and its satellite cities are clearly outlined by street grids and highway lights in this astronaut photograph taken from the International Space Station.
- 22:34 UTC NASA Watch Once Again, NASA Seeks Animal Irradiation Proposals NASA Research Announcement "Ground-Based Studies in Space Radiobiology" "This NRA solicits ground-based proposals for the Space Radiation Program Element (SRPE) component of the Human Research Program (HRP). Proposals are solicited ...
- 22:24 UTC NASA Watch STS-134 Commander Decision In Mid-Feb Giffords husband to decide on space trip in mid-Feb, Reuters "The astronaut husband of a U.S. congresswoman seriously wounded when she was shot in head will decide by mid-February whether ...
- 21:38 UTC Parabolic Arc Blue Origin Files for Patent on Reuseable Booster Recover... Blue Origin has filed for a patent for recovering a reusable booster system from the sea. Company founder Jeff Bezos is listed as a co-inventor with Gary Lai and Sean ...
- 21:32 UTC astropixie lessons from australia #1 always walk behind someone who is slightly taller than you (especially in the morning)...comic from the oatmeal
- 21:18 UTC Parabolic Arc Jeff Manber: Hire Capt. Kirk as Space Adventures’ Spokesm... Jeff Manber isn’t very impressed with Space Adventures’ plan to send humans around the moon. He’s skeptical about whether the company has actually sold a $150 million ticket, thinks their ...
- 20:49 UTC Urban Astronomer Carnival of Space #182 A new year, a new Carnival of Space! This time around, Brian Wang from Next Big Future has collected the very finest astronomy and space science related blog posts and ...
- 20:22 UTC Parabolic Arc Taurus II Engine Tests Coming Along Nicely NASA PROGRAM UPDATE You see a lot of smiles around the E-1 Test Stand at John C. Stennis Space Center these days. Engineers involved in testing Aerojet’s AJ26 rocket engine ...
- 20:09 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Stardust-NExT Probably the best short overview so far. Only a couple of weeks to go. Click here to view the embedded video. Probably the best short overview so far. Only a ...
- 20:04 UTC Parabolic Arc BrahMos to Produce ISRO Cryo Stage, Eyes Mach 7 Missile W... BrahMos Aerospace to make cryogenic engines for Indian rockets Mangalorean.comMissile makers BrahMos Aerospace will manufacture the cryogenic engine once the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) perfects the technology, said a ...
- 19:52 UTC astrobites The Databases of Astronomy: Organizing the Knowledge of t... Astronomy is a field that has written records that date far back in history, much of it published in journals, books, and letters. However, only in the later part of ...
- 19:43 UTC Lights in the Dark A Sense of “Scale” Here’s a very cool animation by motion designer Brad Goodspeed, showing what our night sky might look like were some of the other planets in our solar system at the ...
- 19:06 UTC NASA Hack Space Video: What Would Jupiter Look Like in Our Sky? Echoes o... Scale from Brad Goodspeed on Vimeo. Brad Goodspeed: "Here's an animation I did to make you feel small. While watching the video of the lunar eclipse I posted the other ...
- 18:30 UTC Journey to the Star... Rare Double Eruption on the Sun! Source: Spaceweather.com | Movie by: NASA-Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Astronomers have captured an image of the Sun with two large solar eruptions occurring at almost the same time! The twin ...
- 18:18 UTC Coalition for Space... Russia’s Progress 41 reaches International Space Station,... Russia’s 41st Progress supply capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station late Saturday, the latest in a series of unmanned global cargo vessels headed for the six person orbiting ...
- 18:02 UTC Astro Bob A paddle down the starry river Surely the clouds will part and allow a little starlight in. That other variety of stars, the cold, crystalline type, has been falling every day and night the past week. ...
- 17:46 UTC Universe Today Challenger Astronauts Memorialized on the Moon Shortly after the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986, seven craters on the eastern rim of the Apollo basin were named after the crew: Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, ...
- 17:42 UTC Spaceports U.S., EU Eye Code of Conduct for Space The Obama administration is negotiating with the European Union on an agreement limiting the use of anti-satellite weapons, a move that some critics say could curb U.S. development of space ...
- 17:37 UTC Astronomy Blog Sport reported like science This afternoon a wormhole from a fictional universe opened in my living room. Through it fell a tabloid newspaper. This sort of fictional event doesn't happen every Sunday so, intrigued, ...
- 17:20 UTC Cosmic Variance A Sense of Doubt Jerry Coyne, cheerful fire-breathing atheist that he is, gets invited to a church to talk about evolution. That’s not how it worked out, as people were more interested in talking ...
- 17:08 UTC Slacker Astronomy What Would Neptune Look Like if it Orbited Earth? interesting data visualization. –Ben ============== What Would Neptune Look Like if it Orbited Earth? Here’s an animation I did to make you feel small. While watching the video of the ...
