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10 Feb 2015
- 15:39 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Lori Mooney - Cleanliness Is Next to Space Readiness - Pa... NASA Goddard’s Martha Stewart, contamination control technician Lori Mooney ensures that cleanliness makes for successful launches.
- 14:41 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... In the hot seat The Control Centre that will command Europe’s largest spacecraft, the Automated Transfer Vehicle, when it undocks from the International Space Station on Saturday
- 14:01 UTC ESA Top News ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s space colleagues announced The next crews to visit the International Space Station, including ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, have been announced.
- 13:35 UTC Science and Technol... UK to be key partner in the world's most advanced solar t... The UK is investing in the world's biggest and most advanced solar telescope, currently under construction in Hawaii. This 'super-telescope' will have UK-built cameras and detectors that will be able ...
- 12:45 UTC ESA Top News IXV gets ready ESA's spaceplane is set for its 100 minute mission tomorrow. See how it was done in the timelapse video
- 02:44 UTC Kavli Institute for... Kavli IPMU annual report 2013 released http://www.ipmu.jp/research-activities/annual-reports
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Vega enters the countdown for its February 11 flight with... The countdown is underway for Vega's flight with the European Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), with liftoff scheduled during a 1-hr., 43-min. launch window that opens on February 11 at 10:00 ...
9 Feb 2015
- 20:36 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Spacecraft Completes 40,000 Mars Orbits NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has exceeded 40,000 trips around Mars and continues to study patterns of change on the Red Planet.
- 19:14 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman to Visit Baltimore Area, Medi... NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, who spent 165 days living and working aboard the International Space Station, and gained a large following on social media while sharing the wonders of space ...
- 18:43 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Satellite Eyes New England Winter Storm Breaking Records Another large snowstorm affecting New England was dropping more snow on the region and breaking records on February 9, as NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured an image of the clouds associated ...
- 18:06 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... FINESSE Team Postdoctoral Research Opportunity NASA Postdoctoral Program position provides an opportunity to work with FINESSE team at NASA Ames Research Center. Lunar and Asteroid Volcanic Studies Based on Terrestrial Fieldwork, Laboratory Analysis, and Numerical ...
- 17:50 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Mission Crew... NASA and its International Space Station partners have announced the crew members, including NASA astronauts Kate Rubins, Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson, for three upcoming missions to the space station.
- 17:47 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA TV Coverage Set for NOAA DSCOVR Launch Feb. 10 The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) now is scheduled to launch at 6:05 p.m. EST Tuesday, Feb. 10 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...
- 17:17 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... DSCOVR Awaiting Launch on February 10, 2015 This photo shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to launch NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, at the Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force ...
- 16:00 UTC ESO Top News Stellar Partnership Doomed to End in Catastrophe Astronomers using ESO facilities in combination with telescopes in the Canary Islands have identified two surprisingly massive stars at the heart of the planetary nebula Henize 2-428. As they orbit ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Fires Dot the Southeastern United States It seems that in some states the wildfire season has started early this year. In Georgia specifically, wildfires have broken out due to high winds, low humidity and a lot ...
- 14:44 UTC ESA Space Science A sweet martian treat Space Science Image of the Week: This surprising view of the Red Planet, courtesy of Mars Express, shows chocolate, caramel and cream-coloured swirls encircling the south pole
- 13:40 UTC ESA Top News Watch IXV launch Join us for the launch of Europe's experimental spaceplane, scheduled for 13:00 GMT/14:00 CET. Streaming starts at 12:45 GMT (13.45 CET)
- 10:00 UTC ESA Top News IXV mission timeline An annotated timeline of the most critical events during the IXV mission. ESA’s wingless spaceplane is set for liftoff on a Vega rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, 11 February 2015.
- 07:01 UTC Planetary Science I... PSI's Faith Vilas Interviewed for Japanese TV Show A film crew from NHK Japan TV visited PSI’s Tucson headquarters to interview Senior Scientist Faith Vilas. The interview is scheduled to appear Feb. 12 – in Japan only – ...
- 07:00 UTC National Optical As... NASA Solicits Proposals for a World-class Precision Doppl... Kitt Peak National Observatory is the future home of a state-of-the-art instrument that will be used to detect and characterize other worlds. The new instrument, an extreme precision radial velocity ...
- 05:17 UTC Kavli Institute for... THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY OPENS A NEW OBSERVATIONAL DA... February ○, 2015 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU)read more
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Green light! Vega is approved for this week's suborbital ... The lightweight Vega member of Arianespace's launch vehicle family has been given the "all clear" for liftoff on February 11 with its European Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) payload.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Green light! Vega is approved for this week's suborbital ... The lightweight Vega member of Arianespace's launch vehicle family has been given the "all clear" for liftoff on February 11 with its European Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) payload.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Vega receives the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle paylo... The fourth Vega has completed its build-up at the Spaceport in French Guiana, preparing this lightweight member of Arianespace's launcher family for final checkout ahead of its February 11 liftoff ...
