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30 Jul 2021
- 22:30 UTC Astronomy.com News International Space Station saved from out-of-control spi...
- 19:46 UTC Cosmic Log GAO rejects challenges to SpaceX’s lunar lander contract The Government Accountability Office today turned back protests from Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Alabama-based Dynetics, ruling that NASA was within its rights to award a single $2.9 ...
- 19:00 UTC Astronomy.com News The Sky This Week: Saturn reaches opposition
- 14:30 UTC The Planetary Socie... We Love to Buggy This week marked the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 15 mission to the Moon, which launched on July 26, 1971 and landed on July 30. This photo shows mission commander ...
- 13:00 UTC Bad Astronomy Psyche is the most metal asteroid: It may have volcanoes ... I'm very excited about the Psyche mission. Due to launch next year, this NASA spacecraft will arrive at its target in the main asteroid belt four years later: The odd ...
- 05:30 UTC Astronomy.com News A deluge of blinking lights is changing how astronomers w...
29 Jul 2021
- 23:30 UTC io9 Space It's Once Again Time to Hopelessly Dream About Doctor Who...
- 23:19 UTC Space News Station loses attitude control after Nauka docking, Starl...
- 22:33 UTC NASA Commercial Cre... Earliest Launch Opportunity for NASA’s Boeing OFT-2 Missi... On July 29, 2021, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch ...
- 22:25 UTC Spaceflight Now High anxiety as Russian lab module tilts space station wi... STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSIONNASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough tweeted this view of the newly-arrived Nauka module at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Shane KimbroughA heavyweight Russian ...
- 21:57 UTC Not Even Wrong More of the Same (Physics, Math and Unification) I was going to just provide the following links with a some comments, but decided it would be a good idea to put them into what seems to me the ...
- 21:38 UTC Parabolic Arc Space Station Stable After Earlier Unplanned MLM Thruster... Nauka module docked at the International Space Station. (Credit: Roscosmos) HOUSTON (NASA PR) — Following the docking of the Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), named Nauka, to the International Space Station ...
- 21:31 UTC The Mars Society JPL’s Vandi Verma to Give Update on Rover Mission Navigat... Dr. Vandi Verma, JPL Supervisor of Operable Robotics for Mars Perseverance and Mars Curiosity, will provide a virtual update about navigating the two rover missions on the surface of Mars ...
- 21:07 UTC Universe Today The Event Horizon Telescope Zooms in on Another Supermass... Thanks to research performed by the EHT Collaboration team during a six-hour observation period in 2017, astronomers are now being treated to images of the core region of Centaurus A ...
- 20:49 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... A Summer of Fire-Breathing Smoke Storms For decades, scientists have been tracking extreme thunderstorms created by wildfires. However, the ferocity of the storms that have popped up in Canada in 2021 has surprised them. Read More...
- 20:20 UTC SPACE.com Boeing Starliner OFT-2 launch to space station delayed fo...
- 20:20 UTC Behind the Black Nauka engines fire unexpectedly after docking; forces can... The soap opera of the Nauka module to ISS became even more dramatic today when its engines fired unexpectedly after its docking, causing the station to shift in orbit and ...
- 20:10 UTC Behind the Black The view of Jezero Crater, from both Ingenuity and Persev... Click for full image. Cool image time! Today the Perseverance science team released the 200 images that Ingeniuty took during its 10th flight on July 24, 2021.The photo to the ...
- 20:09 UTC Women in Planetary ... Dr. Joceyln Bell Burnell – Short Documentary Hey all! For those who haven’t seen it yet, there is a moving, 15-minute documentary about Dr. Bell Burnell on the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/opinion/pulsars-jocelyn-bell-burnell-astronomy.html?referringSource=articleShare This documentary is in line with our ...
- 19:58 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com Chinese Long March 2D carries Tianhui survey satellite in... A Chinese Long March 2D rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia at 04:01 UTC today, July 29, carrying Tianhui 1-04, the fourth in China’s ...
- 19:51 UTC NASA: Space Shuttle... NASA Invites Media to International Space Station Update
- 19:43 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA, Boeing Postpone Starliner Launch Scheduled for Frid... The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force ...
- 19:42 UTC NASA Blogs NASA Prepares Three More CubeSat Payloads for Artemis I M... Two more secondary payloads that will travel to deep space on the Artemis I mission were integrated for launch on July 23, and another is ready for installation at NASA’s ...
- 19:36 UTC NASA Space Station ... Update to NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 Mission NASA and Boeing have decided to stand down from Friday’s launch attempt of the agency’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission. Currently, launch teams are assessing the next available opportunity. The move ...
- 19:36 UTC NASA Commercial Cre... Update to NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 Mission NASA and Boeing have decided to stand down from Friday’s launch attempt of the agency’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission. Currently, launch teams are assessing the next available opportunity. The move ...
- 19:15 UTC Space News Biden taps Aerospace Corp.’s John Plumb to run DoD space ...
