Latest Space News 2009-11-25 Delivered Daily!
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Source: www.physorg.com
(PhysOrg.com) — NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer |
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Source: www.physorg.com
(PhysOrg.com) — In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known “northern lights” in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness high above the ringed planet.
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| Click here for story | NASA Honors Biloxi’s Apollo Astronaut Fred Haise with Moon Rock
Source: www.nasa.gov
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will present astronaut Fred Haise, Jr., with NASA’s Ambassador of Exploration Award during a ceremony on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at the Gorenflo Elementary School in Biloxi, Miss.
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Source: www.livescience.com
Supermassive black holes are the open hearths upon which complex matter is forged; then flung far and wide.
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Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Professor Colin Pillinger was ridiculed for his failed Beagle 2 probe mission to Mars, but the instrument he invented could be used to diagnose TB.
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Shuttle astronauts bid space station fliers farewell
Source: www.spaceflightnow.com
The Atlantis astronauts used the shuttle’s maneuvering thrusters to boost the International Space Station’s altitude by more than a mile early Tuesday, participated in a change-of-command ceremon
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Air Force space plane shooting for April launch
Source: www.spaceflightnow.com
The U.S. Air Force has released new images of its experimental new X-37B space plane as the secretive mission’s launch date next April draws near.
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Source: www.spacedaily.com
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2009 – NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has contributed to the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf ever observed – a finding that, if confirmed, may solve an astronomical mystery about how these cosmic misfits are formed.
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AWI And DLR To Conduct Joint Health Research In The Antarctic
Source: www.spacedaily.com
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 24, 2009 – The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and the German Aerospace Center intend to carry out health research together. On 23 November 2009, both partners …
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Source: www.marsdaily.com
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2009 – Spirit experienced a wheel stall with the right-rear wheel during the second step of a two-step drive on Sol 2092 (Saturday, Nov. 21).
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Visual Assistance For Cosmic Blind Spots
Source: www.spacedaily.com
Garching, Germany (SPX) Nov 24, 2009 – A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn’t be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. …
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Source: www.spacedaily.com
Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 24, 2009 – The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has circulated two beams simultaneously for the first time, allowing the operators to test the synchronization of the beams and giving the experiments their first chance to look for proton-proton collisions.
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Astronaut Stott’s Journey Home Marks a First and a Last
Source: www.nasa.gov
When the wheels of space shuttle Atlantis touch down to end the STS-129 mission, astronaut Nicole Stott will complete both a first and a last.
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