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18 Nov 2009
- 07:37 UTC Arianespace Press R... ARIANE 5 CLEARS INITIAL BUILD-UP PHASE FOR FINAL FLIGHT O... Arianespace was founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch services provider.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington.
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest NASA’s premiere supercomputer located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the sixth spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Space Shuttle Pilot Set to Talk With Tennessee Students f... Congressman Bart Gordon and Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville will host a live conversation between more than 120 students and NASA astronaut Barry E. Wilmore on Sunday, Nov. 22.
- 00:30 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... Selection of Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide as a Member of the... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) would like to announce that Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide
- 00:00 UTC International Centr... Early expansion and astronomical ambitions The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (or ICRAR) is only three months old but like the early Universe it’s already rapidly expanding.
17 Nov 2009
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Tilt Parameters End First Extrication Drive The preliminary results from the first extrication drive for Spirit on Sol 2088 (Nov. 17, 2009) indicate the rover stopped less than 1 second after it began, sensing more vehicle ...
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's Spitzer Sees The Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Ey... NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting ready to roll.
- 19:00 UTC NAOJ Top News Science Results - Maps Unveil the Source of Starburst Gal... A research group at Kyoto University has discovered that shocks are the primary energy sources that excite the galactic wind region of starburst galaxy NGC 253.
- 12:26 UTC Science and Technol... Ticking stellar time bomb identified - astronomers find p... Using ESO's Very Large Telescope and its ability to obtain images as sharp as if taken from space, astronomers have made the first time-lapse movie of an unusual shell of ...
- 12:00 UTC Jodrell Bank Centre... Ticking Stellar Time Bomb Identified Using ESO's Very Large Telescope and its ability to obtain images as sharp as if taken from space, astronomers have made the first time-lapse movie of an unusual shell of ...
- 11:00 UTC ESO Top News Ticking Stellar Time Bomb Identified ESO 43/09 - Science Release: Using ESO's Very Large Telescope and its ability to obtain images as sharp as if taken from space, astronomers have made the first time-lapse movie ...
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's Wise Gets Ready to Survey the Whole Sky NASA'S Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting ready to roll.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA and Microsoft Allow Earthlings to Become Martians NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars.
- 00:00 UTC NAOJ Top News Maps Unveil the Source of Starburst Galaxy's Winds A research group at Kyoto University has discovered that shocks are the primary energy sources that excite the galactic wind region of starburst galaxy NGC 253. Their images of the ...
16 Nov 2009
- 23:14 UTC ESA Top News ESA Bulletin 140 (November 2009) This issue celebrates the anniversary of the beginning of Europe’s independent adventure into space, the first launch of Ariane 1 in 1979. Read the Bulletin and other publications online, with ...
- 19:42 UTC German Aerospace Ce... Space Shuttle launched – Atlantis carrying 14-ton payload... With the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center (Florida) on 16 November 2009 at 14:28 local time (20:28 Central European Time/CET), the orbiter has begun a ...
- 17:00 UTC National Radio Astr... Close-Up Movie Shows Hidden Details in the Birth of Super... Cambridge, MA - The constellation of Orion is a hotbed of massive star formation, most prominently in the Great Nebula that sits in Orion's sword. The glowing gas of the ...
- 17:00 UTC National Radio Astr... Record-Breaking Radio Astronomy Project to Measure Sky wi... Astronomers will tie together the largest collection of the world's radio telescopes ever assembled to work as a single observing tool in a project aimed at improving the precision of ...
- 14:12 UTC Harvard-Smithsonian... Close-Up Movie Shows Hidden Details in the Birth of Super... November 16, 2009: The constellation of Orion is a hotbed of massive star formation, most prominently in the Great Nebula that sits in Orion's sword. The glowing gas of the ...
- 08:52 UTC ESA Top News Swirling clouds over the South Pacific Rosetta's OSIRIS imaging system spotted an anticyclone over the South Pacific on the morning of 13 November. The images show the scene roughly as a human eye would see it.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Media Invited to International Earth Observation Briefing... The United States is hosting the sixth plenary meeting of the Group on Earth Observations, or GEO, this week at the Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, in Washington.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Hosts Native Peoples Workshop to Study Climate Chang... NASA will hold a second national strategies workshop to examine the impacts of climate change and extreme weather variability on native peoples and their homelands.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's Shuttle Atlantis Headed for Delivery Stop at Space... Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began an 11-day delivery flight to the International Space Station on Monday with a 2:28 p.m. EST launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center ...