- 16:43 UTC Spacevidcast STS-135, cool space stuff and news – Live Show 4.01 Show links available on our Wiki. STS-135 is an official yet unfunded mission, the most complex EDL ever, China test unmanned craft, Nanosail comes back to life and more news. ...
- 16:36 UTC OrbitalHub Sustainability in LEO: A Short History The place where space exploration, science, and engineering meet
- 16:11 UTC NewSpace Journal Branson appealed to keep Homans’ job The turmoil surrounding the management of Spaceport America in New Mexico has been relatively quiet the last couple of weeks, after the resignation of executive director Rick Homans at the ...
- 16:11 UTC Coalition for Space... Mars Rover’s Robotic Arm Performs Up-Close Observations NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover – Opportunity – is busy at work at the edge of “Santa Maria” crater, surveying the diverse textures of the geological feature. Recent imagery shows the ...
- 16:00 UTC Alien Life Fizzy ocean on Enceladus and imagining 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 Abodes - In 2005, Cassini spotted plumes erupting from ...
- 14:00 UTC Steve's Astro Corne... A Little Fun With Your New Astrological Sign Now I know you are a little distraught over the fact you are not what you think you are when it comes to astrological signs so I have decided to ...
- 13:54 UTC In the Dark Certain Scientists aren’t Good Scientists Just time for a quickie today because tomorrow is the first day of teaching (in what we optimistically call the “Spring Semester”) and I’ve decided to head into the department ...
- 12:56 UTC Astronomy Weather B... We Can Expect Brilliant Northern Lights in Early February A coronal hole has opened up on the surface of the sun this month. This hole is characterized by being colder and darker with lower density plasma as compared to ...
- 12:19 UTC 13.7 Standing The Brain On Its Head Stuart Kauffman stands the brain on its head. by Stuart Kauffman My aim in this post is to consider a new scientific hypothesis: Standing the Brain on its head. I ...
- 12:04 UTC Young Astronomers Image of the Week – The Cosmic Potato – 30/01/11 NASA’s Mars Express has recently had a close encounter with Mars’ moon Phobos (from the Greek god of fear and horror). The Mars Express image of Phobos Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin ...
- 11:20 UTC WikiSky Dark days for Internet in Canada are coming CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) by recent decision let very few corporations, who owns all telecom in Canada to practically get rid of their smaller competitors, who offered better ...
- 10:35 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... The Cold Facts of a Mass Extinction Researchers have discovered new details surrounding the second-largest mass extinction in Earth s history. The new study shows that a loss of more than 75 percent of species in the ...
- 10:14 UTC WikiSky SDSS-III cleaner version has been released We’ve done some cleaning on new SDSS-III survey. New version is now available online. Basically we lowered priorities on drawing “dirty” SDSS frames on main survey, leaving cleaner frames on ...
- 08:48 UTC astropixie if jupiter orbited the earth... Scale from Brad Goodspeed on Vimeo.
- 08:45 UTC Dear Astronomer Scale From Brad Goodspeed at bradblogspeed.com: …the basic idea is, each planet you see is the size it would appear in the sky if it shared an orbit with the moon, ...
- 08:05 UTC The Discovery Enter... Secrets of the Stone Age 1: The Wisdom of the Stones Hagar Qin Megalithic Temple Complex on the Island of MaltaToday on Discovery Enterprise we begin a three-part series titled "Secrets of the Stone Age" in which anthropologist and author Richard ...
- 07:22 UTC Young Astronomers The Quasars: Light Fantastic! So here is a summed up part on Quasars. When quasars were discovered in 1963, they instantly became astronomy’s number-one enigma. Measurements of their special redshifts, caused by the expansion ...
- 07:12 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Delta IV H. picts; Space prizes roundup; Armadill... A reader points me to this cool set of pictures showing the recent Delta IV launch and highlighting the "toasted marshmellow" effect from the burst of flames around the ship ...
- 07:02 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: Progress docks at ISS; Manber on commercial lunar... The latest Progress cargo ship makes it to the ISS: Russian cargo ship docks with space station: Unmanned Progress craft carrying tiny satellite and birthday presents - msnbc.com/space.com - Jan.29.11. ...
- 06:13 UTC we are all in the g... Observatory life Hello again from the top of Mauna Kea. It’s night 5 of my 7 night run using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and it’s all going pretty smoothly so ...
- 06:01 UTC Spaceports ARISSat-1 Arrives at International Space Station Exciting... The Russian Progress-41 flight carrying the ARISSat-1 Amateur Radio Experiment to the International Space Station arrived safely Saturday, January 29, 2011.The unpiloted flight of the Progress resupply craft automatically berthed ...