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27 Jan 2011
- 11:53 UTC Aviation Week: On S... ISS Crew Grapples Japan's Kounotori Supply Capsule The International Space Station crew successfully grappled Japan's second unmanned H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-2) space freighter during rendezvous operations early Jan. 27, setting the stage for berthing activities using the ...
- 11:53 UTC Aviation Week: On S... ISS Crew Grapples Japan's Kounotori Supply Capsule The International Space Station crew successfully grappled Japan's second unmanned H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-2) space freighter during rendezvous operations early Jan. 27, setting the stage for berthing activities using the ...
- 11:39 UTC The Flame Trench Station crew captures Japan's "white stork" International Space Station crew members this morning successfully grappled a Japanese cargo spacecraft at 6:41 a.m. EST today. "Capture," radioed Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli as the station's 50-foot robotic arm ...
- 11:16 UTC John's Space / Astr... NASA Schedules Final Mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis NASA finally started preparations to launch space shuttle Atlantis one final time, bringing to an end the era of orbiter flight in late June. The slate is finally set. Sort ...
- 11:00 UTC AmericaSpace How Apollo Was Saved & Lessons For Today’s NASA New York Times July 13, 1963 article about Apollo program crisis It’s interesting to look back at the history of Project Apollo, without the rose colored glasses through which that ...
- 10:37 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Confirmed! Jupiter was Shot with an Asteroid After some cosmic detective work, it would appear the July 19, 2009, scar in Jupiter's atmosphere was inflicted by a Titanic-sized asteroid and not a comet.
- 10:17 UTC Faulkes Telescope N... Back Down2Earth in Cardiff Bay The Faulkes Telescope Project attended the Beacon for Wales Showcase Event at the National Assembly for Wales Building in Cardiff Bay earlier this week. The event, organised by the Beacon ...
- 09:49 UTC LCOGT news Further explosions from comet Schwassmann-Wachmann Once again Richard Miles (Director of the BAA, asteroids and comets section) has been following up interesting activity on the periodic comet, Comet 29P/ Schwassmann-Wachmann. His report is below. read ...
- 09:34 UTC Urban Astronomer The Perrier Moon of Saturn Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn's Enceladus Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASANew work based on data returned from the Cassini mission suggests that Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, ...
- 09:31 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com LIVE: ISS Crew Prepares for Rendezvous and Capture of HTV... After less than a week in space, Japan’s HTV-2 spacecraft is approaching the International Space Station (ISS) in preparation for proximity ops to the Station, grappling by the ISS crew ...
- 09:30 UTC The Daily Galaxy Faint Red Blob: The Most Distant Galaxy Ever Discovered! Astronomers have used Hubble to spot what they think is the furthest and one of the very earliest galaxies ever seen in the Universe. Candidate galaxy UDFj-39546284 appears as a ...
- 09:25 UTC Nightly News Joe Bauman: The Farthest Galaxy Yet -- But Where Are Its... Looking back through time to only about 480 million years after the Big Bang, the Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the...
- 09:10 UTC The Daily Galaxy "Jupiter CSI": 2009 Impact Scar Big as the Pacific Caused... A hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to Glenn Orton, an astronomer at NASA's Jet ...
- 09:10 UTC Mars and Me Spirit Sol 735 Things being in the state they're in, we start the day with an oddly subdued anomaly meeting. Yestersol's drive went OK, with occasional warnings about the dynamic brakes, but since ...
- 08:46 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Did Riccioli 'Discover' the Coriolis Effect? Did an Italian Jesuit priest named Giovanni Battista Riccioli accidentally discover the phenomenon 200 years before Coriolis?
