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20 Dec 2010
- 15:26 UTC The Flame Trench Discovery set to roll off launch pad during lunar light s... NASA is preparing to roll shuttle Discovery back to the Vehicle Assembly Building early on the first day of winter under the pale, multi-colored light of a total lunar eclipse. ...
- 15:18 UTC Weirdwarp A Good Year for Japan’s Space Program Japan has not put a lot of money into their space program but it has nevertheless come up with some good results. JAXA (Japan’s space agency) has had a few ...
- 15:07 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Lunar Eclipse to Turn Moon Red As a lunar eclipse coincides with winter solstice, stargazers can watch the moon turn pink, perhaps even red.
- 15:00 UTC The Space Review Rocket to nowhere The new NASA authorization act directs the space agency to develop a massive heavy-lift launch vehicle in the next six years. Lou Friedman warns that without a specific mission and ...
- 14:59 UTC The Space Review Space budgets are made to be broken Last month NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope will require more money and more time before it will be ready to launch. Todd Neff notes that cost and ...
- 14:58 UTC The Space Review Securing space security Orbital debris, satellite collisions, and ASAT tests have increased the awareness of the need of measures to preserve the safety of operations in Earth orbit. Jeff Foust reports on some ...
- 14:57 UTC The Space Review Going somewhere Out There: revisiting Defying Gravity one... The TV series "Defying Gravity" went off the air after less than a season, leaving interested viewers wondering what would have happened next on this near future space exploration show. ...
- 14:56 UTC The Space Review Review: How I Killed Pluto The controversy over the "demotion" of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet is now over four years old, but new viewpoints on the subject continue to emerge. Jeff Foust reviews ...
- 14:56 UTC Spaceports European Expand Earth Remote Sensing As a note, NASA and the University of Colorado is undertaking a new study of how the sun may impact Earth climate change in an acknowledgment of the many variables ...
- 14:23 UTC Universe Today Numerous Companies Propose Possible ‘Space Taxi’ Once, the field had only had few entries, but now there are several companies vying to send American astronauts into orbit. With NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program, or CCDev 2, ...
- 14:18 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... The Space Show this week The Space Show this week: 1. Monday, December 20 , 2010, 2-3:30 PM PST. We welcome Dr. Al Koller of SpaceTEC to the show. Dr. Koller founded SpaceTEC - the ...
- 14:18 UTC Astroblog Don't Forget the Total Lunar Eclipse this Tuesday (21 De... Eastern horizon as seen from Brisbane at 7:45 pm AEST on Tuesday December 21. The Moon has risen in total eclipse.Don't forget, this Tuesday Australians and New Zealanders will see ...
- 14:07 UTC Dear Astronomer No, not THAT Eclipse… The night of Dec 20th/Early Morning of Dec. 21st marks a total Lunar eclipse, which weather permitting will be visible across North America. The eclipse “starts” at 12:30 PM EST ...
- 14:04 UTC Astroblog Update on comet-like asteroid 596 Scheila The coma surrounding 596 Scheila imaged with global rent-a-scope G-2 instrument on 14-12-10. Image is a stack of 9 x 60 sec exposures stacked in ImageJ, then SUMMED, inverted, contrast ...
- 14:00 UTC NASA Watch Senate CR Proposal Is Not Good News For NASA Senate Appropriations Committee: Summary of Continuing Resolution through March 4, 2011 "Under the CR, funding would continue at FY 2010 enacted levels for most programs." Senate Nears Deal on Funding ...
- 14:00 UTC Parabolic Arc Futron Report: America, Canada Do Well in Optimizing Spac... FUTRON PRESS RELEASE Futron has released new analysis that benchmarks space technology among the top 10 leading space powers, which identifies specific technologies where countries optimize their economic and industrial ...
- 13:47 UTC EAAE News The International Year of Astronomy 2009 Secretariat clos... Source: IAU The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has revealed today that the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) Secretariat will finish its activities on 31 December 2010, following three and ...
- 13:46 UTC Centauri Dreams The Problem with Speed
- 13:46 UTC Centauri Dreams The Problem with Speed We spend a lot of time talking about how to get an interstellar probe up to speed. But what happens if we do achieve a cruise speed of 12 percent ...
- 13:34 UTC Armagh Observatory Childrens Art On Display In Armagh City Library An exhibition of amazing space paintings made by children who took part in the OASES project this autumn will be on display in the Armagh City Library over Christmas and ...
- 13:33 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... See The Most Detailed Topographic Map of the Moon Researchers have used NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to create the most complete maps of the lunar surface. Read the full article here
- 13:30 UTC Bad Astronomy Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2010 – Runners Up When I made my Top 14 Astronomy Pictures of 2010, it was really tough cutting some out. This is a gallery of the images that, for whatever reasons, I decided ...
- 13:27 UTC Planck satellite ou... Planck image voted 7th best science story of 2010 The release of Planck's first image of the whole sky has been voted the 7th best science story of 2010 by Discover Magazine. read more
- 13:21 UTC Coalition for Space... CSExtra – Monday, December 20, 2010 To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject ...
- 13:00 UTC Parabolic Arc Suborbital Spotlight: Armadillo’s Super Mod, Tube and SOS... NASA’s Office of Chief Technologist has published detailed information about suborbital vehicles that will be available beginning in 2011 for researchers to conduct microgravity experiments. The vehicles are being built ...
- 12:00 UTC Pillow Astronaut भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान संगठन - ISRO Monday Space Map update! This week I learned the Devanāgarī alphabet for Hindi, and mapped all the sites for the ISRO, or the Indian Space Research Organization. Once again, while ...
