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26 Mar 2014
- 18:57 UTC American Astronomic... Shop at Amazon.com & Support the AAS The AAS has joined AmazonSmile, giving members and friends a new way to support the Society. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the same low prices, vast selection, and ...
- 18:28 UTC Carnegie Institutio... Solar System's Edge Redefined Washington, D.C.—The Solar System has a new most-distant member, bringing its outer frontier into focus. New work from Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory reports the ...
- 18:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Rings Around an Asteroid The rings of Saturn are one of the most spectacular sights in the sky. Less striking rings have also been found around all the other giant planets in our Solar ...
- 18:00 UTC ESO Top News First Ring System Around Asteroid Observations at many sites in South America, including ESO’s La Silla Observatory, have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings. ...
- 18:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... Ringen rond een planetoïde De ringen van Saturnus behoren tot de meest spectaculaire schouwspelen aan de hemel. Minder indrukwekkende ringen zijn gevonden rond de andere gasreuzen in ons Zonnestelsel - Jupiter, Uranus en Neptunus. ...
- 17:27 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA Seeks Proposals on Asteroid Redirect Mission Concept... NASA plans to select 25 proposals and award as much as $6 million for asteroid mission concept studies. In support of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission – a key part of ...
- 16:05 UTC ESA Top News Growing more coffee Technology image of the week: ESA incubator app to help Rwandan coffee farmers
- 15:54 UTC ESA Top News Interactive Swarm Swarm at your fingertips: download the interactive brochure on ESA’s three-satellite magnetic field mission
- 14:20 UTC American Astronomic... Rep. Johnson Wins Brown Award for Science Leadership The following is adapted from a press release (PDF) issued by the Science-Engineering-Technology Working Group (SETWG), to which the AAS belongs: US Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30) has received the ...
- 12:30 UTC Canadian Space Agen... Canadian Space Agency Astronaut David Saint-Jacques meets... March 26, 2014 - Longueuil, Quebec - Canadian Space Agency - On March 27 and April 1, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut David Saint-Jacques will meet with hundreds of students ...
- 12:13 UTC ASI Agenzia Spazial... AGILE, extended mission On April 23 it will blow out seven candles, and it couldn’t celebrate in a better way: the AGILE satellite (Astrorivelatore Gamma a Immagini Leggero) [X-ray and Gamma ray astronomical ...
- 09:00 UTC ESA Top News Sentinel-1 fuelled and ready ESA’s first satellite dedicated to Europe’s environmental monitoring Copernicus programme has been fuelled and pressurised, ready for its launch on 3 April.
- 03:53 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Hosts Deep Space Network Social Media Event NASA will host 50 of its social media followers on April 1 and 2, 2014, at JPL in Pasadena and the Deep Space Network complex in Goldstone, Calif.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Arianespace's seventh Soyuz mission from French Guiana is... The campaign for Arianespace's medium-lift Soyuz launch with the Sentinel-1A Earth observation satellite is moving into its final preparations for an April 3 liftoff from French Guiana.
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... NASA Awards Contract for Intelligent Systems Research NASA has selected Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. (SGT) of Greenbelt, Md., for a contract for Intelligent Systems Research and Development Support services at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett ...
25 Mar 2014
- 22:26 UTC NASA Breaking News New Crew Launches to Space Station to Continue Scientific... Three crew members representing the United States and Russia are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:17 p.m. EDT ...
- 21:20 UTC American Astronomic... AAS 2015 Prize Nominations Are Due 30 June The AAS needs your help in getting due recognition for our most outstanding colleagues. Nominations and letters of support for the AAS prizes for 2015 must arrive in the Secretary's ...
- 21:14 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Solicits New Collaborative Partnerships with Commerc... Building on the success of NASA's commercial spaceflight initiatives, agency officials announced Monday plans to solicit proposals from U.S. private enterprises for unfunded partnerships to collaboratively develop new commercial space ...
- 21:11 UTC American Astronomic... Wanted: Deadlines & Sponsors for the 2015 AAS Wall Calend... One of the many benefits of membership in the AAS is the annual AAS Wall Calendar. It is provided free to all members and makes an attractive addition to any ...
- 21:11 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Rosetta:Payload commissioning underway The re-commissioning of Rosetta&aposs science instruments is now in its second week, and while our operations and science teams are busy with those activities, we have a quick status report ...
- 20:50 UTC American Astronomic... Five, Count 'em, Five, John Bahcall Public Policy Fellows... The current and former AAS John N. Bahcall Public Policy Fellows gathered for lunch with Neta Bahcall, supporter of the fellowship program, in late March. Shown standing (left to right) ...
- 19:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Organisation Release: New artwork unveiled at the Science... Last week researchers from around the world gathered at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome for the Science with the Hubble Space Telescope IV conference. The event celebrated the history ...
- 18:05 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Announces 2014 Tribal College and University Awards NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has awarded approximately $2 million in new cooperative agreements to three tribal colleges and universities (TCUs).
- 18:02 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Seeks Suborbital Flight Services Proposals for Techn... NASA is seeking proposals from U.S. commercial suborbital reusable launch vehicle providers to integrate and fly technology payloads for the space agency.
