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1 Apr 2014
- 14:22 UTC ESA Top News Hack a space app There are a thousand satellites working overhead and much of their data is freely shared. Build an application with experts to tap into their potential for the International Space App ...
- 10:18 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... "L'Universo Nascosto" exhibition “L’Universo Nascosto” (Hidden Universe) exhibition will be held in Faenza (RA) from 12 April to 25 May 2014. The history of space exploration will be the subject of the exhibition. ...
- 09:03 UTC ESA Top News Last look at Sentinel-1 As preparations for the launch of the first satellite for Copernicus continue on track, the team at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana has said farewell to Sentinel-1A as it ...
- 00:34 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Model Provides a 3-D Look at L.A.-area Quake JPL scientists are studying the March 28 La Habra earthquake, a 5.1, to learn more about what may lie ahead.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Soyuz is in the launch zone for Arianespace's April 3 mis... Arianespace’s seventh Soyuz to be launched from French Guiana is now undergoing final checkout for its April 3 liftoff following installation of the mission’s satellite passenger – Sentinel-1A – atop ...
31 Mar 2014
- 22:55 UTC Arianespace Press R... Soyuz is in the launch zone for Arianespace's April 3 mis... The Soyuz for Arianespace's seventh mission with its medium-lift workhorse launcher is now in the launch zone at French Guiana, ready to receive the Sentinel-1A satellite payload for Europe's Copernicus ...
- 21:48 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Space and astronomy digest: April 2014 The April digest of upcoming space and astronomy events, from the RAS. Events this month include the possible crash of the LADEE mission into the lunar surface and a specialist ...
- 19:56 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Comet LINEAR to Produce New Major Meteor Shower in 2014 On May 24, 2014 debris from Comet 209P/LINEAR may result in a fine display of shooting stars. On the night of May 24, 2014 – if predictions hold true – ...
- 18:55 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Satellite Shows High Productivity from U.S. Corn Belt Data from satellite sensors show that during the Northern Hemisphere's growing season, the Midwest region of the United States boasts more photosynthetic activity.
- 18:54 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Armstrong Center Renaming Ceremony Set for May 13 Media are invited to a formal dedication ceremony to mark the renaming of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, formerly the Dryden Flight Research Center, on Tuesday, May 13 at the ...
- 17:39 UTC American Astronomic... France A. Córdova Sworn In as NSF Director Adapted from a National Science Foundation press release: France A. Córdova was sworn in today as the 14th director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a six-year term. John ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Commercial Crew Partners Complete Space System Miles... NASA's commercial space partners continue to meet milestones under agreements with the agency's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), as they move forward in their development of spacecraft and rockets that will ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NSIDC, NASA Say Arctic Melt Season Lengthening, Ocean Rap... A longer, earlier sea ice melt season allows the Arctic Ocean to absorb enough heat to thin the ice cap by four feet per year.
- 15:42 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Releases Images of X-class Solar Flare The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:48 p.m. EDT March 29, 2014, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event.
- 13:15 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Tuesday, 1 April, at 14:00 CEST as ESA’s Josef Aschbacher joins the show to discuss the first satellite being launched for the Copernicus programme this week
- 09:00 UTC ASTRON Renovated Dwingeloo Telescope reveals 100 exoplanets Nobel Prize winner, radio astronomer and radio amateur prof. Joseph Hooton Taylor (for radio amateurs also known as K1JT) is honorary guest at the reopening ceremony of the restored Dwingeloo ...
28 Mar 2014
- 18:01 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Hubble Spots Mars-Bound Comet Sprout Multiple Jets NASA releases image of a comet that will pass within 84,000 miles of Mars. The images above show — before and after filtering — comet C/2013 A1, also known as ...
- 16:50 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Dawn Wins National Air and Space Museum Trophy Dawn receives prestigious National Air and Space Museum Trophy.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... John Decker - A Change in Scenery Aerospace Engineer John Decker became a re-hired annuitant to devote more time to his other passion – the theater.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hubble: Magnifying the Distant Universe Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive structures that can be found in the Universe — large groups of galaxies bound together by gravity. This image from the NASA/ESA ...
- 15:51 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Engineers Install Near Infrared Camera into the Heart of ... Inside the world's largest clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked tirelessly to install another essential part of the James Webb Space Telescope - ...
- 14:43 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Research Clarifies Health Costs of Air Pollution from Agr... Ammonia pollution from agricultural sources poses larger health costs than previously estimated, according to NASA-funded research.
- 14:15 UTC ESA Top News Week in Images Our week through the lens: 24-28 March 2014
- 13:30 UTC ESA Space Science ESA and CERN sign cooperation agreement ESA, the European Space Agency, and CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, signed a cooperation agreement on 28 March to foster future collaborations on research themes of common interest.
- 12:29 UTC American Astronomic... Job Opportunity at the AAS: Science Highlights Editor The AAS seeks a knowledgeable, talented, and experienced science writer to help the Society deliver high-impact scientific results to the astronomical research community and to journalists who cover the astronomical ...
