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17 Jun 2018
- 20:27 UTC NASA Watch National Space Council User Advisory Group Is Purging Inn... Keith's note: Newt Gingrich and Pete Worden have been removed from the UAG for reasons that sources say have to do with issues that arouse while vetting Gingrich and Worden ...
- 19:57 UTC Astro Watch Proposed CAESAR Mission to Return a Sample from Comet 67P... A proposed space mission known as Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR), could greatly improve our knowledge about the origin and history of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. If selected by NASA, ...
- 18:46 UTC Parabolic Arc ISS Astronauts Install HD Cameras for Commercial Crew Fli... NASA Correction, June 14, 2018: This post has been updated to clarify the timing of the first uncrewed test missions, which are planned for later this year.Editor’s Note: The original ...
- 18:39 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Long suspected theory about the moon holds water Scientists have discovered a mineral known as moganite in a lunar meteorite found in a hot desert in northwest Africa.
- 18:33 UTC Astro Bob Juno Discovers That Jupiter’s Lightning Is Like Earth’s This artist’s concept of lightning distribution in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere incorporates a JunoCam image with artistic embellishments. Data from NASA’s Juno mission indicates that most of the lightning activity on ...
- 18:24 UTC Space-For-All at Ho... Video: TMRO Orbit 11.24 – “The different personalities of...
- 18:18 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 04FEB2018
- 18:14 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 03FEB2018
- 17:21 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France, Netherlands Fireb...
- 16:31 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... What’s Happening in Space Policy June 17-23, 2018 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of June 17-23, 2018 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in the ...
- 14:44 UTC AmericaSpace Ride, Sally Ride: 35 Years Since America’s First Woman in...
- 14:16 UTC Parabolic Arc ESA Council Backs Lunar Gateway & Exploration, Mars Sampl... The space station formerly known as the Deep Space Gateway (Credit: NASA)PARIS (ESA PR) — Over the past 18 months, ESA and its Member States have gathered in a series ...
- 14:00 UTC Astronaut.com NASA astronauts must sculpt freakishly strong arms to wor... Here’s how former space station commander Peggy Whitson trainedPeggy Whitson suited up for her 200th space walk. NASANASA astronauts readily admit that being able to float in space is a ...
- 12:54 UTC Insight Observatory The Awesomeness of the Universe "Appreciate the Awesomeness of the Universe..." This was the theme 8th-grade science teacher, Aaron Daniels, from the Plymouth Community Intermediate School, implemented when he brought two of his science classes ...
- 11:57 UTC Space Fellowship Mars Engulfed
- 11:40 UTC SPACE.com Life on Mars? Top 10 Martians of All Time
- 11:35 UTC SPACE.com 4 Out-of-This-World Dads Celebrate Father's Day in Space
- 11:31 UTC SPACE.com How Tidally Locked Planets Could Avoid a 'Snowball Earth'...
- 11:30 UTC SPACE.com Stealth Startup SpinLaunch Raises $40 Million for Radical...
- 11:27 UTC Astronomy Now New experiment to probe dark matter interactions This schematic shows the motion of a pulsar falling in the Milky Way’s gravitational field. The yellow arrow indicates motion due to the gravity of normal matter while the white ...
- 11:22 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Earth From Space: Special Edition It’s been years since I worked in a cleanroom, brings back memories – even fingerprints were not allowed.
- 10:50 UTC EarthSky Blog Life at Alpha Centauri? Maybe, NASA says Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to our sun. Chandra data from May 2, 2017 are shown in the inset, in context of a visible-light image of the Alpha ...
- 10:23 UTC Astro Watch China to Orbit Another Pair of BeiDou-3 Navigation Satell... China is in final preparations to launch another pair of its BeiDou-3 navigation satellites, designated BeiDou-3 M5 and M6, into orbit on Wedensday, June 20. A Long March 3B booster ...
- 10:05 UTC Parabolic Arc ESA Council Approves Completion of Ariane 5, Transition f... Ariane 6 variants (Credit: ESA–David Ducros,)PARIS — 14 June 2018 (ESA PR) — The ESA Council met today in Paris to discuss the path towards the future exploitation of Ariane ...
- 10:00 UTC SpaceFlight Insider Our SpaceFlight Heritage: The first solar observatories i... Technicians work on an OSO spacecraft. Photo Credit: NASAAs NASA prepares to launch its latest and most ambitious mission to study the Sun, it will join NASA missions launched to ...
- 10:00 UTC SpaceFlight Insider New data reveals supermassive black hole eating a star An artist’s concept of a tidal disruption event, or TDE, that happens when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive black hole, which reacts by launching a relativistic jet. ...
- 08:49 UTC Astro Watch Study May Help Humans Colonize Mars and Hunt for Alien Li... Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have contributed to an international study that will potentially help humans to colonize Mars and find life on other planets. The study on ...
