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11 Jun 2010
- 12:43 UTC Science and Technol... News from Science Board - June 2010 Science Board held its most recent meeting on 2nd - 3rd June 2010 at the Cockcroft Institute in Daresbury.
- 12:40 UTC UK Space Agency It's go Mars - UK Space Agency funds international Mars R... It's go Mars - UK Space Agency funds international Mars rover
- 12:26 UTC German Aerospace Ce... Knowledge for tomorrow: DLR exhibits at ILA 2010 The innovations and results showcased in DLR exhibits at ILA show that the effort is on to improve daily life, in addition to flying. Some exhibits on display are just ...
- 10:01 UTC Herschel News Herschel and Planck win Grand Prize Thumbnail: Herschel and its sister-mission, Planck, have been awarded the "Grand Prix 2010" for their "outstanding space endeavours"
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News University Students And Professors Ready To "Rock On" Wit... University students and professors from across the country and Puerto Rico will converge on NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia this month to learn how to build small experiments that ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Ames Welcomes Summer Interns from United Arab Emirat... NASA is cutting edge for more than just its research development; it also is pushing the envelope for its student internship programs.
- 01:00 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator 'IKAROS' Su... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) began to deploy the solar sail of the Small Solar Powe
- 00:00 UTC Surrey Satellite Te... SSTL celebrates 25 years of innovation in space Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) celebrates 25 years of space innovation today. The British company was incorporated on 11th June 1985 to commercialise small satellite research from the University of ...
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Ariane 5's launch pace for 2010 is ramped up Arianespace is maintaining its 2010 mission pace with three heavy-lift Ariane 5s now at the Spaceport in French Guiana. The company is targeting a total of six to seven missions ...
- 00:00 UTC International Centr... Natural energy to help power exploration of the Universe The Federal Government has announced that the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) and the Pawsey High-Performance Computing Centre for SKA Science will receive $47.3 million for the development of solar and ...
10 Jun 2010
- 19:29 UTC Gemini Observatory A Ceres-like Dwarf Planet Swallowed by a White Dwarf Star Figure 1: Photometric measurements using NIRI in the infrared, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the optical, and GALEX in the ultraviolet compared to the best models of the star ...
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA and DLR Sign Agreement to Continue Grace Mission Thr... NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and German Aerospace Center Executive Board Chairman Johann-Dietrich Wörner signed an agreement to extend the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission.
- 18:00 UTC ESO Top News Exoplanet Caught on the Move For the first time, astronomers have been able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moves from one side of its host star to the other. The ...
- 17:26 UTC Science and Technol... Are we alone? New radio telescope 'to potentially search ... Students, lecturers and researchers are helping scientists install the first major radio telescope in Britain for many decades at STFC's Chilbolton Observatory in Hampshire this week (June 7-11).
- 13:42 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... Wien hosts 53rd Copuos session The fifty-third session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space will be held from 9-18 June 2010 at the United Nation Office at Vienna, Vienna International Center, ...
- 13:13 UTC German Aerospace Ce... NASA and DLR sign agreement to continue GRACE mission thr... NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and German Aerospace Center (DLR) Executive Board Chairman Johann-Dietrich Wörner signed an agreement on 10 June 2010 during a bilateral meeting at ILA Berlin Air ...
- 11:10 UTC German Aerospace Ce... DLR at ILA: from aircraft, to robots and alternative avia... DLR research, innovation, its aircraft, and original products are out in force at the Berlin air show, ILA 2010. This gallery showcases DLR research and innovation, including images of aircraft ...
- 09:00 UTC ESA Space Science Herschel and Planck win the French Grand Prix Yesterday in Paris, ESA’s Herschel and Planck science missions were honoured by the French Association for Aeronautics and Astronautics. The association’s Grand Prix 2010 award for “outstanding space endeavours” was ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Model Helps Search for Moon Dust Fountains Fountains of electric dust may be responsible for a mysterious glow seen on the lunar horizon during the Apollo 17 and other missions.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Model Helps Search for Moon Dust Fountains Fountains of electric dust may be responsible for a mysterious glow seen on the lunar horizon during the Apollo 17 and other missions.
9 Jun 2010
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting telescopic camera include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges and steep cliffs.
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... A Close-up View of Codependent Stellar Living This image shows the symbiotic system known as CH Cyg, located only about 800 light years from Earth.
- 07:43 UTC ESA Top News ESA astronauts at ILA in Berlin Ten past and present ESA astronauts will be at the ILA international aerospace show at Berlin’s Schoenefeld on Friday 11 June. At the same time, ESA will continue its presence ...