- 12:06 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Director's Desk:ESA and CERN sign cooperation agreement ESA, the European Space Agency, and CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, signed a cooperation agreement on 28 March to foster future collaborations on research themes of common interest.
- 11:50 UTC ESA Space Science The Solar Cycle Space science image of the week: The rise and fall of solar activity, as seen by SOHO
- 10:03 UTC ESA Top News Monitoring air quality takes next step With air pollution linked to millions of deaths around the world, it has never been more important to monitor the air we breathe. Today marks a significant step forward as ...
- 09:05 UTC ESA Top News Colourful cultivations Earth observation image of the week: radar vision over southwest Iran, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
- 08:32 UTC ESA Top News Give a name to ESA’s zone of silence Kept isolated from the external Universe, a special ESA chamber simulates the boundless emptiness of space for testing satellite antennas. Recently refitted, it is in need of a new name. ...
- 04:44 UTC Science@NASA The Opposition of Mars Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter in April, an event astronomers call "the opposition of Mars."
27 Mar 2014
- 23:00 UTC CERN CERN and ESA sign cooperation agreement Geneva, 28 March 2014. At a ceremony today at Geneva airport, CERN1 and ESA signed a framework agreement for future cooperation on research and technology in areas of mutual interest. ...
- 21:20 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Cleaner NASA Rover Sees Its Shadow in Martian Spring NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has captured a shadow selfie on a slope it is exploring with an increasing power supply, as winds remove some dust and spring days grow longer.
- 21:18 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... JPL: Rosetta Sets Sights on Destination Comet The Rosetta spacecraft caught its first glimpse of its destination comet since waking up from deep-space hibernation on Jan. 20, 2014.
- 17:59 UTC Planetary Society P... The Planetary Society Decries NASA Budget Cuts for Scienc... The Planetary Society has released its official response to the President’s 2015 NASA budget request, in which it decries the hundreds of millions of dollars of cuts to NASA’s science ...
- 17:30 UTC American Astronomic... Contribute to the AAS's Spring 2014 Campaign To foster and recognize excellence in astronomy, the AAS awards prizes for outstanding contributions to research, instrumentation, education, and service. The achievements of AAS prizewinners are celebrated throughout the world. ...
- 17:26 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Spitzer Sees the Galactic Dawn with 'Frontier Fields' NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, in tandem with other major NASA observatories, has recently embarked on a major new mission to glimpse the universe's very first galaxies.
- 16:35 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... First-Ever Asteroid With Rings The curious Centaur object reportedly has both water ice AND rings. This ESOcast shows how observations at many sites in South America, including ESO’s La Silla Observatory, have made the ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Satellite Time-Lapse Movie Shows U.S. East Coast Snowy Wi... A new time-lapse animation of data from NOAA's GOES-East satellite provides a good picture of why the U.S. East Coast experienced a snowier than normal winter.
- 15:28 UTC Science@NASA A Tetrad of Lunar Eclipses A total lunar eclipse on April 15th marks the beginning of a remarkable series of eclipses all visible from North America.
- 15:00 UTC Johns Hopkins Unive... APL Hosts Baltimore/Washington D.C. Space Apps Challenge Tech-savvy creative teams from across the region will gather on April 12-13 to take part in the International Space Apps Challenge - a global, two-day marathon of coding and design ...
- 14:15 UTC Science and Technol... First antenna launched on precursor to world’s largest t... British technologies at the heart of the world's largest radio telescope and British scientists will be amongst the first in line to use it in 2015. The first of 64 ...
- 14:00 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Canada Invests in Health Technologies for Astronauts March 27, 2014 - Longueuil, Quebec - Canadian Space Agency - Today, the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), announced five ...
- 14:00 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Hubble Sees Mars-Bound Comet Sprout Multiple Jets Get larger image formats Comet Siding Spring is plunging toward the Sun along a roughly 1-million-year orbit. The comet, discovered in 2013, was within the radius of Jupiter's orbit when ...
- 13:30 UTC ESA Top News Mars yard ready for Red Planet rover A state-of-the-art ‘Mars yard’ is now ready to put the ExoMars rover through its paces before the vehicle is launched to the Red Planet in 2018.
- 13:00 UTC ESA Top News Rosetta sets sights on destination comet ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has caught a first glimpse of its destination comet since waking up from deep-space hibernation on 20 January.
- 13:00 UTC ESA Top News Earth from Space Join us Friday, 28 March, at 10:00 CET for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites
- 11:57 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Aces Delicate Operation with Aircraft Tail They made it look easy. NASA engineers pulled off a tricky installation of a two-story aircraft tail in a wind tunnel.
- 09:45 UTC ESA Top News Pine Island retreat on the radar Twenty years of radar coverage from ESA satellites have been used to measure the rapid thinning of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier – and it’s losing more ice than previously thought.
- 09:37 UTC ESA Top News Pine Island retreat Twenty years of radar data from ESA satellites have been used to quantify the rapid thinning of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier – and it’s losing more ice than previously thought