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Latest Space News 2011-10-06

Robert Brand — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:25:06 +0000

Comets were responsible for Earth's oceans; MESSENGER Team Presents New Mercury Findings at Planetary Conference; Space Observatory Provides Clues to Creation of Earth's Oceans; Mars Science Laboratory Meets its Match in Florida; AIP FYI: NRC Report on NASA's Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs; NASA Announces News Briefing On Next Earth Science Launch; NASA Takes Oct. 8 Moon Event to an International Level; You've Got Asteroids: Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan Reborn As Space ...; Did Earth's oceans come from comets?; 3 Weird Alien Planets Found Around Sun-Like Star; Super-Old Supernovas Spotted Across the Universe; Huge Mars Crater an 'Intriguing' Target for Next NASA Rover; Molecular Cloud Cepheus B Is a Hot Spot for Star Formation [...]

Latest Space News 2011-10-05

Robert Brand — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:30:58 +0000

Spectacular Photo Captures Astronaut's Last Day in Space; Takeoff For Tiangong; Novel design approach offers vehicle for space innovation; Russia's Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket orbits Glonass satellite; NASA's new plan for massive rocket greeted with enthusiasm, criticism; ESA spacecraft reveal new anatomy around a black hole; Enceladus Weather Includes Snow Flurries; Extreme Space Weather at Mercury Blasts the Planet's Poles; Draconid Meteor Outburst; Arianespace to launch Mexican satellite Mexsat 3; The Strange Attraction of Gale Crater; NASA's Next Generation Spacecraft Brought to Life by a New Generation of Students; Space Telescopes Reveal Secrets of Turbulent Black Hole; Weird Exoplanetary System Dances to the Beat; The Most Distant and Ancient Supernovae In The Young Universe; First Vega starts journey to Europe's Spaceport; Pack Your Skis for Saturn's Enceladus; NASA, Google, and Lenovo Team Up for Space Station Educational Project [...]

Latest Space News 2011-10-04

Robert Brand — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:55:11 +0000

Nobel Prize 'Inevitable' for Accelerating Universe Discover... ; Astrophysicists Share Nobel -- and a Mystery; How Did Nobel-Winning Physicists Discover the Expanding Universe's Acceleration?; Nasa chief stresses global cooperation; How to Spot China's New Space Laboratory in Night Sky; NASA Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report 4 October 2011; Saturn's Geyser Moon Enceladus Shows off for NASA's Cassini; Saul Perlmutter Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics; NASA Ames to Celebrate Moon at Festive Event; Explosive Studies of Universe's Expansion Win Nobel Prize i...; NASA to Kids: Name Our Twin Moon Gravity Probes; To Deflect Killer Asteroids, Humanity Must Work Together; Weird Bubble-Blowing Dwarf Galaxy Spotted by Hubble Telescope; EDRS: an independent data-relay system for Europe becoming reality; NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Studies Rock Interior; Obama under fire over space plans. [...]

Latest Space News 2011-10-01/02/03

Robert Brand — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:18:36 +0000

Cassini Buzzes Cracked and Cratered Enceladus; Best of ERS: 20 years of observing Earth; NASA To Seek Applicants For Next Astronaut Candidate Class; NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars; NASA Mars Rovers Win Popular Mechanics 'Breakthrough' Award; NASA Invites Students to Name Moon-Bound Spacecraft; NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Begins New Vesta Mapping Orbit; Alma will reveal secrets of the universe previously hidden to astronomers; Alma will give us a glimpse back in time to the beginnings of the universe; Grail lunar probes will use gravity to map the inside of the moon; Secret Mission of Air Force's X-37B Robot Space Plane May G...; China's Next Step in Space: Critical Docking Demo in November; Wow! Skywatcher Photographs Huge Solar Flare from Giant Sun... [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-30

Robert Brand — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:55:32 +0000

Mars Express finds water supersaturation in the Martian atmosphere; Wow! Skywatcher Photographs Huge Solar Flare from Giant Sun...; Harold Urey's lunar landing sites (1961); SpaceX Unveils Plan for World's First Fully Reusable Rocket; Vast Cosmic Filament Discovered Connecting Milky Way to the Universe; Hidden Galaxies of the Observable Universe (Today's Most Popular); The Mysterious Earthlike "Xanadu" of Saturn's Titan; NASA Internal Memo: Farewell Note from Doug Cooke [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-29

Robert Brand — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:52:34 +0000

Under a 'Frankenstein' Moon: Astronomer Sleuths Solve Mary ...; Rocket Fueled for China's 1st Space Lab Module Launch Thursday ; Space Launch System Core Stage Engines; Physics of the Cosmos Program; Draft AO for Earth Venture Instruments Released for Community Comment; Another Dead Satellite to Fall From Space in November; Proof Is in the Cosmos: Einstein's General Relativity Confirmed [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-28

