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25 Nov 2013
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Launches First Exo-Brake Parachute from Internationa... Mission controllers have confirmed that a small satellite launched from the International Space Station last week has successfully entered its orbit.
24 Nov 2013
- 16:21 UTC Science@NASA Comet ISON vs. the Solar Storm On Nov. 28th. Comet ISON will have a perilous close encounter with the Sun. In today's story from Science@NASA, experts discuss what might happen if the comet gets hit by ...
22 Nov 2013
- 21:13 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... JPL to Assist in Oil and Gas Tech Development Senior members from the oil and gas company Statoil were at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to participate in a ceremony for a recently signed agreement with NASA.
- 18:23 UTC Carnegie Institutio... Acid raid, ozone depletion contributed to ancient extinct... Washington, D.C.— Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off ...
- 17:25 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA Spacecraft Begins Collecting Lunar Atmosphere Data NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) has begun collecting science data about the moon. On Nov. 20, the LADEE spacecraft successfully entered its planned orbit around the moon’s ...
- 16:42 UTC ESA Top News What might recyclable satellites look like? No matter how painstakingly we choose the materials to build satellites, once a mission is over they are just so much junk. But what if one day they could be ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA, State of Maryland to Sign MOU on New Tech Transfer ... On Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, representatives from the State of Maryland and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center will sign an agreement that will be key in enabling both future missions ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA's Solar Observing Fleet to Watch Comet ISON's Journe... During the last week of its inbound trip, Comet ISON will enter the fields of view of several NASA Heliophysics observatories.
- 15:40 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA's Hubble Gets the Best image of bright quasar 3C 273 This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is likely the best of ancient and brilliant quasar 3C 273, which resides in a giant elliptical galaxy in ...
- 15:40 UTC ESA Top News Launch event replay Replay of the Swarm launch event with footage from the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, and from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia
- 15:30 UTC ESA Top News Week in Images Our week through the lens: 18-22 November 2013
- 15:20 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Successful Launch of the Swarm Constellation Carrying Can... Longueuil, Quebec, November 22, 2013 – The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is proud to announce the successful launch of Swarm – the European Space Agency's (ESA) first constellation of Earth ...
- 15:13 UTC Thirty Meter Telesc... GEMS in Hawaii Over three hundred fifth grade girls from the west side of Hawaii Island gathered in Kona on November 14 for the annual Girls Exploring Math and Science, or GEMS, event. ...
- 13:50 UTC ESA Top News Swarm mission launched PR N° 39-2013: ESA’s three-satellite Swarm constellation was lofted into a near-polar orbit by a Russian Rockot launcher this afternoon
- 13:01 UTC ESA Top News ESA’s Swarm trio on its way to watch over our planet’s ma... ESA’s three-satellite Swarm constellation was lofted into a near-polar orbit by a Russian Rockot launcher this afternoon. For four years, it will monitor Earth’s magnetic field, from the depth of ...
- 12:01 UTC ESA Top News Swarm liftoff Swarm lifted off on a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia at 12:02 GMT (13:02 CET)
- 11:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Special Offer: Two Galaxies for the Price of One The Universe makes sure we never get bored by providing a constant stream of mysteries and surprises. Last week the surprise for astronomers was that a single galaxy, which has ...
- 11:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Aanbieding: twee sterrenstelsels voor de prijs van één! Het heelal zorgt ervoor dat we ons nooit hoeven te vervelen, door steeds weer een heleboel mysteries en verassingen op ons af te sturen. Afgelopen week was de verassing voor ...
- 10:34 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Orion milestone set for May A milestone in developing Europe’s contribution to NASA’s Orion crew vehicle, expected to take human crews beyond Earth orbit later this decade, has been set for next May. The period ...
- 09:50 UTC ESA Top News Magnetic field ESA’s magnetic field mission, Swarm, is being launched today from Plesetsk, Russia. But what is the magnetic field?
- 09:02 UTC ESA Top News Qarhan Salt Lake Earth observation image of the week: false-colour composite of the Qarhan Salt Lake on the Tibetan Plateau in China
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Arianespace Flight VS06 Soyuz ST-B - Gaia: Launch set for... The checks on the Gaia satellite are proceeding nominally, enabling Arianespace in agreement with ESA to announce the launch date.
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA releases solicitation for spaceflight research oppor... NASA is soliciting hypothesis-driven spaceflight research in Space Biology to be conducted aboard the International Space Station. This solicitation Spaceflight Research Opportunities in Space Biology" (NRA NNH14ZTT001N) opened on November ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... LADEE Project Manager Update: Commissioning Complete NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) has completed the commissioning phase, and now is ready to begin the mission’s primary science phase.
21 Nov 2013
- 23:05 UTC American Astronomic... How Have the Sequester Cuts Affected You? The indiscriminate, across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester (or sequestration) began in 2013. That first round of cuts included more than $0.5 billion from basic science research budgets at ...
- 22:38 UTC American Astronomic... Reminder: Renew Now for Big Savings! Time is running out on the two special offers we're making available to members during this year's renewal season. You have until 31 December 2013 to renew for two years ...