- 08:37 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... The latest Hi-Res Images from Mars credit: LPL The latest Hi-Res Images from Mars credit: LPL
- 08:18 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Hidden Treasures of M78 Astronomy Picture of the Day Credit: ESO / Igor Chekalin For a bigger image and more information visit: http://apod.nasa.gov//apod/
- 08:14 UTC The Daily Galaxy Sprawl! China Developing a New City: Pop 42 Million the S... City planners and architects in China are hoping to turn the nine cities in the Pearl River Delta into a single, monster megacity with a population the of 42 million ...
- 08:05 UTC The Discovery Enter... The Universe - Backyard Astronomers Today on Discovery Enterprise we present “The Universe: Backyard Astronomers” where the Astronomy novice can learn about planets, stars and constellations and how to see them in the night's sky.As ...
- 07:47 UTC EAAE News A Fizzy Ocean on Enceladus Source: NASA Science News A Cassini image of vaporous, icy jets emerging from fissures on Enceladus. Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI; Mosaic: Emily Lakdawalla For years researchers have been debating whether Enceladus, a ...
- 07:38 UTC Coalition for Space... Tally Ho! First Imagery of Comet Tempel 1 by NASA’s Stard... A Valentine’s Day target has been spotted by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft. Images of comet Tempel 1 have been relayed by the en route probe, over 16 million miles away from ...
- 06:26 UTC collectSPACE.com: T... National Day of Remembrance NASA on Thursday observes a Day of Remembrance honoring the fallen crews of Apollo 1, space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, and all of those who have lost their lives in ...
- 05:15 UTC Moon Question of th... Moon Question of the Day (from The Old Farmer's Almanac) A daily Moon question from The Old Farmer's Almanac.
- 05:05 UTC The New York Times In Hubble’s Lens, Signs of a Galaxy Older and Farther Tha... Astronomers say they have detected what may be the earliest galaxy yet found.
- 05:01 UTC Space Photos Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka Image Credit & Copyright: Sergi Verdugo Martínez Explanation: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka, are the bright bluish stars from east to west (left to right) along the diagonal in this gorgeous ...
- 05:00 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... NanoSail-D Flies Free NASA s NanoSail-D spacecraft has become the first-ever mission to solar sail in orbit. Last month, the mission failed to eject from the larger spacecraft that took it to space. ...
- 05:00 UTC Spaceports The Real "Sputnik Moment" in History President Barack Obama made reference to a "Sputnik Moment" in America. The president pointed to how the national has fallen behind other nations in public STEM education, the ratio of ...
- 04:30 UTC Space Fellowship Russian astronomers predict Apophis-Earth collision in 20... Russian astronomers have predicted that asteroid Apophis may strike Earth on April 13, 2036. "Apophis will approach Earth at a distance of 37,000-38,000 kilometers on April 13, 2029. Its likely ...
- 04:27 UTC Space Fellowship Kounotori2 Nears Station, Crew Stays Focused on Station A... Japan’s second H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV2) nicknamed Kuonotori2, or “White Stork,” is scheduled to arrive Thursday morning at the International Space Station. Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli and Catherine Coleman will ...
- 04:24 UTC Space Fellowship Asteroids Ahoy! Jupiter Scar Likely from Rocky Body A hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to two papers published recently in the journal ...
- 04:17 UTC Atomic Rockets Dual-Fluid Single-Launch Propellant Depots Dual-Fluid Single-Launch Propellant Depots Jan 21st, 2011 by Jonathan Goff [Note: Welcome AIAA Daily Launch readers! Feel free to check out other posts on propellant depots, as well as the ...
- 03:47 UTC The Daily Galaxy CERN Physicists Zeroing In on Solving Mystery of Dark Mat... CERN Physicists at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) particle detector, part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva are zeroing in on one of the great unsolved mysteries of ...
- 03:37 UTC The Planetary Socie... Stardust update: Tempel 1 Ahoy! It is with great relief that I now report that JPL announced this evening the sighting of Tempel 1 by Stardust, a mere month before the planned flyby. It's not ...