Robert Brand — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:48:18 +0000

Under a 'Frankenstein' Moon: Astronomer Sleuths Solve Mary ...; Rocket Fueled for China's 1st Space Lab Module Launch Thursday ; NASA Solicitation: Space Launch System Core Stage Engines; Physics of the Cosmos Program; Draft AO for Earth Venture Instruments Released for Community Comment; Another Dead Satellite to Fall From Space in November; Proof Is in the Cosmos: Einstein's General Relativity Confirmed [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-27

Robert Brand — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:32:54 +0000

PlusComms to Create a Global Space Network; City-Size Neutron Stars Collide, Unleash Radio Shockwaves; Final Update: NASA's UARS Re-enters Earth's Atmosphere; Kennedy Space Center sees plan for landmark overhaul; 'Fried Egg' Nebula Cracks Open Rare Hypergiant Star; Using Quasars to Measure the Cosmos --Key to Unraveling the Mystery of Dark Energy; 1st Light-Absorbing "Dark Exo Planet" Discovered; Rohrabacher Demands Release of NASA's Recent On-Orbit Fuel Depot Analysis; OSU partners with NASA; The Sounds Of NASA Available For Download; World's First DNA Astronauts to Launch Into Space. [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-26

Robert Brand — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:14:38 +0000

PlusComms to Create a Global Space Network; Engineer Special Study of the Surface of the Moon (1960, 1961); US & China: Space Race or Cosmic Cooperation?; Sea Launch Returns to Flight with Smooth Satellite Flight; Space Radiation Expected to Rise for Airline Passengers and Astronauts; Japanese Spy Satellite in Orbit After Successful Launch; Stars Signal Existence of Dark-Matter Objects --"Primordial Black Holes"; Supernova Shockwave -The Death Ray of the Universe?; Image of the Day: The Pencil Nebula Supernova; NASA Spacecraft Reveals New Details Of Planet Mercury; NASA Partners Uncover New Hypothesis On Crater Debris; Mythbusting for Tiangong; Lockheed Martin Completes Primary Structure of NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft; Lockheed Martin-Built BSAT-3c/JCSAT-110R Satellite Handed Over to Japanese Customers; China prepares to launch first space lab module this week; NOAA SWPC Space Weather Bulletin #11- 4 [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-24/25

Robert Brand — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:42:28 +0000

PlusComms to Create a Global Space Network; Huge Sun Storm Should Super-Charge Northern Lights Tonight; Does NASA Have A Contingency Plan For Crashing Satellites?; New Photos Show Blazingly Bright Uranus & Neptune in Infrared; MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Crater Statsu; NASA Completes Orion Spacecraft Parachute Testing In Arizona; China to Launch First Space Lab This Week; Image of the Day: Galaxy M82 -Home of a Mystery Signal Unlike Anything in the Known Universe; Our Universe Continually Cycles through a Series of 'Aeons'; Are the Oldest Galaxies Much Older Than Previously Thought?; Primitive Black Holes Could Shine Light on Dark Matter; October's Draconid Meteor Shower Will Impress, If You Can See It; Potentially Damaging Meteor Shower in October Highlights Ri...; Sunspot 1302 Big Bad And Coming Right At Us; Russia to resume deep space explorations with Phobos expedition; Students Participate in Plant Investigation With Space Station Crew; New packaging for old US rocket; NASA Posts Global Exploration Roadmap [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-22/23

Robert Brand — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:34:59 +0000

PlusComms to Create a Global Space Network; Tumbling Satellite Could Fall over Canada, Africa or Austra... ; FAA Warns Pilots to Watch for Falling NASA Satellite Debris; Crashing Satellite's Debris Region Predicted: 500 Miles of ... ; Photo: Sand Dunes in Junggar Basin, Northwestern China As Seen From Space; NASA Cassini Image of Saturn's Moon Enceladus; NASA Cassini Significant Events for 09/14/11 - 09/20/11; NASA Posts Heavy-Lift Acquisition Strategy; NASA set to fund space taxi systems; New Insights on the Mystery of an Invisible Dark-Matter Galaxy; Discovery Nixes Einstein --Neutrino Found Faster than the Speed of Light; Exploring an asteroid with the Desert RATS; Russian space agency needs reforms - Roscosmos head; NASA to fund 'space taxis'; Living in the Galactic Danger Zone [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-21

Robert Brand — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:29:32 +0000

Searching For The Origins Of The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid; BepiColombo Mercury explorer to be launched on Ariane; Labor Strike Forces Delay of European Rocket Launch; Falling NASA Satellite Could Spark Stunning Light Show; Neil Armstrong to Discuss NASA's Future With Congress Thursday; NASA Wants You: Space Agency Launches App Competition; Earth Pictures - Global View of Earth in the Near-Infrared; Killer Asteroids; Doomed NASA Satellite Spotted in Amateur Astronomer Video; Image of the Day --Strange Quantum Star Found in Supernova; Update: CERN's Search for the Hidden Mass of the Universe; Is Life is a Natural Planetary Phenomenon? Harvard's Sasselov says "Yes"; See what NASA is asking for in privatized crew taxis; ISS-bound astronauts confident in Russian launch system. [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-20

