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1 Jul 2010
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... NASA's External Tank for Final Shuttle Flight Gets New Or... NASA and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company will hold a ceremony at 9 a.m. CDT on Thursday, July 8, at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... NASA's Marshall Center to Host Mentor-Protégé Signing Agr... On July 7, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will host a Mentor-Protégé signing agreement between a NASA prime contractor and an Alabama small business.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Saturn System Moves Oxygen From Enceladus to Titan Complex interactions between Saturn and its satellites have led scientists using NASA's Cassini spacecraft to a comprehensive model that could explain how oxygen may end up on the surface of ...
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Thales Alenia Space delivers its two satellite payloads f... The two Thales Alenia Space-built payloads for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission have arrived at the Spaceport to begin their pre-launch checkout for a liftoff scheduled on August 3. Nilesat-201 ...
30 Jun 2010
- 17:58 UTC Penn State Astronom... AstroFest 2010: An Evening of Astronomy Activities and St... Penn State's popular "AstroFest" program, a four-night festival of astronomy and stargazing activities during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, will be held this year from Wednesday, July 7 ...
- 17:02 UTC Canada-France-Hawai... Leo Giant Gas Ring Explained The mysterious Leo giant gas ring explained by a billion year old collision between two galaxies
- 17:00 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... A Black Hole Slingshot? Evidence for a recoiling black hole has been found using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, XMM-Newton, the Hubble Space Telescope, and several ground-based telescopes.
- 13:19 UTC ESA Top News Call for Media: Rosetta flyby of asteroid Lutetia on 10 J... ESA PR-14 2010: The media are invited to ESA’s Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany to follow Rosetta’s encounter with asteroid Lutetia on 10 July, 18:00–23:00. The first images of ...
- 10:57 UTC Science and Technol... STFC says farewell to Anglo-Australian Observatory Following the UK's accession to the European Southern Observatory, STFC has now officially withdrawn from the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO)
- 10:00 UTC ESO Top News R Coronae Australis: A Cosmic Watercolour This magnificent view of the region around the star R Coronae Australis was created from images taken with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. ...
- 09:10 UTC ESA Top News Image of the day: Thinning ice sheets These animations of Antarctica (above) and Greenland, derived from the radar altimeter instrument on ESA’s Envisat satellite, illustrate the variations in the surface height on each ice sheet from 2003 ...
- 09:09 UTC ESA Top News SMOS shines at symposium Today, a focus at ESA's Living Planet Symposium is on the innovative SMOS mission, which recently became operational. Early results are proving very encouraging with its first observations due to ...
- 08:52 UTC ESA Top News Proba-2 tracks Sun surging into space Proba-2 is a small but innovative member of ESA’s spacecraft fleet, crammed with experimental technologies. In its first eight months of life it has already returned more than 90 000 ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Next International Space Station Residents Hold News Conf... The next trio of International Space Station residents will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, July 13, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... NASA Tests Engine Technology to Assist With Future Space ... NASA, in partnership with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR), recently completed the fourth and final series of tests on the Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine (CECE).
- 04:00 UTC Planetary Society P... News: Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Rests on Big... Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Rests on Big Find, Opportunity Finishes Half-Marathon on Way to Endeavour
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... The no. 2 Automated Transfer Vehicle begins its checkout The second Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for launch by Ariane 5 is now undergoing its final assembly and checkout in French Guiana. Named after German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler, ...
29 Jun 2010
- 23:00 UTC ESA Top News A European partnership for satellite-enabled services At a workshop last month in Stuttgart, 40 business professionals met with EC representatives to discuss which European policy measures could best support the use of information provided by satellites ...
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Mars Rover Seeing Destination in More Detail A super-resolution view toward Endeavour Crater from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows discernible features in the rim of that long-term destination.
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Alex Stirs Up the Gulf Tropical Storm Alex, soon to be a hurricane, churns its way through the western half of the Gulf of Mexico in this NASA infrared image taken Tuesday afternoon, June 29.
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Engineers Assess Dawn's Reaction Wheel Engineers are studying the reaction wheels on NASA's Dawn spacecraft after automatic sensors detected excess friction building up in one of them.
- 17:05 UTC UK Space Agency GOCE - the Apple in Newton's Eye The first gravity field model, created from the data supplied by GOCE - ESA's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite was shown this week at ESA's Living Planet ...
- 11:55 UTC ESA Top News MetOp-B is ESA test centre’s latest task of busy year A large section of the giant MetOp-B weather satellite has been lowered into ESA’s largest vacuum chamber at the ESTEC Test Centre in the Netherlands, ready for engineers to subject ...