- 12:00 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA to Help Guide Public Through Lunar Eclipse NASA LUNAR ECLIPSE UPDATE NASA has planned various ways to help the public enjoy the total lunar eclipse on the night of Dec. 20 to 21. Astronomers at NASA’s Marshall ...
- 11:48 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Tanking, Rollback, Eclipse and Measuring - SpacePod The ... Tanking, Rollback, Eclipse and Measuring - SpacePod The latest SpacePod from http://www.spacevidcast.com/
- 11:00 UTC PeteUplink's Univer... Astronomy Picture of the Day A Lunar Eclipse on Solstice.... Astronomy Picture of the Day A Lunar Eclipse on Solstice Day Image Credit: Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light) Explanation: Sometime after sunset tonight, the Moon will go dark. This total ...
- 10:39 UTC In the Dark The STFC Delivery Plan Excuse the very quick and sketchy post on such an important topic, but I’ve got a lot of things to do before the dreaded Christmas lunch. This morning the allocations ...
- 10:21 UTC The e-Astronomer The Gaskell affair Yesterday I saw a Twitter link to a New York Times article about an astronomer suing the University of Kentucky, claiming he was rejected as a job applicant because of ...
- 10:21 UTC Cumbrian Sky TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE on Dec 21st visible from Cumbria (and... There will be a TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE tomorrow morning, visible across Cumbria and the whole of the UK (and other parts of the world too, of course). Here are the ...
- 10:12 UTC EAAE News Kepler Mission experiences problems Source: NASA/Kepler Artist's impression about the Kepler mission. Image credit: NASA. During a regularly scheduled contact with the Kepler spacecraft on Dec. 13, 2010, the project team discovered Kepler had ...
- 08:48 UTC Mars and Me Spirit Sol 698 I love this rover. I really, really do.I'm up at 05:45, and the first thing I do is log in and check the data from home. No images. That's just ...
- 08:40 UTC Space Fellowship This Week On The Space Show The Space Show, hosted by David Livingston under www.TheSpaceShow.com, will have the following guests this week: 1. Monday, December 20, 2010, 2-3:30 PM PST (22-23:30 GMT) Dr. Al Koller, founder ...
- 08:07 UTC Spacevidcast Space Questions: Can Astronauts Survive Reentry in the Pa... Just as a Hubble Servicing Mission finishes, the astronauts, happy about being able to rest inside the Space Shuttle, find that the airlock won’t properly re-pressurize. What happens next? Can ...
- 08:05 UTC The Discovery Enter... Carl Sagan Tribute Series Today marks the fourteenth anniversary of Carl Sagan’s untimely passing on December 20th, 1996.Dr. Carl Sagan was a highly accomplished luminary in the field of science. He was a highly ...
- 08:00 UTC Meteorwatch Total Lunar Eclipse on the Winter Solstice This Tuesday 21 December 2010 is the Winter Solstice, and in addition there will be a total lunar eclipse, occurring at sunrise in the UK. Total Lunar Eclipse, image by ...
- 07:12 UTC My Big Fat Planet The AGU giant Back in town
- 07:12 UTC My Big Fat Planet The AGU giant Back in town
- 06:43 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: CR update; Taurus II engine tests Jeff Foust reports that it doesn't appear that NASA will get any special consideration in the continuing resolution for the Federal budget: After the short-term CR, a longer one - ...
- 06:37 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... How Earth s Orbital Shift Shaped the Sahara A change in the Earth s orbit, many scientists believe, transformed the Green Sahara into what is now the largest desert on the planet. While scientists are still trying to ...
- 06:27 UTC HobbySpace RLV Spac... Briefs: New angle on lunar cave; New Mars mission options Bob Zimmerman examines a lunar cave from a side angle: Looking into a lunar cave - Behind The Black - Dec.19.10. === Ray at Vision Restoration blog discusses Mars mission ...
- 06:11 UTC HobbySpace Blog AMSAT & ISS amateur radio news Go to AMSAT News for the latest headlines about developments in amateur and student satellites and for updates about amateur radio on the ISS : * Straight Key Night * ...
- 06:01 UTC Spacevidcast Tanking, Rollback, Eclipse and Measuring – SpacePod 2010.... On November 5th, 2010 NASA scrubbed the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery due to a Hydrogen leak. At first it looked like this was just another GUCP issue which vents ...
- 05:00 UTC Spaceports The Lunar Eclipse Comes in Hours Now Everyone knows that "the moon on the breast of new-fallen snow gives the luster of mid-day to objects below." That is, except during a lunar eclipse.The luster will be a ...
- 05:00 UTC The Year in Space December 20, 2010 - A Peek at the Pelican The Week in SpaceDecember 20-26, 2010 A Peek at the Pelican The Pelican Nebula, or IC 5070, is a large emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan. In ...
- 04:08 UTC Phil's Astronomy Bl... Revisiting the Geminids This picture is really what I was aiming for. I got impatient and moved my camera around, so couldn't finish off a more complete star trail. Anyway, this about 20 ...
- 04:01 UTC The Sky Above Gift of a Star Plotting the Geminids by Erika Valdueza I observed the Geminid meteor shower at the Manila Observatory from 9:31pm of Dec. 14, 2010 to 1:36am of Dec.15, 2010. I also continued ...
- 04:01 UTC The Sky Above Gift of a Star From the Mind Museum: This Holiday, Set our Sky Ablaze with the Names of your Family and Friends. From the Mind Museum: This Holiday, Set our Sky Ablaze with the ...