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1 May 2013
- 21:12 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Invites Public to Send Names and Messages to Mars NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian ...
- 20:03 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Rover Prototype Set to Explore Greenland Ice Sheet NASA's newest scientific rover is set for testing May 3 through June 8 in the highest part of Greenland.
- 19:00 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Dusty Plasma Effects in Comets: Expectations for Rosetta The forthcoming Rosetta-Philae rendezvous and lander mission will provide a unique opportunity to study dusty plasma phenomena in a single comet, as it moves around the Sun. Despite their small ...
- 19:00 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Minister Moore to Unveil Exhibit for Canada's National Sp... Longueuil, Quebec, May 1, 2013 – The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, on behalf of the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible ...
- 18:30 UTC Arianespace Press R... Vega is readied for its May 3 liftoff with a three-satell... The second Vega mission from French Guiana has entered its final preparation phase as the lightweight launcher is readied for a nighttime liftoff on May 3 with a trio of ...
- 18:10 UTC Canadian Space Agen... First Joint Meeting on Space Cooperation between Japan an... Longueuil, Quebec, May 1, 2013 – Today, Japan and Canada held the first Joint Meeting on Space Cooperation. This Joint Meeting is based on the Memorandum for Promotion of Space ...
- 16:31 UTC NASA Breaking News Success Continues as NASA's Orion Parachute Tests Get Mor... A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft safely landed during a simulation of two types of parachute failures Wednesday.
- 15:21 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Spacecraft Will Visit Asteroid with New Name An asteroid that will be explored by a NASA spacecraft has a new name, thanks to a third-grade student in North Carolina.
- 14:58 UTC Planetary Society P... Nine-Year-Old Names Asteroid Target of NASA Mission in Co... Asteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36 now has the much friendlier name "Bennu," thanks to a 3rd-grade student from North Carolina.
- 14:41 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Space and astronomy digest: May 2013 The regular digest of upcoming space and astronomy news events, from the RAS. May sees the 193rd Annual General Meeting of the Society, where the results of the elections for ...
- 13:47 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Election results: new President and Council The results of the 2013 RAS elections (index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2242:2013-elections-are-now-open&catid=224:news-2013&Itemid=193) were announced at the Annual General Meeting (index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2246:annual-general-meeting-2013&catid=224:news-2013&Itemid=193) of the society on 10 May. The following Fellows were elected to serve on ...
- 09:20 UTC Herschel News Herschel shows galaxies had cool beginnings Herschel have shown that galaxies in the early Universe were cooler than those we see around us today, indicating that early galaxies were more bloated. read more
- 08:25 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Bedsuit Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: metabolic monitor
- 05:30 UTC CERN US becomes observer at CERN
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Selects U.S. Small Business Technology Transfer Proj... NASA has selected 14 proposals from small business and research institution teams to continue development of innovative technologies that are needed for future NASA missions and could become viable commercial ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News Deputy Administrator Garver Visits NASA's Gulf Coast Faci... Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will visit NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and testing facilities at the agency's Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss., Friday, May 3.
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Astronaut TJ Creamer to Speak to Students in Tennessee On May 2, NASA astronaut TJ Creamer will speak to students in Lynchburg and Fayetteville, Tenn., about science.
- 01:17 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... IRIS Q&A with Robert Carvalho Robert Carvalho is one of two flight controllers for the IRIS mission, and is helping design, develop and integrate flight controller software tools.
- 01:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... LADEE Project Manager Update NASA's LADEE Observatory recently completed the Thermal-Vacuum phase of environmental testing at NASA's Ames Research Center.
- 00:00 UTC Surrey Satellite Te... SSTL appoints Toru Yunoki as Telecommunications Business ... Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has appointed Mr Toru Yunoki as Business Development Manager for its Telecommunications products. In his new role, Mr Yunoki is responsible for promoting SSTL’s range ...
30 Apr 2013
- 21:45 UTC National Optical As... A Better View with Adaptive Optics into the Heart of a Gl... Astronomers at the Southern Observatory for Astrophysical Research (SOAR) and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) have demonstrated the significant difference that sharp stellar images can make in our understanding ...
- 19:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... A Dynamic Landscape, a Dynamic Sensor The varied colors and topography of national forests in the Pacific Northwest's Cascade Mountains provide a great test for LDCM's eyesight.
- 18:37 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... The Day Fermi Dodged a 1.5-ton Bullet NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite...
- 17:19 UTC NASA's Chandra X-ra... Colossal Hot Cloud Envelopes Colliding Galaxies A pair of colliding spiral galaxies about 330 million light years from Earth.
- 17:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Puedo ver tu halo El Universo es enorme y está lleno de espacio vacío. La luz de la estrella más cercana fuera de nuestro sistema solar tiene que viajar a través del negro espacio ...
- 16:10 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg Available for Interviews Befo... NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, a Vining, Minn., native who is making final preparations for a launch to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 7- ...
