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31 Jan 2015
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Launches Groundbreaking Soil Moisture Mapping Satell... NASA successfully launched its first Earth satellite designed to collect global observations of the vital soil moisture hidden just beneath our feet. The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory, a ...
- 07:00 UTC United Launch Allia... United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches Important Ea... A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) payload for NASA lifted off from Space Launch Complex-2 at 6:22 a.m. PST on Jan. ...
- 00:15 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Next Solar Maximum may be Safest Time for Manned Missions... Recent trends in solar activity show that the next solar maximum may be unique opportunity to send humans into deep space. Our expanding knowledge of the space environment is a ...
30 Jan 2015
- 23:50 UTC NASA Breaking News Astronauts Speak with University of California Students f... Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering students at the University of California, Davis will have a rare opportunity to speak with Expedition 42 crew members currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) ...
- 23:48 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Launch of NASA Soil Moisture Mapping Mission Set for Satu... NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission (SMAP) now is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California at 6:20 a.m. PST (9:20 a.m. EST) Saturday, Jan. 31.
- 23:02 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA TV Coverage Set for NOAA DSCOVR Launch Feb. 8 The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is scheduled to launch at 6:10 p.m. EST Sunday, Feb. 8 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida ...
- 21:48 UTC NASA: Kepler News a... NASA Supercomputer Assists the Hunt for Exomoons Artist's impression of a hypothetical Earth-like moon around a Saturn-like exoplanet. A team of 21st-century explorers working for the Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) project, based at Harvard University, ...
- 20:33 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Agricultural Fires Stretch Completely Across Africa Four different passes by the Aqua satellite over the course of a day results in this stitched together image of the fires that span across central Africa. The polar orbit ...
- 20:15 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Starry night: brushstrokes of dust in the Milky Way January 30, 2015 - The flowing textures and vivid colours in this striking image call to mind Van Gogh's most famous painting. In spite of its impressionistic beauty, though, this ...
- 19:11 UTC Science@NASA The Strange Way Fluids Slosh on … ional Space Station Researchers are using a pair of robots to examine the strange way fluids slosh and bubble on the International Space Station
- 17:00 UTC ESA Space Science Planck: gravitational waves remain elusive Despite earlier reports of a possible detection, a joint analysis of data from ESA’s Planck satellite and the ground-based BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments has found no conclusive evidence of ...
- 13:55 UTC ESA Top News Week In Images Our week through the lens: 26-30 January 2015
- 09:05 UTC ESA Top News Corsican waters Earth observation image of the week: the Mediterranean Sea’s most mountainous island, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
29 Jan 2015
- 23:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... SMAP Earth Mission Launch No Earlier Than Saturday The launch of NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory has been delayed to a targeted launch date of Jan. 31.
- 20:39 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Invites Media, Social Media to Major Space Launch Sy... Media and social media followers are invited to watch as NASA tests the largest, most powerful booster ever built March 11 at ATK Aerospace System's test facility in Promontory, Utah. ...
- 18:28 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA TV Coverage Reset for Launch of Newest Earth-Observi... NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive mission (SMAP) launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, now is scheduled for 9:20 a.m. EST (6:20 a.m. PST) Friday, Jan. 30, with a three-minute ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News UPDATE -- NASA Hosts Media, Social Media for “State of NA... NASA centers across the country are opening their doors Monday, Feb. 2 to media and social media for “State of NASA” events, unique opportunities for a behind-the-scenes look at the ...
- 15:00 UTC Interactions.org Ne... Interactions.org Newsdigest 29 January 2015 New origin of universe model pours water on Big Bang theory -- How 'second sound' helps the Large Hadron Collider work -- The most dangerous ideas in science -- Weird ...
- 15:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Photo Release: The tell-tale signs of a galactic merger The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking view of spiral galaxy NGC 7714. This galaxy has drifted too close to another nearby galaxy and the dramatic interaction has ...
- 15:00 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Hubble Spies a Loopy Galaxy Get larger image formats At first glance, galaxy NGC 7714 resembles a partial golden ring from an amusement park ride. This unusual structure is a river of Sun-like stars that ...
- 14:53 UTC Harvard-Smithsonian... CAT Scan of Nearby Supernova Remnant Reveals Frothy Inter... Cassiopeia A, or Cas A for short, is one of the most well studied supernova remnants in our galaxy. But it still holds major surprises.
- 14:45 UTC ESA Top News IXV packed and ready ESA's IXV spaceplane is a snug fit inside Vega's protective fairing and will soon be attached to the rocket in preparation for launch on 11 February
- 14:00 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Friday, 30 January, at 10:00 CET for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. Ahead of World Wetlands Day, this week’s programme features the Ramsar sites on the island ...
- 12:52 UTC ASTRON LOFAR’s record-sharp image gives astronomers a new view ... An international team of astronomers, including ASTRON scientists from ASTRON, used the giant radio telescope LOFAR to create the sharpest astronomical image ever taken at very long radio wavelengths. Made ...
- 11:00 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... Rosetta exhibition The Rosetta mission and Philae’s historic landing on the comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s surface will be the main themes for an exhibition that will be held in Faenza, at the Palazzo ...