Robert Brand — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:21:55 +0000

NASA Picks Boeing For Composite Cryogenic Propellant Tank Tests; Northrop Grumman Begins Tests on Full-Size Sunshield Layers for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope; QinetiQ North America and NASA Advance Space Travel with First Forward Osmosis Experiments in Microgravity; NASA to Pay $1.6 Billion for Private Space Taxi Flights; China to Launch Space Station Test Module Next Week; Spinning white dwarf bombs may lurk the galaxy; The Search for 'Snoopy': Astronomers & Students Hunt for NASA's Lost Apollo 10 Module; Image of the Day --The Strange Beauty of a Monster Asteroidscape; Are Primordial Black Holes --Remnants of the Big Bang-- the Source of the Universe's Dark Matter?; WISE Raises Doubt About Asteroid Family Believed Responsible for Dinosaur Extinction; Astronauts Set to Become Aquanauts for Undersea 'Asteroid' Mission; FEMA Prepared for Dead NASA Satellite's Plunge to Earth Thi.... [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-18/19

Robert Brand — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:06:57 +0000

Pandora, Enceladus and Company --Saturn's Moons in a Rare Spectacular Alignment; Neutron Star Mystery Confounds Existing Science; NASA Spending Bill Boosts Hubble Telescope Successor, Funds Commercial Crew; NASA Announces 15th Undersea NEEMO Exploration Mission Date And Crew; MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Prominent Rays From A Crater; Cassini Image of Saturn's Moon Enceladus; NASA's $500 Million Launch Platform for Scrapped Rocket Could Find New Life; NASA's Future on Space Station Hinges on Private Spaceships; China Launches Military Satellite 1 Month After Rocket Failure; NASA's Webb Telescope Completes Mirror Coating Milestone; NASA Administrator To Speak At 2011 Air And Space Conference; Astronomers confirm first planet orbiting two stars. [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-17

Robert Brand — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:13:17 +0000

Photos Then and Now: Space Shuttle Enterprise Rolled out 35 Years Ago Today; Project Mercury Overview; Astronomy 101 - Big Numbers; Vesta's odd bottom; Astronomers Plan Last Look at Asteroid 1999 RQ36 Before OSIRIS-REx Launch; Ariane rocket to hoist Europe-Japan mission to Mercury; Crew safely returns to Earth after crash; NASA Announces Design For New Deep Space Exploration System; Arianespace to launch up to four satellites for DIRECTV; ERS satellite missions complete after 20 years; Milky Way's spiral arms are the product of an intergalactic collision course; UCSB Scientist Contributes to First Discovery of a Planet With Two 'Suns'; NASA alters commercial spacecraft partnering; NASA Announces Two Game-Changing Space Technology Projects; Ultrasecret satellite spy shop NRO turns 50; NASA Rover Finds Rare Mars Rock With Clues of Ancient Water; AURA Applauds Senate Action on JWST. [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-16

Robert Brand — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:13:22 +0000

Space Station Crew to Return to Earth Tonight; American Astronautical Society Statement on NASA's SLS Decision; Statement by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Senate Funding to Restore American Human Spaceflight Capability; Next Space Station Crew Will Launch Nov. 14, NASA Says; Cabana: Big rocket could add 2,000 KSC jobs; NASA: Satellite re-entry expected around Sept. 24; How to Spot Giant Asteroid Ceres in Telescopes; New Exoplanet Discovery: Is Life Imitating Star Wars; Exoplanet Portraits: Direct Images of Other Worlds; NASA Mars Research Helps Find Buried Water on Earth; ORBCOMM Prepares for Launch of AIS Satellite; Opportunity on Verge of New Discovery; Bright Green Fireball Amazes Skywatchers in Southwest US; Astronomers discover a wretched hive of scum and villainy. [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-15

Robert Brand — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:57:22 +0000

Latest Space News 2011-09-15

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Dwarf “Dark-Matter” Sagittarius Galaxy Smashed into the Milky Way Twice

Thursday, 15 September 2011 17:58 A dwarf galaxy named Sagittarius loaded with dark [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-14

Robert Brand — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:53:44 +0000

Latest Space News 2011-09-14

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NASA makes rocket deal with ATK

Wednesday, 14 September 2011 17:06

NASA and ATK ink partnership focused on Liberty rocket. SpaceX engine anomaly [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-13

Robert Brand — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:50:07 +0000

Latest Space News 2011-09-13

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Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 13 September 2011

Wednesday, 14 September 2011 10:28 Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity [...]

Latest Space News 2011-09-12

Robert Brand — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:09:01 +0000

China's Space Dreams Ride on Robotic Docking Test; Ball Aerospace To Develop Cryogenic Storage and Transfer Concepts for NASA; MESSENGER Team Delivers First Orbital Data to Planetary Data System; NASA Sits Tight as Unmanned Space Station Considered; United Launch Alliance Launches GRAIL Spacecrafts To Moon; European satellite in French Guiana launch; Starwatch: The truth about the supernova and the comet. [...]