- 03:24 UTC The Daily Galaxy Dark-Matter Halos and Black Holes: Are They Linked? The largest galaxies with in the largest halos of dark matter also harbor the most massive black holes. which has led to speculation that exotic physics controls the growth of ...
- 03:10 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Smartphone gets new job as spacecraft processor A reader points me to an interesting project at Surrey Satellite. In an experiment in using low-cost, off-the-shelf components for space applications, they are taking advantage of the tremendous processing ...
- 03:06 UTC The Daily Galaxy "Galactic Flashes May Signal Transmissions By Other Civil... "We'll be looking for the occasional celestial flash," said Joseph Lazio, a radio astronomer at JPL. "These flashes can be anything from explosions on surfaces of nearby stars, deaths of ...
- 02:58 UTC Cosmic Diary Annular solar eclipse from space This is the annular eclipse of the Sun viewed from space! This X-ray photo was acquired by solar physics satellite “Hinode” on 4 Janunary 2011. The dark disk in front ...
- 02:56 UTC Universe Today Groovin’ to the Latest Images from Mars The folks from the HiRISE Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have put together a video with some groovin’ music of the latest images from the Red Planet, courtesy of ...
- 02:53 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Space Music: DJ Luv's Solid Steel Mix and Music for Space... Seeing as we didn't win those free Virgin Galactic tickets, space music is still the easiest way for most of us to get our butts in orbit.
- 02:49 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Night-Shining Clouds are Getting Brighter The rare night-shining clouds seen in this photo are both forming more frequently and becoming brighter, trends that point to changes in the atmosphere linked to greenhouse gases.
- 02:35 UTC Spaceports Heros: The NASA Day of Remembrance NASA Day of Remembrance honors the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia crews, as well as other members of the NASA family who lost their lives supporting the agency's missions.
- 02:32 UTC East Central Minnes... Vasaloppet Here We Come! Each year in Mora there is a cross country ski race called the Vasaloppet and it is occasionally used as an olympic qualifier, so for our small community, it is ...
- 02:22 UTC Spaceports Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter @ Work! The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) continues to provide stunning images of the surface of The Red Planet as its conducts reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit. One of the ...
- 02:01 UTC Spaceports April 13, 2036: Our Day with Apophis Russian astronomers have predicted that asteroid Apophis may strike Earth on April 13, 2036."Apophis will approach Earth at a distance of 37,000-38,000 kilometers on April 13, 2029. Its likely collision ...
- 01:56 UTC Out of the Cradle “EML-1: The Next Logical Destination” Murphy, Ken “EML-1: The Next Logical Destination” The Space Review 01/24/2011 Librarian’s Note: A little something I put together to help explain how the first Earth-Moon Lagrange point is useful ...
- 01:52 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Explaining commercial spaceflight Dave Brody of Space.com does a nice job of explaining to a general audience what spaceflight commercialization is all about in this interview on Fox News: Video: Space Privatization Explained ...
- 01:40 UTC Spaceports India Space Launch Sector Lifted from US 'Entity List' Ex... The Obama Administration removed from the from the US Commerce Department's export control 'Entity List' nine Indian space and defense related companies including those from the Indian Space Research Organisation ...
- 01:28 UTC One Astronomer's No... The Face in your Bellybutton Somehow, I missed out on being part of an excellent experiment at SciOnline a few weeks ago. A group of scientists and science communicators have teamed up to explore the ...
- 01:16 UTC The Flame Trench Station crew prepares to grapple Japanese cargo ship A Japanese cargo ship launched Saturday is closing in on the International Space Station, where the crew is standing by to grapple the free-floating spacecraft with a robotic arm early ...
- 00:29 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... The Lurio Report: Vol.6 No.1 - ILDD “CLIN 1” Projects, CR... The latest issue of The Lurio Report is out. Here is the TOC: ILDD “CLIN 1” Projects, CRuSR, Spaceport America Vol. 6, No. 1, January 26, 2011 Conference Travel Feb. ...