- 00:00 UTC Surrey Satellite Te... Sri Lanka signs agreement with SSTL for space capability The Director General of the Sri Lankan Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Priyantha Kariyapperuma and Professor Sir Martin Sweeting of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), signed a landmark agreement today. This agreement ...
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... ARIANESPACE RECEIVES THE SEVENTH ARIANE 5 FOR LAUNCH IN 2... The Ariane 5 GS version for Arianespace's upcoming flight is now in the Spaceport's Final Assembly Building following delivery by prime contractor EADS Astrium Space Transportation. This launcher will orbit ...
15 Nov 2009
- 11:00 UTC Herschel News Herschel on air Thumbnail: Key members of the SPIRE instrument team have contributed to a two-part documentary on Herschel for BBC Radio 4. The SPIRE Instrument Key members of the SPIRE team, including ...
13 Nov 2009
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Rosetta Completes Final Earth Flyby On its way to a 2014 rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, with JPL instruments on board, flew past Earth today to pick up energy.
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Ghostly "Spokes" Puff Out From Saturn's Rings Massive, bright clouds of tiny ice particles hover above the darkened rings of Saturn in an image captured by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 22, 2009, around the time of ...
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Dawn Enters Asteroid Belt -- For Good NASA's Dawn spacecraft re-entered our solar system's asteroid belt today, Nov. 13, and this time it will stay there.
- 16:15 UTC Science and Technol... Final Earth Fly-by for Rosetta This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA's comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth.
- 14:00 UTC ESA Top News Rosetta sees a living planet Images and data taken just before closest approach were downloaded this morning, and they show shots taken as Rosetta was moving in, and the lights of North America in the ...
- 07:48 UTC ESA Space Science Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth sw... This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for ...
- 07:44 UTC ESA Top News Rosetta darting across the night During the night of 12/13 November, scientists working at ESA's Optical Ground Station in Tenerife, Spain, conducted observations to view Rosetta as the satellite approached Earth.
- 05:15 UTC ESA Top News LIVE STREAM: Rosetta swingby eventESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, 08... Watch live coverage of the Rosetta Earth swingby event from ESA's European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, 08:00-09:00 CET.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA's LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water in Lunar Crater Preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater.
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA's LCROSS Confirms Water in Lunar Crater Preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. The discovery opens a new chapter ...
- 05:00 UTC Planetary Society P... News: LCROSS Lunar Impactor Mission: "Yes, We Found Water... LCROSS Lunar Impactor Mission: "Yes, We Found Water!"
12 Nov 2009
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.
- 20:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... El Nino Picking Up Steam The latest image from the U.S./French Jason-2 satellite finds a strong wave of warm water heading toward the Americas, fueling El Nino.
- 19:00 UTC NAOJ Top News Science Results - Discovery of a Retrograde or Highly Til... Two teams of astronomers have found that extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b, discovered in 2008, has a retrograde or highly tilted orbit.
- 15:38 UTC ESA Space Science First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home This spectacular image of our home planet was captured by the OSIRIS instrument on ESA's Rosetta comet chaser earlier today as the spacecraft approached Earth for the third and final ...
- 12:45 UTC ESA Top News ESA spacecraft may help unravel cosmic mystery When Europe's comet chaser Rosetta swings by Earth tomorrow for a critical gravity assist, tracking data will be collected to precisely measure the satellite's change in orbital energy. The results ...
- 09:29 UTC ESA Top News Estonia becomes fifth ESA European Cooperating State ESA’s Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, Peter Hulsroj, and Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications, Juhan Parts, signed the Cooperation Agreement on 10 November in Tallinn.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Inventors to Compete for $400,000 in NASA Astronaut Glove... Reporters and the public are invited to attend the 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge on Nov. 19 at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Fla., near NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
- 05:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Students Send Microbe Experiment on Space Shuttle Atlanti... An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis.
- 05:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Ames to Host Live Broadcast of Space Shuttle Launch News media and the public are invited to observe the live televised broadcast of the launch of STS-129, space shuttle Atlantis, on Monday, Nov. 16 in the Exploration Center at ...
- 05:00 UTC Planetary Society P... News: Mars Exploration Rovers Breaking News: Spirit Begin... Mars Exploration Rovers Breaking News: Spirit Begins Extrication
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... SOYUZ' MOBILE LAUNCH GANTRY TAKES SHAPE AT THE SPACEPORT Preparations for the introduction Arianespace's Soyuz missions from French Guiana have entered a new phase with assembly startup for the launcher's mobile service gantry at the Spaceport. The 52-meter-tall gantry ...