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28 Jan 2021
- 15:17 UTC Parabolic Arc Big Research with Small Satellites Artist’s impression of the SOMP2b satellite. (Credit: TU Dresden/Tino Schmiel) On January 24, 2021, the SOMP2b small satellite was launched into space with a Falcon 9 rocket at 4:00 p.m. ...
- 15:01 UTC Universe Today Astronomers Find a Planet Like Jupiter, but It Doesn’t Ha... Can you picture Jupiter without any observable clouds or haze? It isn’t easy since Jupiter’s latitudinal cloud bands and its Great Red Spot are iconic visual features in our Solar ...
- 14:12 UTC Parabolic Arc LIST & Gradal Announce Joint Luxembourg Lab Producing Ult... Ultra-lightweight technology. (Credit: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology) LUXEMBOURG (LIST PR) — The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) is thrilled to announce a new partnership venture with ...
- 13:00 UTC OrbitalHub 2020 NASA dicit: Globally, 2020 was the hottest year on record, effectively tying 2016, the previous record. Overall, Earth’s average temperature has risen more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1880s. ...
- 12:46 UTC SPACE.com Sirius XM's newest satellite, SXM-7, has failed in orbit
- 12:28 UTC SPACE.com NASA's Mars rover Perseverance is in the home stretch of ...
- 12:26 UTC SPACE.com The lessons learned from the fatal Challenger shuttle dis...
- 12:24 UTC Space News NASA prepares for Mars 2020 landing WASHINGTON — NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is on track for a landing next month that will begin in earnest an effort to return samples of the planet to Earth.The spacecraft, ...
- 12:17 UTC SPACE.com Extreme black holes probably have 'hair'
- 12:00 UTC AmericaSpace Spacewalkers Complete Columbus Upgrades, Look Ahead to Mo...
- 11:46 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA’s Perseverance Rover 22 Days From Mars Landing This illustration shows the events that occur in the final minutes of the nearly seven-month journey that NASA’s Perseverance rover takes to Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly ...
- 11:04 UTC astrobites Put A Ring On It Title: Can planetary rings explain the extremely low density of HIP 41378 f?Authors: B. Akinsanmi, N. C. Santos, J. P. Faria, M. Oshagh, S. C. C. Barros, A. Santerne and ...
- 10:35 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA’s Artemis Base Camp on the Moon Will Need Light, Wat... An astronaut descends the ladder to explore the lunar surface. (Credit: NASA) By Lonnie ShekhtmanNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center GREENBELT, Md. — American astronauts in 2024 will take their first ...
- 10:22 UTC Space News Electron launch demonstrated enhanced kick stage WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab stretched the performance of the kick stage of its Electron rocket on its most recent launch, the first in a series of milestones the company has ...
- 06:00 UTC collectSPACE.com: S... US Mint marks 35 years since Challenger with 'Teacher in ...
- 05:50 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2021-01-27 SA: DanièlSO: FredOthers: Thabelo (for SCAM)------------------------------------------------------------------------Summary------------------------------------------------------------------------We managed to complete 5 blocks before humidity forced us to close.The remainder of the night was spent completing closed dome calibrations.Science data taken for:2016-2-COM-001 ...
- 04:04 UTC Cosmic Log New study links sleep cycles to moon cycles A newly published study adds to the long-debated evidence that humans are hard-wired to sleep less when the moon is full or the lights are on, probably due to the ...
- 01:24 UTC Parabolic Arc Rocket Lab Demonstrates New Orbital Maneuvering Capabilit... Electron launches with OHB satellite. (Credit: Rocket Lab webcast) Launched just six months after contract signing, Rocket Lab’s ‘Another One Leaves The Crust’ mission demonstrated the longest on-orbit burn to ...
- 01:06 UTC Parabolic Arc Space Flight Laboratory Announces Successful Launch of 12... HawkEye 360 RF geolocating microsatellite constellation. (Credit: SFL) TORONTO, 25 January 2021 (SFL PR) – Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), a developer of complete microspace missions, today announced the launch and ...
- 00:45 UTC Space News Firefly Aerospace seeking to raise $350 million WASHINGTON — Small launch vehicle developer Firefly Aerospace, nearing its first orbital launch attempt, is looking to raise $350 million to scale up production and work on a new, larger ...
- 00:40 UTC Parabolic Arc MDA Appoints New Vice President of Satellite Systems BRAMPTON, Ont. (MDA PR) — MDA is pleased to welcome Amer Khouri as the company’s new Vice President of Satellite Systems. As the leader for this business, Mr. Khouri will ...
- 00:02 UTC Universe Today Space and Sustainability: How the Lessons of B2 Inspired ...
27 Jan 2021
- 22:59 UTC Cosmosphere Quantum Internet Possible With Drones IMAGE: A fleet of drones could create a quantum network by transmitting quantum particles among the fleet’s formation and relaying the particles to ground stations at various locations within a ...
- 22:59 UTC CosmoQuest Quantum Internet Possible With Drones IMAGE: A fleet of drones could create a quantum network by transmitting quantum particles among the fleet’s formation and relaying the particles to ground stations at various locations within a ...
- 22:58 UTC CosmoQuest World Record Laser Link Could Help Prove Einstein Was Rig... IMAGE: UWA’s rooftop observatory. CREDIT: ICRAR. One of the more annoying limiting factors in doing a lot of science is our atmosphere. Place-to-place variations in temperature, humidity, and other factors ...