6 Feb 2015
- 18:37 UTC Perimeter Institute Perimeter cosmologists propose new form of “dynamical” cr... Perimeter cosmologists propose new form of “dynamical” crystalsFriday Feb 06, 2015 Latham Boyle wanted to enhance a proposed gravitational wave detector. Instead, he and Kendrick Smith may have stumbled upon ...
- 18:24 UTC Science@NASA Mud Matters NASA has launched a new satellite to study water, not in oceans or lakes but in the soil beneath our feet.
- 16:36 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Television to Air Briefing on NOAA Space Weather Mis... NASA Television will provide live coverage of a news briefing on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) new satellite mission to monitor ...
- 16:09 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Scientist Advances Methane Sounder to Measure Anothe... A NASA scientist is developing a new laser instrument to detect methane, a greenhouse gas.
- 16:06 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Scientist to Gather Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Melting... A NASA scientist will take her recently patented instrument to measure greenhouse gas emissions from Alaska’s melting permafrost.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Kennedy Space Center Launches Photo Page for NOAA DS... NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has activated their photo page for NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR mission in preparation for the launch. New photographs are added ...
- 15:45 UTC ESA Top News Week In Images Our week through the lens: 2-6 February 2015
- 15:28 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NOAA's DSCOVR: Offering A New View of the Solar Wind In February 2015, the United States Air Force will launch a NOAA satellite called Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, that will also help NASA scientists answer scientific mysteries about ...
- 15:19 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA TV Coverage Set For Partner Space Station Cargo Spac... NASA Television will provide live coverage of the departure and the arrival of two cargo spacecraft at the International Space Station (ISS) this month. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) fifth ...
- 13:48 UTC Perimeter Institute Luke Santi Award Winner Driven by Passions for People, Ph... Luke Santi Award Winner Driven by Passions for People, Physics, and Fresh PowderFriday Feb 06, 2015 Miles Cranmer, a first-year physics student at McGill University, has earned Perimeter’s 2014 Luke ...
- 12:26 UTC ESA Top News Camera to record doomed ATV’s disintegration – from insid... Next Monday, ESA astronaut Samantha Christoforetti will float into Europe’s space ferry to install a special infrared camera, set to capture unique interior views of the spacecraft’s break-up on reentry.
- 10:51 UTC Square Kilometer Ar... India’s GMRT telescope granted SKA pathfinder status After the NenuFAR telescope last year, LOFAR, the VLA, and others before, the SKA Organisation has now officially granted SKA pathfinder status to the emblematic Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) ...
- 09:05 UTC ESA Top News Lisbon Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-1 radar image of Portugal's capital, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
- 08:50 UTC ESA Top News Latest Galileo satellites reach launch site Another two Galileo satellites have touched down in French Guiana ready to take their place in Europe’s satellite navigation constellation.
- 07:45 UTC ESA Top News What’s new about Europe’s reentry mission? ESA’s experimental spaceplane, poised for liftoff on Vega, is set to showcase the latest technologies and critical systems to extend Europe’s capability for space exploration.
- 05:00 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Venus Climate Orbiter “AKATSUKI” Re-injection t... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has decided the schedule for the Venus Climate Orbiter “
- 01:22 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA Spacecraft Returns New Images of Pluto En Route to H... NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft returned its first new images of Pluto as the probe closes in on the dwarf planet. The image of Pluto and its moon Charon, taken by ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Space Life Sciences Training Program Applications Open The Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) provides undergraduate students entering their junior or senior years with professional experience in space life science disciplines.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... French Guiana welcomes the next two Galileo satellites fo... The two Galileo satellite passengers for launch on Arianespace's next Soyuz flight have now been delivered to French Guiana, enabling the start-up of payload preparations for this medium-lift mission.
5 Feb 2015
- 22:26 UTC MIT Kavli Institute MKI Journal Club (speakers: Aaron Ewall-Wice and Federico... Papers to be discussed: Aaron Ewall-Wice: TBA Federico Marinacci: TBA
- 22:20 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Planck Mission Explores the History of Our Universe New data from Planck are helping scientists better understand the history and fabric of our universe, as well as our own Milky Way galaxy.
- 22:19 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA's Curiosity Analyzing Sample of Martian Mountain NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is analyzing a rock-powder sample collected by using the rover's drill in a gentler manner than at previous drill targets.
- 20:13 UTC MIT Kavli Institute MKI Journal Club (speakers: TBA) Papers to be discussed: TBA
- 20:11 UTC MIT Kavli Institute MKI Journal Club (speakers: David Goldfinger and TBA) Papers to be discussed: David Goldfinger -- TBA second speaker -- TBA
- 20:07 UTC MIT Kavli Institute MKI Journal Club (speakers: Josh Dillon and TBA) Papers to be discussed: Josh Dillon -- TBA second speaker TBA