- 22:21 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA, Planetary Resources Sign Agreement to Crowdsource A... NASA and Planetary Resources Inc., of Bellevue, Wash., are partnering to develop crowd-sourced software solutions to enhance detection of near-Earth objects using agency-funded data. The agreement is NASA's first partnership ...
- 21:07 UTC NASA's Spitzer Spac... Spitzer: Infant Galaxies Merge Near 'Cosmic Dawn' Astronomers using the combined power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope in Chile and NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have discovered a far-flung trio of primitive galaxies nestled ...
- 21:06 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Astronaut, Food Scientist Discuss Thanksgiving in Sp... NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Vickie Kloeris, the agency's manager of the International Space Station food system, will discuss the space station's Thanksgiving menus in live satellite interviews from 7- ...
- 20:00 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Infant Galaxies Merge Near 'Cosmic Dawn' A rare coming-together of three young galaxies reveals new insight into the earliest stages of galaxy formation.
- 19:15 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Launch of Canadian Instruments Onboard Swarm Constellatio... Longueuil, Quebec, November 21, 2013 – On November 22, the three satellites that form the Swarm constellation will be launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia.
- 19:07 UTC American Astronomic... How We Select Venues for AAS Meetings The mission of the AAS is to enhance and share our scientific understanding of the universe. We do this in a variety of ways, including publishing journals and conducting meetings. ...
- 19:00 UTC Lawrence Berkeley N... Searching for Cosmic Accelerators Via IceCube New results from IceCube, the neutrino observatory buried at the South Pole, may show the way to locating and identifying cosmic accelerators in our galaxy that are 40 million times ...
- 19:00 UTC University of Wisco... IceCube pushes neutrinos to the forefront of astronomy The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a particle detector buried in the Antarctic ice, is a demonstration of the power of the human passion for discovery, where scientific ingenuity meets technological innovation.
- 19:00 UTC University of Wisco... IceCube pushes neutrinos to the forefront of astronomy The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a particle detector buried in the Antarctic ice, is a demonstration of the power of the human passion for discovery, where scientific ingenuity meets technological innovation.
- 17:52 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA TV Features SSERVI Scientist Dr. David Kring Tonight at 5:30pm PDT, watch the lecture “The 2013 Chelyabinsk Air Burst and the Hazards of Near-Earth Asteroid Impacts” live on NASA TV. In February 2013, a fireball exploreded over ...
- 16:56 UTC American Astronomic... You're Invited to Join the Sloan Digital Sky Survey The Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) collaboration invites applications for institutional membership as we ramp up toward launch in July 2014 of three simultaneous photometric and spectroscopic surveys of ...
- 16:49 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Howard Branch: Turning on the Light As a mentor for his church’s youth mentoring program for middle school boys, aerospace engineer Howard Branch uses math tricks to make math easy, interesting and even fun.
- 16:10 UTC Science and Technol... Catch it while you can - 'Big Telescope' astronomy roadsh... Fresh off the back of the hugely successful Large Hadron Collider roadshow that inspired thousands, STFC's astronomy roadshow: 'Seeing the Universe in all its Light' has arrived at the National ...
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Spacecraft Begins Collecting Lunar Atmosphere Data NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is ready to begin collecting science data about the moon.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Sees 'Watershed' Cosmic Blast in Unique Detail On April 27, a blast of light from a dying star in a distant galaxy topped the charts as one of the brightest stellar explosions ever seen.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... How to Cook a Comet A comet’s journey through the solar system is perilous and violent. NASA animators created this short movie showing how the sun can cook a comet.
- 15:00 UTC HubbleSite NewsCent... Infant Galaxies Merging Near 'Cosmic Dawn' Get larger image formats Astronomers using the combined power of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have discovered a far-flung trio of primitive galaxies ...
- 14:56 UTC American Astronomic... From the Executive Office AAS Journals in 2013 The Society’s scientific research journals — the Astronomical Journal (AJ) and the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) — are in good health, and our publications team continues to ...
- 13:23 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Defying gravity Take a 3D virtual tour of the International Space Station
- 11:35 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... SPARC – Final Workshop On January 17th 2014 at the headquarters of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) in Rome a workshop entitled "Space Threats and Critical Infrastructures: Risks and Countermeasures" will be held. This ...
- 10:15 UTC Surrey Satellite Te... SSTL’s low-cost radar satellite NovaSAR wins IET Innovati... Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) is delighted to announce that its unique space-based S-band radar system, NovaSAR, has won an Innovation award for Navigation and Surveillance Communications from The Institution ...
- 09:06 UTC ESA Space Science Guide to our Galaxy Take a virtual journey from the centre to the outskirts of the Milky Way
- 09:04 UTC ESA Top News Watch Swarm launch Follow the Swarm launch live on 22 November. Streaming of the launch event begins at 10:45 GMT, with liftoff scheduled at 12:02 GMT
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... SOFIA's Target of Opportunity: Comet ISON Unique flying observatory captures infrared imagery of comet's dust mass and loss rate, data that will contribute to understanding of its origin.