- 07:00 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Asteroid Explore "HAYABUSA" (MUSES-C) Completed... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that TCM-4 operation was succes
- 06:30 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Launch of the First Quasi-Zenith Satellite 'MIC... Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to an
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Astronomers to Observe Hayabusa Homecoming A group of astronomers from NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other organizations are flying to the other side of the world for a front row seat and ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Picks 18 Small Business Tech Transfer Projects For C... NASA has selected 18 innovative technology proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards in the Small Business Technology Transfer program, or "STTR." The selected projects have a total value ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Continues 18 Small Business Tech Transfer Projects NASA has selected 18 innovative technology proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards in the Small Business Technology Transfer program, or "STTR."
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Helps in Upcoming Asteroid Mission Homecoming A Japanese spacecraft will return a capsule to Earth on June 13 in a uninhabited area of South Australia. NASA scientists and engineers have played a contributing role in the ...
8 Jun 2010
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Helps in Upcoming Asteroid Mission Homecoming A Japanese spacecraft will return a capsule to Earth on June 13 in a uninhabited area of South Australia. NASA scientists and engineers have played a contributing role in the ...
- 14:33 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... Two papers hint at possible chemical signatures of life o... Two new papers based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft scrutinize the complex chemical activity on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. While non-biological chemistry offers one possible explanation, some ...
- 14:27 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... Mars 500 has started Mars500, the first full-length simulated mission to Mars, started today in Moscow at 13:49 local time (11:49 CET), when the six-man crew entered their ‘spacecraft’ and the hatch was closed. ...
- 10:20 UTC UK Space Agency Inmarsat wins UK's top engineering prize Inmarsat wins UK's top engineering prize
- 10:00 UTC ESO Top News New National Telescope at La Silla A new robotic telescope has had first light at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, in Chile. TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) is devoted to the study of planetary systems ...
- 08:01 UTC German Aerospace Ce... Knowledge for tomorrow: ILA 2010, Berlin – DLR innovation... A service robot that can be deployed in space or on Earth, the first aircraft capable of taking off using fuel-cell power alone and research aircraft that analyse our atmosphere ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News New York Students Connect With International Space Statio... Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, orbiting 220 miles above Earth, will discuss living and working in space with students gathered at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, N.Y., on ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Invites the Public to Picture Their "Face in Space" NASA is inviting members of the public to send electronic images of their faces into orbit aboard one of the final remaining space shuttle missions.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Icebreaker Voyage To Probe Climate Change Impact On ... NASA's first dedicated oceanographic field campaign goes to sea June 15 to take an up-close look at how changing conditions in the Arctic are affecting the ocean's chemistry and ecosystems ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News First NASA It Summit To Gather Industry Leaders And Explo... NASA's first Information Technology (IT) Summit will bring together government and industry leaders to explore the outer reaches of information technology.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News “NASA Launchpad” Tv Episode Captures Emmy Award A NASA video program aimed at helping high school students learn more about science, technology, engineering and mathematics(STEM) has won an Emmy, one of the best-known awards in regional television.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Awards Launch Services Contract For IRIS Mission NASA has selected Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., to launch the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph spacecraft known as IRIS.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Awards Contract For Sponsored Research And Education... NASA awards Smart Global Solutions JV LLC of Silver Spring, Md., the Sponsored Research and Education Support Services (SRESS) contract.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA CTO for IT Honored by CIO Magazine Chris C. Kemp, NASA's chief technology officer for Information Technology and ‘super star’ of IT innovation for the agency, has been recognized with CIO Magazine's "CIO 100" award for his ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA's FASTSAT Readies for Shipment to Alaska NASA successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review of the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite (FASTSAT), a spacecraft bus that will carry six experiment payloads to low-Earth orbit.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... NASA's FASTSAT Satellite Readies for Shipment to Alaska NASA has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review of FASTSAT, a small, microsatellite class spacecraft bus that will carry six experiment payloads to low-Earth orbit.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Kids to Build Space Ships, Float on Giant Hockey Puck, Se... Team members' children from the Marshall Center will participate in fun and educational activities during the annual "Take Our Children to Work Day" June 10.
7 Jun 2010
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Fires Past Record for Speed Change NASA's ion-propelled Dawn spacecraft has eclipsed the record for velocity change produced by a spacecraft's engines.
- 11:31 UTC UK Space Agency European Satellite Navigation Competition European Satellite Navigation Competition
- 04:00 UTC Planetary Society P... Press Release: Bill Nye Signs on as Planetary Society's N... Bill Nye Signs on as Planetary Society's New Executive Director
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Tweaks Tech Toolbox to Capture Tricky Rotor Results "Smooth" and "quiet" are two words not usually associated with a helicopter ride, but NASA is working to change that.