- 00:11 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA Observes Day of Remembrance NASA's Day of Remembrance honors members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery. NASA is paying tribute to the crews of ...
28 Jan 2015
- 23:01 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Releases 2014 Annu... The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, has issued its 2014 annual report examining NASA's safety performance over the past year and ...
- 21:40 UTC NASA: Kepler News a... Astronomers Discover Ancient System with Five Small Plane... Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered a system of five small planets dating back to when the Milky Way Galaxy was a youthful two billion years old.
- 20:46 UTC American Astronomic... Why You Should Participate in CVD & Advocate for Astronom... This guest post comes from Kelly Korreck, an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory with a research focus on shock physics, solar instrumentation, and space weather. Kelly participated in our ...
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's SMAP Earth Mission Awaits Launch NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission is set to launch Thursday, Jan. 29, at 6:20 a.m. PST (9:20 a.m. EST) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- 19:50 UTC Carnegie Institutio... Missing link in metal physics explains Earth’s magnetic f... Washington, D.C.— Earth’s magnetic field is crucial for our existence, as it shields the life on our planet’s surface from deadly cosmic rays. It is generated by turbulent motions of ...
- 18:46 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Cassini Catches Titan Naked in the Solar Wind Researchers studying data from NASA's Cassini mission have observed that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves much like Venus, Mars or a comet when exposed to the raw power of the ...
- 16:21 UTC American Astronomic... Please Consider Becoming a Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectur... The AAS Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectureship Program is a gem in the crown of the Society’s education efforts. Its purpose is to bring the excitement of modern astronomy and astrophysics ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Hosts Media, Social Media for “State of NASA” Events... NASA centers across the country are opening their doors Monday, Feb. 2 to media and social media for “State of NASA” events, unique opportunities for a behind-the-scenes look at the ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Northeastern U.S. After the Snow This image from the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite shows the U.S. Northeast and the surrounding area on Jan. 28, 2015, following intense winter weather in New England earlier ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Measured Nor'easter's Powerful Winds from Space When blizzard warnings were in effect in New England, NASA's ISS-RapidScat instrument provided forecasters with wind speed data on the nor'easter that had hurricane-force wind gusts.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... GPM Sees Nor'easter Dump Snow on New England On Jan. 26 the Global Precipitation Measurement mission's Core Observatory flew over the Nor'easter that dumped snow on New England.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... ASSP Sounding Rocket Launches Successfully from Alaska Rocket #5 - the Aural Spatial Structures Probe - was successfully launched at 5:41 a.m. EST on Jan. 28, 2015, from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska.
- 15:18 UTC American Astronomic... An Update on the AAS/IOP Publishing eBook Program This announcement is posted on behalf of our partners at IOP Publishing: Following the announcement in December about the exciting new partnership between the AAS and IOP Publishing to launch ...
- 13:35 UTC ESA Top News Cubes with a view Technology image of the week: Next year this ESA three-unit CubeSat will be probing largely unexplored layers of Earth's atmosphere
- 11:20 UTC Science and Technol... London Photography Exhibition 'Light Works' Launches Inte... Images that define what we can see at the largest and smallest scales, including some that are normally invisible to the human eye, are just part of a new exhibition ...
- 11:00 UTC ESO Top News The Mouth of the Beast Like the gaping mouth of a gigantic celestial creature, the cometary globule CG4 glows menacingly in this new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Although it appears to be big ...
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Europe's IXV spaceplane is "packed" for its February 11 s... Payload preparations are moving forward for next month's Vega flight, with its Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) passenger now integrated in the lightweight launcher's payload fairing.
27 Jan 2015
- 22:25 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Video: Back To The Moon For Good – The New Space Race Narrated by Tim Allen (voice of Buzz Lightyear), this is a complete behind-the-scenes feature on the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE. Google Lunar XPRIZE movie about going back to the ...
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Building a Better Weather Forecast? SMAP May Help Soil moisture data from NASA's SMAP mission will open a path to improved weather forecasts.
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... SMAP Readiness Review Gives 'Go' for Launch Managers from NASA and United Launch Alliance (ULA) met Tues., Jan. 27, at Vandenberg Air Force Base to assess the status of NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive spacecraft and the ...
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Building a Better Weather Forecast? SMAP May Help Soil moisture data from NASA's SMAP mission will open a path to improved weather forecasts.
- 20:01 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... SMAP Readiness Review Gives 'Go' for Launch Managers from NASA and United Launch Alliance (ULA) met Tues., Jan. 27, at Vandenberg Air Force Base to assess the status of NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive spacecraft and the ...
- 19:30 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... JPL: Citizen Scientists Lead Astronomers to Mystery Objec... "Hmm, what's that?" Simply by asking the question, volunteers have led researchers to illuminate a little-known stage of massive star formation.
- 19:29 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Citizen Scientists Lead Astronomers to Mystery Objects in... "Hmm, what's that?" Simply by asking the question, volunteers have led researchers to illuminate a little-known stage of massive star formation.