- 15:00 UTC Lawrence Berkeley N... Does Antimatter Fall Up or Down? Theory and observations support the view that antimatter experiences gravity just as ordinary matter does, but the evidence so far has been indirect. Indeed, some theorists speculate that antimatter is ...
- 15:00 UTC CERN ALPHA experimenters present novel investigation of the ef... Geneva, 30 April 2013. The ALPHA collaboration at CERN1 has published a paper in Nature Communications describing the first direct analysis of how antimatter is affected by gravity. ALPHA was ...
- 11:23 UTC ESA Top News World’s major development banks look closer at Earth obse... International development banks often invest in regions where projects can be difficult to monitor and evaluate. Earth-observing satellites are proving to be important tools for the development sector.
- 09:06 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... The end of the Herschel mission As expected the supply of liquid helium coolant has run out and an honourable career will soon be concluded: we are talking about Herschel, the ESA space observatory that was ...
- 07:55 UTC Indiana University ... Star Trak: May 2013 Venus, Jupiter and Mercury will have a spectacular series of conjunctions in evening twilight during the last half of May. Skywatchers will need a clear view of the western horizon ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Extends Crew Flight Contract with Russian Space Agen... NASA has signed a $424 million modification to its contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for full crew transportation services to the International Space Station in 2016 with ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... NASA Challenges Teams to Build Autonomous Robots Teams are perfecting their hardware and software to compete for prize money at NASA’s 2013 Sample Return Robot Challenge.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Ground Measurement Campaign to Help Predict Floods NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission begins collecting ground data in northeastern Iowa that will evaluate how well satellite rainfall data can be used for flood forecasting.
29 Apr 2013
- 23:42 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... IceBridge Finishing Up Successful Arctic Campaign IceBridge scientists begin another season of research activity over Arctic ice sheets and sea ice with the first of a series of science flights from Greenland on Wednesday.
- 23:20 UTC Science@NASA Gigantic Hurricane Spotted on Saturn NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted a gigantic hurricane swirling inside a mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as "the hexagon" at Saturn's north pole.
- 23:11 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Opportunity in Standby as Commanding Moratorium Ends During a moratorium on commanding this month while Mars passed nearly behind the sun, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity entered a type of standby mode.
- 23:05 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... Why LADEE Matters In order to understand Earth's atmosphere, it is essential to study atmospheres under a range of conditions beyond Earth. This image shows the moon, Earth’s only natural satellite, at center ...
- 22:02 UTC Arianespace Press R... Checkout is underway with O3b Networks' four satellites t... The first four satellites to serve O3b Networks in providing emerging market connectivity worldwide have entered their checkout phase at the Spaceport, readying them for a June flight on Arianespace's ...
- 21:14 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA, NSBRI Select 23 Proposals to Support Crew Health on... NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) of Houston will fund 23 proposals to help investigate questions about astronaut health and performance on future ...
- 20:00 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Largest Space Telescope Ever Closes its Eyes on the Unive... Longueuil, Quebec, April 29, 2013 – After making over 35,000 observations and logging more than 25,000 hours of studying the Universe, the Herschel Space Observatory has exhausted its supply of ...
- 19:50 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Why LADEE Matters LADEE's observations of the lunar atmosphere and surface conditions will provide us with insights we can apply to many worlds.
- 19:46 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... Kepler Mission Manager Update The team recently completed a monthly science data download, marking the successful completion of Quarter 16 flight operations.
- 18:10 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Herschel Completes its 'Cool' Journey in Space The Herschel observatory, which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected.
- 17:57 UTC Carnegie Institutio... No Redoubt: Volcanic Eruption Forecasting Improved Washington, D.C.—Forecasting volcanic eruptions with success is heavily dependent on recognizing well-established patterns of pre-eruption unrest in the monitoring data. But in order to develop better monitoring procedures, it is ...
- 17:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... I Can See Your Halo The Universe is enormous and full of empty space. Light from the nearest star has to travel through empty black space for 4.2 years before it reaches our eyes, even ...
- 16:35 UTC NASA Breaking News Texas Students to Speak Live With Space Station NASA Astr... NASA Expedition 35 astronaut and flight engineer Chris Cassidy aboard the International Space Station will conduct a live air-to-ground talk with students of Fredricksburg High School in Texas at 12:40 ...
- 16:00 UTC ESA Space Science Eye of the storm Space science image of the week: Cassini eyes a powerful hurricane at Saturn’s north pole
- 15:30 UTC ESA Space Science Herschel closes its eyes on the Universe ESA’s Herschel space observatory has exhausted its supply of liquid helium coolant, ending more than three years of pioneering observations of the cool Universe.
- 14:50 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Commander Chris Hadfield Communicates Through Amateur Rad... Longueuil, Quebec, April 29, 2013 – As part of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield will answer questions live ...