- 07:54 UTC Astro Watch NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Retires NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who holds the U.S. record for most cumulative time in space, is retiring from the agency, effective Friday. “Peggy Whitson is a testament to the American ...
- 06:00 UTC All About Space Did Galileo invent the telescope? Asked by Tim WhitfieldIt is quite a common belief that Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei invented the telescope but this is not strictly true. The earliest workings towards the design of ...
- 05:50 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2018-06-16 SA: RudiSO: TheaOthers: Stephanie ----------------------------------------------------------------------Summary---------------------------------------------------------------------- The weather had us closed for the first half of the night and telescope problems prevented us from using the last half of the night. ...
- 05:08 UTC Lunar Meteorite Hun... The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 16JUN2018
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Strait of Dover Ships, trains, cars, and swimmers crowd this crossing between Britain and France.
- 01:45 UTC David Reneke's Worl... Exoplanets Can Survive In Double And Triple-Star Systems
- 00:36 UTC David Reneke's Worl... Australian Space Agency Not Going To Be NASA Down Under
- 00:12 UTC The Original Rocket... Launch Report 2018-2 - MDRA ESL-239 Location: Central Sod FarmWeather: mid-80's, wind 0-5, clearTotal flights: Today - 5; YTD - 14Total motors: Today - 6; YTD - 17Motors by class YTD: A-2, B-1, C-4, D-2, E-5, ...
16 Jun 2018
- 22:47 UTC Astro Watch Astronauts Install High-Definition Cameras Outside Intern... Two NASA astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station to perform the sixth spacewalk of 2018 at the orbiting complex. The nearly seven-hour long outing saw the duo install new ...
- 22:05 UTC Observatorio de la ... The Golden Temple, Bylakuppe, Karnataka, March 2017 Having covered October visits to Bangalore, Mount Abu, and Udaipur in earlier posts, I will step back to an earlier trip and a visit to the Golden Temple in Bylakuppe, ...
- 21:36 UTC What's Up? The Spac... SKY GUY VIEWING ALERT 6/16/18 MOON & VENUS AFTER SUNSET Hey Space Placers!All around the world people can see the Waxing Crescent Moon and brilliant Venus in the West after sunset tonight.You can't miss it.....Enjoy the view and try taking ...
- 19:45 UTC Space News Defense budget bill creates path for future network of mi... WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has to explain how it will buy communications services from the private sector to supplement military satellites, congressional appropriators said in a report last week.The language ...
- 18:29 UTC Parabolic Arc Record-Setting NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Retires Peggy Whitson aboard the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA)HOUSTON (NASA PR) — NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who holds the U.S. record for most cumulative time in space, is retiring from ...
- 17:36 UTC Astro Watch Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys S... For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when the powerful gravity of a supermassive black hole ripped apart ...
- 16:48 UTC Astro Watch Dust Clouds Can Explain Puzzling Features of Active Galac... Many large galaxies have a bright central region called an active galactic nucleus (AGN), powered by matter spiraling into a supermassive black hole. Gas clouds in an area around the ...
- 16:47 UTC Science 2.0 On The Residual Brightness Of Eclipsed Jovian Moons
- 16:23 UTC Astro Watch Long Suspected Theory About the Moon Holds Water A team of Japanese scientists led by Masahiro Kayama of Tohoku University's Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, has discovered a mineral known as moganite in a lunar meteorite found ...
- 16:20 UTC SPACE.com Chandra Space Telescope: Revealing the Invisible Universe
- 16:00 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... NASA Encounters the Perfect Storm for Science One of the thickest dust storms ever observed on Mars has been spreading for the past week and a half.
- 15:26 UTC Astro Watch Research Shows Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Do Follow Binary Ne... Researchers at Oregon State University have confirmed that last fall’s union of two neutron stars did in fact cause a short gamma-ray burst. The findings, published in Physical Review Letters, ...
- 14:48 UTC Parabolic Arc Astranis Selects Bradford’s ECAPS thrusters SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (Bradford PR) — Astranis (www.astranis.com), the San Francisco-based company building the next generation of telecommunications satellites, announced today the selection of Bradford’s (www.bradford-space.com) high performance green ECAPS ...
- 14:01 UTC Starts With a Bang! Ask Ethan: If Mass Curves Spacetime, How Does It Un-Curve... The spacetime curvature around any massive object is determined by the combination of mass and distance from the center-of-mass. Other concerns, like velocity, acceleration, and other sources of energy, must ...
- 13:54 UTC Astro Watch NASA Encounters the Perfect Storm for Science One of the thickest dust storms ever observed on Mars has been spreading for the past week and a half. The storm has caused NASA's Opportunity rover to suspend science ...

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