- 07:36 UTC ESA Top News GOCE giving new insights into Earth’s gravity The first global gravity model based on GOCE satellite data has been presented at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium. ESA launched GOCE in March 2009 to map Earth's gravity with unprecedented ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... ESA To Set Tiny Hair-Like Webb Telescope Microshutters Tiny shutters as small as the width of a human hair are a key component in the James Webb Space Telescope, and they have now arrived at the European Space ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Issues Broad Agency Announcement For Heavy Lift Stud... NASA has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking proposals and industry input on heavy-lift system concepts and propulsion technology.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Data Sees Alex's Core Aligned, Growing Toward Hurric... Two instruments aboard NASA's Aqua satellite have provided some critical information to hurricane forecasters about tropical storm Alex as it threatens the northern Mexico and southern Texas coasts.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Helps Underserved School Receive Used Computers Times are tough, but none more so than for schools and their students.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Awards Architect - Engineer Services Contracts NASA has selected AECOM, Washington, D.C., along with HDR Architecture, Alexandria, Va., and SmithGroup, Inc, Washington, D.C., in response an architect and engineer services posting in March.
- 00:00 UTC James Webb Space Te... News Release: ESA To Set Tiny Hair-Like Webb Telescope Mi... Tiny little shutters as small as the width of a human hair are a key component in the James Webb Space Telescope's ability to see huge distances in the cosmos, ...
28 Jun 2010
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Satellite Adds Carbon Dioxide to its Repertoire A NASA-led team has expanded the growing global armada of remote sensing satellites capable of studying carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas driving changes in our climate.
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Instrument Will Identify Clues to Martian Past NASA's Curiosity rover, coming together for a late 2011 launch to Mars, has a newly installed component: a key onboard X-ray instrument for helping the mission achieve its goals.
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Voyager 2 at 12,000 Days: The Super-Marathon Continues NASA's plucky Voyager 2 spacecraft has hit a long-haul operations milestone today -- operating continuously for 12,000 days.
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... 'Hitchhiker' EPOXI: Next Stop, Comet Hartley 2 NASA's EPOXI spacecraft "hitched a ride" on Earth's gravity field and is now heading toward its appointment with comet Hartley 2 this fall.
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Kicks Off Student Summer of Innovation Program June ... NASA's Curiosity rover, coming together for a late 2011 launch to Mars, has a newly installed component: a key onboard X-ray instrument for helping the mission achieve its goals.
- 15:53 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Singularity University Welcomes 2010 Graduate Studies Pro... On June 19, Singularity University will welcome its second Graduate Studies Program class of 80 students to their summer home at the NASA Research Park for an intensive, ten-week program.
- 09:29 UTC UK Space Agency UK Space Agency helps launch space careers of UK graduate... UK graduates embark on a two month Space Studies Programme at the International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg.
- 09:09 UTC German Aerospace Ce... Seven years of Mars Express – unusual structures at Magel... In the southwest of the Tharsis volcanic region on Mars is the large impact crater Magellan, named after the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), carried ...
- 08:00 UTC ESA Space Science Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars When Mars Express set sail for the crater named after Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, it found a windblown plateau and mysterious rocky mounds nearby.
- 07:36 UTC ESA Top News ESA's biggest scientific symposium gets underway More than 1200 scientists from around the world have gathered in Bergen, Norway, for ESA’s week-long Living Planet Symposium to present their latest findings on Earth's environment and climate using ...
- 07:00 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator "IKAROS" Su... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) took images of the deployed solar sail of the Small So
- 05:00 UTC Southwest Research ... SwRI's HEDGE technology eliminates low-speed pre-ignition... Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has successfully demonstrated that its HEDGE (High-Efficiency, Dilute Gasoline Engine) technology, using cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and advanced ignition systems, suppresses low-speed pre-ignition in turbocharged ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA and International Space Agencies Meet to Discuss Hum... NASA senior managers met with their counterparts representing other space agencies at the National Harbor, Md., on June 23, to discuss globally-coordinated human and robotic space exploration.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Science Visualizer Creates Earth from Hundreds of Im... At Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio, Helen-Nicole Kostis works as part of a team that takes raw scientific data and translates it into stunning imagery.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Plays Key Exploration Role In New Administration Spa... NASA Plays Key Exploration Role In New Administration Space Policy
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Invites Journalists, Video Game Experts To Review On... News media and video game reviewers have an opportunity to preview a new NASA video game, Moonbase Alpha, in advance of its worldwide release.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Building of Sustainability Base Construction of the new Sustainability Base collaborative support facility, expected to become the highest-performing building in the federal government,...
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Satellite operator ARSAT selects Arianespace to launch Ar... Arianespace has been chosen to orbit the first geostationary satellite built in Argentina, Arsat-1 for ARSAT (Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales Sociedad Anonima), following an international competitive bid. An Ariane ...
27 Jun 2010
- 13:06 UTC ESA Top News Ariane 5’s second launch of 2010 Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place the Arabsat-5A telecommunications satellite and the multi-mission COMS satellite into their ...
25 Jun 2010
- 19:06 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Earth to Lend Helping Hand to Comet Craft NASA's Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft will fly past Earth this Sunday, June 27.