- 22:58 UTC Cosmosphere World Record Laser Link Could Help Prove Einstein Was Rig... IMAGE: UWA’s rooftop observatory. CREDIT: ICRAR. One of the more annoying limiting factors in doing a lot of science is our atmosphere. Place-to-place variations in temperature, humidity, and other factors ...
- 22:56 UTC Cosmosphere Galaxy Collisions Can Starve Massive Black Holes IMAGE: Artist’s impression of gas being pulled away from a galactic nucleus. CREDIT: Miki et al., 2021 In a paper appearing in Nature Astronomy and led by Yohei Miki, researchers ...
- 22:56 UTC CosmoQuest Galaxy Collisions Can Starve Massive Black Holes IMAGE: Artist’s impression of gas being pulled away from a galactic nucleus. CREDIT: Miki et al., 2021 In a paper appearing in Nature Astronomy and led by Yohei Miki, researchers ...
- 22:52 UTC CosmoQuest Tidal Dwarf Galaxy Provides Evidence of Star Formation IMAGE: A tidal dwarf galaxy (blue) and a spiral galaxy (greyscale). The Milky Way is an example of a spiral galaxy. CREDIT: Hubble Space Telescope / ALMA One of my ...
- 22:52 UTC Cosmosphere Tidal Dwarf Galaxy Provides Evidence of Star Formation IMAGE: A tidal dwarf galaxy (blue) and a spiral galaxy (greyscale). The Milky Way is an example of a spiral galaxy. CREDIT: Hubble Space Telescope / ALMA One of my ...
- 22:50 UTC CosmoQuest TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets All Have Very Similar Compositions IMAGE: Measuring the mass and diameter of a planet reveals its density, which can give scientists clues about its composition. Scientists now know the density of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets ...
- 22:50 UTC Cosmosphere TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets All Have Very Similar Compositions IMAGE: Measuring the mass and diameter of a planet reveals its density, which can give scientists clues about its composition. Scientists now know the density of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets ...
- 22:47 UTC CosmoQuest First Cloudless Hot Jupiter Discovered IMAGE: Artist illustration of exoplanet WASP-62b. The illustration is drawn from the perspective of an observer nearby to the planet. CREDIT: M. Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian It ...
- 22:47 UTC Cosmosphere First Cloudless Hot Jupiter Discovered IMAGE: Artist illustration of exoplanet WASP-62b. The illustration is drawn from the perspective of an observer nearby to the planet. CREDIT: M. Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian It ...
- 22:47 UTC Cosmic Log Jeff Bezos kicks back with a fiery rocket engine test If you’re hanging out in West Texas during a pandemic, there are few fireworks shows more thrilling than a test firing of your very own rocket engine. At least that’s ...
- 22:45 UTC CosmoQuest TOI-178 With Six Planets in Orbital Resonance Challenges ... IMAGE: This artist’s impression shows the view from the planet in the TOI-178 system found orbiting furthest from the star. It is based on the known physical parameters for the ...
- 22:45 UTC Cosmosphere TOI-178 With Six Planets in Orbital Resonance Challenges ... IMAGE: This artist’s impression shows the view from the planet in the TOI-178 system found orbiting furthest from the star. It is based on the known physical parameters for the ...
- 22:43 UTC CosmoQuest Lots of water in the world’s most explosive volcano IMAGE: Shiveluch is one of the biggest and most active of a line of volcanoes that follow the spine of the Kamchatka Peninsula in easternmost Russia. The volcanoes and peninsula ...
- 22:43 UTC Cosmosphere Lots of water in the world’s most explosive volcano IMAGE: Shiveluch is one of the biggest and most active of a line of volcanoes that follow the spine of the Kamchatka Peninsula in easternmost Russia. The volcanoes and peninsula ...
- 22:16 UTC SPACE.com Hot Wheels Perseverance lands in stores ahead of rover on...
- 21:53 UTC Geekwire Jeff Bezos kicks back with full-thrust firing of Blue Ori... Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine lights up for a full-thrust test firing in Texas. (Jeff Bezos via Instagram)If you’re hanging out in West Texas during a pandemic, there are few ...
- 21:52 UTC Space News Lawmakers amp up pressure on Biden to investigate Space C... WASHINGTON — Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) on Jan. 27 added his voice to the chorus of lawmakers demanding that the Biden administration investigate the Air Force’s decision to move U.S. ...
- 20:51 UTC SPACE.com Spacewalking astronauts tackle European lab upgrade at sp...
- 20:50 UTC Space News U.S. Space Force acquisitions to get fresh look, lawmaker... WASHINGTON — Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), a leading proponent of establishing the U.S. Space Force, said he wants the Biden administration to put pressure on the service to clean up ...
- 20:13 UTC SPACE.com The full moon may influence sleep and menstrual cycles, s...
- 19:30 UTC SpaceFlight Insider Cable issues prevent spacewalkers from finishing Bartolom... A view of the front of the International Space Station. The Bartolomeo platform, which was not yet installed when this photo was taken, is located on the forward side of ...
- 19:02 UTC Universe Today All The Gravitational Waves Detected So Far
- 18:22 UTC Coalition for Deep ... Today’s Deep Space Extra In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Victor Glover, one of 18 astronauts selected by NASA to train for the Artemis program, embarked on an International Space Station spacewalk early Wednesday with ...
- 18:09 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... Precision measurements of intracluster light suggest poss...
- 18:00 UTC SPACE.com First look: EXO-6 is beaming up a hyper-detailed First Co...

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