- 19:11 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... First detection of light echoes from behind a black hole
- 19:06 UTC Behind the Black Atomic oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere, as seen by Al-Amal The UAE’s Al-Amal Mars orbiter on July 19, 2021 released a new spectroscopic image, showing the global distribution of atomic oxygen in the Martian upper atmosphere.The Emirates Ultraviolet Spectrometer (EMUS) ...
- 19:05 UTC Parabolic Arc New Russian ISS Nauka Module Starts Firing Thrusters Rand... Nauka module docked at the International Space Station. (Credit: Roscosmos) by Douglas MessierManaging Editor Russia’s new Nauka module started firing its thrusters randomly after it docked with the International Space ...
- 19:00 UTC Women in Astronomy Crosspost: Bullying and harassment are rife in astronomy,... Written By: Phillip Ball for NatureBar chart displaying the results of a survey on experiences of bullying and harassment in the Royal Astronomical Society community. Credit: Royal Astronomical SocietyBullying and ...
- 19:00 UTC Discover The Search for Alien Artifacts Begins Make way, SETI (aka the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). There’s a new game in town, which might be called SETA (the Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts), though it’s officially known as ...
- 18:38 UTC NASA Space Station ... Space Station Stable After Earlier Unplanned MLM Thruster... July 29, 2021: International Space Station Configuration. Three spaceships are docked at the space station including the SpaceX Crew Dragon and Russia’s Soyuz MS-18 crew ship and ISS Progress 78 ...
- 18:37 UTC SPACE.com Russia's Nauka module briefly tilts space station with un...
- 18:32 UTC SpaceFlight Insider Nauka drama: Module thrusters fire errantly while docked ... Nauka as seen from the Cupola module on the U.S. side of the ISS. Credit: NASAJust hours after safely docking with the International Space Station, the Nauka module’s thrusters began ...
- 17:54 UTC SPACE.com Boeing's Starliner capsule rolls out to pad ahead of cruc...
- 17:10 UTC Behind the Black For the first time astronomers measure the rotation of ex... The uncertainty of science: Using the Keck Telescope in Hawaii astronomers for the first time have measured the rotation of several exoplanets orbiting the star HR8799, about 129 light years ...
- 17:08 UTC Physics World Blog Moon-forming disc is spotted around a giant exoplanet Evidence of a possible moon-forming region has been discovered surrounding a giant, newly forming exoplanet. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile, astronomers have spotted a disc ...
- 17:02 UTC Space News Inmarsat unveils multi-orbit Orchestra constellation
- 16:57 UTC Behind the Black Scientists: Clay, not liquid water, explains radar data u... The uncertainty of science: In a new paper scientists claim that clay materials, not liquid water, better explain the radar data obtained by orbital satellites, initially hypothesized to be liquid ...
- 16:54 UTC What's Up? The Spac... BOEING STARLINER SET FOR LIFTOFF TO ISS ON FRIDAY Hey Space Placers! The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape ...
- 16:47 UTC Behind the Black India officially delays launch of its next lunar rover to... The new colonial movement: India has now officially delayed the launch of its next lunar rover, Chandrayaan-3, to the third quarter of 2022.Chandrayaan-3 was planned to demonstrate India’s capability of ...
- 16:39 UTC Behind the Black China’s Long March 2D rocket launches earth observation s... China today successfully used its Long March 2D rocket to launch an earth observation satellite into orbit.The launch was from one of China’s interior spaceports, so the expendable first stage ...
- 16:30 UTC SPACE.com Mars' buried polar 'lakes' may just be frozen clay
- 16:30 UTC SPACE.com Move asteroids now before they become a threat, researche...
- 16:21 UTC Behind the Black Nauka finally docks with ISS The configuration of the Russian portion of ISS withNauka and the as-yet launched docking hub. This morning the new fullsize module to ISS, Nauka, finally docked with the station, ending ...
- 16:00 UTC AAS Nova Shaping “Ears” in Planetary Nebulae by Early Jets Muhammad Akashi and Noam Soker 2021 ApJ 913 91New 3D hydrodynamical simulations show that jets that precede the ejection of the main planetary nebula shell can form the morphological feature ...
- 15:58 UTC Centauri Dreams Sublimation Producing Water Vapor on Ganymede Hubble observations from the past two decades have been recently re-examined as a way of investigating what is happening in the tenuous atmosphere of Ganymede, the largest moon in the ...
- 15:31 UTC Discover This Cyclic Model of the Universe Has Cosmologists Rethin...
- 15:24 UTC Physics World Blog Protecting self-driving cars from cosmic rays, size limit... As you listen to this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, your phone will be struck by particles created by collisions of cosmic rays with atoms in the atmosphere. ...
- 15:20 UTC SpaceFlight Insider Long-delayed Nauka science module finally reaches space s... Nauka approaches the International Space Station for docking. Credit: RoscosmosThe Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module Nauka, delayed by nearly 15 years, has finally docked with the International Space Station.Docking took place ...

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