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30 Apr 2013
- 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 ...
- 13:40 UTC ESA Science & Techn... Herschel:Observation gives way to examination as Herschel... The liquid helium coolant that enabled instruments on board the Herschel space observatory to collect extraordinary images and spectra has finally run out. Launched in 2009, the ESA mission collected ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Preparing for SLS Core Stage Testing Before NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) flies to space on its inaugural mission in 2017, it will fly in place at Stennis Space Center.
27 Apr 2013
- 04:00 UTC NASA Marshall Space... Winners Announced! 2013 NASA Great Moonbuggy Race NASA has declared the winners of the 20th NASA Great Moonbuggy Race at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.
- 01:11 UTC Science@NASA Cassini Catches Meteors Hitting Saturn's Rings NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids crashing into Saturn's rings and breaking into streams of rubble.
26 Apr 2013
- 16:36 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Satu... NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole.
- 16:08 UTC ESA Top News Vega poised for commercial launches The second Vega launch marks the transition to commercial exploitation, showcasing a mature launcher with increased capabilities and flexibility to meet the different demands of the launchers market.
- 10:33 UTC ESA Human Spaceflig... Stress to rest On Sunday, ESA’s bedrest volunteers began lying down for their second three-week session with their heads angled below the horizontal to help research the effects of weightlessness on the human ...
- 10:11 UTC ESA Top News Week In Images Our week through the lens: 22-26 April 2013
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA, Partners Solicit Creative Materials Manufacturing S... NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. State Department and Nike have issued a challenge to identify 10 game-changing innovations that could enable fabric systems to enhance ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Hubble’s View of a Changing Fan PV Cep is a favorite target for amateur astronomers because the fan-shaped nebulosity, known as GM 1-29 or Gyulbudaghian’s Nebula, changes over a timescale of months.
- 04:00 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Dr. Paul Racette: Spirit in the Fire Dr. Paul Racette raises consciousness by bridging how Native Americans and Western scientists view the world.
- 00:00 UTC Arianespace Press R... Arianespace’s launcher cadence continues with four missio... The Spaceport is operating to the rhythm of Arianespace’s launcher family, with four parallel mission campaigns now underway in French Guiana for the heavy-lift Ariane 5, medium-lift Soyuz and lightweight ...
25 Apr 2013
- 18:58 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... The Sun Sends Two CMEs Toward Mercury On the night of April 24 and the morning of April 25, 2013, the sun erupted with two coronal mass ejections (CMEs), solar phenomena that can send billions of tons ...
- 18:55 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... NASA Mission to Study What Disrupts Radio Waves A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch this spring to observe the formation of electrical storms in Earth's upper atmosphere that can negatively affect satellite communication and global positioning signals.
- 18:48 UTC NASA's Goddard Spac... Dr. Jennifer Wiseman Discusses the Hubble Jennifer Wiseman, senior project scientist for Hubble, discusses the history and the status of the pioneering space telescope.
- 18:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... The Warped Fabric of Our Universe Have you ever wondered why people on the other side of the world don't fall off? In the 17th Century, a man called Isaac Newton came up with an answer: ...
- 18:00 UTC ESO Top News Einstein Was Right — So Far Astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope, along with radio telescopes around the world, to find and study a bizarre stellar pair consisting of the most massive neutron star confirmed ...
- 18:00 UTC Universe Awareness ... El tejido deformado de nuestro Universo ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué la gente del otro lado del planeta no se cae? En el siglo XVII, un señor llamado Isaac Newton encontró una respuesta: gravedad. ...
- 17:54 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Selects Small Businesses for Innovative Research and... NASA has selected 44 additional proposals from 42 small high-technology companies to enter into negotiations for Phase 2 contract awards through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program.
- 17:54 UTC NASA's Jet Propulsi... Curiosity Wins National Air and Space Museum Trophy The team in charge of landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, received the museum's highest group honor.
- 16:46 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Extends Mission Operations Support Contract NASA has exercised a contract option with Lockheed Martin Corp. of Gaithersburg, Md., to provide continued mission control systems services, development, maintenance and operations support as part of the Facilities ...
- 15:53 UTC ESA Top News From space: incubation programme creates a thousand jobs The creation of a thousand new high-tech jobs over the last nine years was celebrated at the Agency’s business incubator in southern Germany on Wednesday. The centre and its start-ups ...
- 14:48 UTC Royal Astronomical ... Annual General Meeting 2013 The 193rd Annual General Meeting of the RAS will be held in the lecture theatre of the Geological Society, Burlington House, London, on 10th May 2013 at 16:00. It is ...
- 14:08 UTC Arianespace Press R... Arianespace VV02 - Proba-V, VNREDSat-1 and ESTCube-1: Lau... To carry out additional checks on the mobile gantry system used on the Vega launch complex (SLV), the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace have decided to postpone the Vega ...
- 13:00 UTC Hubble Space Telesc... Science Release: Entire galaxies feel the heat from newbo... Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have shown for the first time that bursts of star formation have a major impact far beyond the boundaries of their host galaxy. ...
- 10:30 UTC ESA Top News Global experts agree action needed on space debris There is an urgent need to remove orbiting space debris and to fly satellites in the future without creating new fragments, Europe’s largest-ever space-debris conference announced today.
- 09:49 UTC Universe Awareness ... Comet Makes a Splash on Jupiter Jupiter is a gas giant and the largest planet in our Solar System, containing 70% of the mass of all the other planets combined! When scientists named Jupiter a gas ...
- 09:49 UTC Universe Awareness ... Un cometa que causó sensación en Júpiter Júpiter es un gigante gaseoso y el planeta mayor de nuestro Sistema Solar, conteniendo el 70% de la masa de todos los otros planetas juntos. Cuando los científicos llamaron a ...
- 07:53 UTC ESA Top News Against-the-clock rehearsal for Station immunology test Simply getting anything into space is tough, but doing so against a strict deadline can be really stressful. Researchers in an ESA’s laboratory nervously checked the clock as they extracted ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA Breaking News NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings.
- 04:00 UTC Japan Aerospace Exp... [release] Japan-Italy Cooperation Event Japan and Italy: ... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the "Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI, Italian