- 16:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Announces Media Opportunities for Asteroid Forum Media are invited to attend the agency's Asteroid Initiative Opportunities Forum on Wednesday, March 26, at NASA Headquarters in Washington or participate virtually. NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot will be ...
- 15:13 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Rosetta:Rosetta sets sights on destination comet ESA&aposs Rosetta spacecraft has caught a first glimpse of its destination comet since waking up from deep-space hibernation on 20 January.
- 15:10 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Fernando Pellerano - Orchestra Conductor to Goddard's ATL... Aerospace Engineer Fernando Pellerano builds instruments for NASA during the day and creates robots with his son during his free time.
- 15:10 UTC ESA Top News Sentinel-1 controllers ready for hectic first days Following a spectacular launch, Sentinel-1A’s first few days in orbit will be some of the most complex in recent memory. Mission control teams will work around the clock to nurse ...
- 14:26 UTC NASA Breaking News First Images Available from NASA-JAXA Global Rain and Sno... NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have released the first images captured by their newest Earth-observing satellite, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, which launched into space ...
- 10:15 UTC ESA Top News Ready for Sentinel-1 Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Sentinel-1 teams in training
- 08:55 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Hubble:New artwork unveiled at the Science with the Hubbl... Last week researchers from around the world gathered at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome for the Science with the Hubble Space Telescope IV conference. The event celebrated the history ...
- 05:00 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] First Images Available from NASA-JAXA Global Ra... First Images Available from NASA-JAXA Global Rain and Snowfall Satellite
- 04:30 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Selection of Prime Contractor for Development a... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made an announcement to the private sector on February
24 Mar 2014
- 21:21 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... The ‘Other’ Lunar Orbiter 1 Earthrise Image LOIRP releases newly enhanced image of Earth taken from lunar orbit 47 years ago. The first earthrise image, Frame 1102 (top) and the second earthrise Frame 1117 (bottom) show similar ...
- 20:12 UTC NASA Lunar Science ... NASA Orbiter Finds New Gully on Mars NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals the formation of a new gully channel on a crater-wall slope in the southern highlands of Mars. A comparison of images taken by the High ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Student Robotics Teams Head to World Championships Teams from California and Chile won the right to progress at the FIRST Robotics Competition Los Angeles Regional Qualifier held March 21 and 22 in Long Beach, Calif.
- 19:03 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Student Robotics Teams Head to World Championships Teams from California and Chile won the right to progress at the FIRST Robotics Competition Los Angeles Regional Qualifier held March 21 and 22 in Long Beach, Calif.
- 18:45 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Mars Rover's Next Stop Has Sandstone Variations NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is approaching a waypoint where sandstone layers exhibit textures that may tell of ancient environmental changes.
- 16:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Education Event Highlights Mission to Study Magnetic... NASA's MMS mission and science were highlighted during a public event on March 16 at the Goddard Visitor Center.
- 15:23 UTC ASTRON Discovery of Super‑Powered Black Hole in Nearby Galaxy M8... In an article featured on the cover of the journal Science this week, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Roberto Soria at Curtin University, and including ASTRON research fellow ...
- 12:08 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Scientists solve riddle of celestial archaeology A decades old space mystery has been solved by an international team of astronomers led by Professor Martin Barstow of the University of Leicester and President-elect of the Royal Astronomical ...
- 00:00 UTC NASA's Ames Researc... MarsFest 2014: Linking Extremes of Earth and Space
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Success of the 1,815th launch of Soyuz The 1,815th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed on Monday, 24 March 2014 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia at 02:54 Moscow time (23:54 Paris time on Sunday, ...
22 Mar 2014
- 22:05 UTC ESA Top News Ariane 5’s second launch of 2014 An Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecom satellites, Astra-5B and Amazonas-4A, into their planned transfer orbits.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Ariane 5's heavy-lift flight with ASTRA 5B and Amazonas 4... The final countdown is underway for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 launch, which will carry the ASTRA 5B and Amazonas 4A telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit this evening.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Service continuity for established customers: Arianespace... The workhorse Ariane 5 orbited a pair of payloads – ASTRA 5B for SES and HISPASAT'S Amazonas 4A - this evening, continuing the relationships with two customers that have come ...
21 Mar 2014
- 18:31 UTC NASA Breaking News SpaceX Launch to the International Space Station Reset fo... SpaceX has confirmed it will target its next cargo mission launch to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, for 10:50 p.m. EDT, Sunday, March ...
- 17:47 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Seeks Proposals on Asteroid Redirect Mission Concept... In support of NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission – a key part of the agency’s stepping stone path to send humans to Mars – agency officials are seeking proposals for studies ...
- 15:52 UTC Royal Astronomical ... RAS statement on Hiranya Peiris and Maggie Aderin-Pocock The Council and President of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) have offered unequivocal support to astronomers Dr Hiranya Peiris and Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock. An article in the Daily Mail suggested ...
- 14:40 UTC Arianespace Press R... Ariane 5 moves to the launch zone for Arianespace's March... Arianespace has delivered another Ariane 5 to the launch zone at Europe's Spaceport, positioning this workhorse vehicle for liftoff tomorrow with a pair of telecommunications satellites: ASTRA 5B and Amazonas ...