... 2010 dal satellite NASA GOES-13 (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite). Tre uragani fanno bella mostra di sé: in alto nel centro ecco Danielle, in basso leggermente a sinistra Earl ed in basso a destra una nuova depressione tropicale in formazione. I satelliti della famiglia GOES monitorizzano continuamente tutta la Terra dalle loro posizioni in orbita geostaziona
Posted by News Spazio
... alive with fire as NASA and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) tested the Development Motor-2 (DM-2). The five-segment, first-stage of the Ares rocket was activated at 9:27 a. m. MDT on Aug. 31. The still morning air surrendered its silence to the sound of unleashed technological thunder. The surrounding countryside was
Posted by Universe Today
(Immagine, credit NASA/JPL-Caltech)NEWS SPAZIO :- Una stella morente circondata da una enorme nuvola di vapore d'acqua caldissimo. Come è possibile? La domanda degli scienziati adesso ha una risposta, fornita dal telescopio spaziale europeo Herscel. L'immagine che vedete mostra la stella IRC+10216 (CW Leonis) una stella ricca di carbonio localizzata nella costellazione del Leone a 650 anni luce da noi, nelle cui vicinanze appunto gli astronomi hanno trovato una gigantesaca nuvola di vapore...
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NEWS SPAZIO :- Vi propongo il seguente video che mostra la preparazione e l'imballaggio di Robonaut 2 (R2), il robot umanoide che a Novembre verrà inviato nella Stazione Spaziale Internazionale a bordo dello Space Shuttle Discovery STS-133. Qui sotto trovate l'articolo dettagliato della missione spaziale con tutti i link ad ulteriori approfondimentihttp://newsspazio. blogspot. com/2010/07/la-prossima-missione-dello-space. html Come si vede dal video è stato realizzato un contenitore p...
Posted by News Spazio
... The award is part of NASA's Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program (CRuSR), which seeks to develop commercial reusable transportation to near space for frequent, low-cost trips
Posted by Universe Today
... towards heading to space. NASA just added hundreds of images to The Commons area on the photo sharing site Flickr, and is looking for a little crowd-sourcing help to add data to the
Posted by Universe Today
... be like to know that NASA is looking over your shoulder while you're doing it?Yikes. The folks who compete on Bravo's Top Chef are about to find out:
Posted by Bad Astronomy
... dei dati della sonda NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mostrano che in un passato geologicamente recente la Luna ha avuto una contrazione a livello globale. Potrebbe quindi essere che tale processo sia attivo anche oggi. Avevo già dato questa notizia appena tornato dalle vacanze estive. La approfondiamo un pochino in questo post. Durante la sua formazione, gli intensi bombardamenti di asteroidi e meteore ed il decadimento dei suoi elementi radioattivi hanno reso l'
Posted by News Spazio
... 3 mm particle moving at 10 km/s has the kinetic energy of a bowling ball moving at 100 km/h. A 1 cm fragment has the kinetic energy of a 180 kg safe. Please visit OrbitalHub to read more...
Posted by OrbitalHub
NEWS SPAZIO :- Eccomi di nuovo on line dopo la pausa estiva. Vediamo subito cosa è successo in questi giorni. In una votazione tenutasi il 5 Agosto 2010 è stato approvato da tutto il Senato americano il "piano bipartisan" votato in precedenza dal Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Si è svolta sabato 7 Agosto 2010 la prima EVA prevista per la riparazione del guasto al sistema di refrigrazione A della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale avvenuto il 31 Luglio scorso...
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... environmentally aware. NASA has 14 science satellites in orbit
Posted by Universe Today
The private company SpaceX performed a successful "drop test" of their Dragon capsule on August 12. The Dragon capsule is what will ferry supplies and astronauts into space and to the International Space Station — and bring them back home to Earth. The drop test was done to make sure that the parachutes would deploy
Posted by Bad Astronomy
... am having a difficult time figuring out how to write this post without seeming bitter. It´s hard to watch something that this country has done together and done well, to be thrown away like yesterday´s garbage. Something people have died doing, not because they had to do it but because they were driven to
Posted by Tom's Astronomy Blog
... left on the manifest, NASA has decided to enlist the help of the public to help choose the songs that will wake up the astronauts for STS-133
Posted by Universe Today
Every ten years or so, the US astronomy community, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, produces a road map for the next decade's research in astronomy. The 2010 version, chaired by Roger Blandford, was just released, and astronomer/bloggers have already weighed in: Steinn Sigurðsson and Julianne Dalcanton (in two separate posts on the ground- and space-based recommendations), along with the UK's Andy Lawrence and Peter Coles have already dissected the report, but I'll re
Posted by Andrew Jaffe: Leaves on the Line
... feel obliged to pass on the news that the results of the Decadal Review of US Astronomy were announced yesterday. There has already been a considerable amount of reaction to what the Review Panel (chaired by the esteemed Roger Blandford) came up with from people much more knowledgeable about observational astronomy and indeed US
Posted by In The Dark
... Explorer Mission StatusNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is warming up. Team members say the spacecraft is running out of the frozen coolant needed to keep its heat-sensitive instrument chilled. The telescope has two coolant tanks that keep the spacecraft's normal operating temperature at 12 Kelvin (minus 438 degrees Fahrenheit). The outer,
Posted by astronomy cmarchesin
... for NGC 4911Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies, which lies 320 million light-years away in the northern constellation Coma Berenices. The gala
Posted by astronomy cmarchesin
Former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe was on board a plane believed to be carrying nine people that crashed in Southwest Alaska late Monday, August 9. Rescue crews were trying to reach the wreckage early this morning, and the National Transportation Safety Board told the Associated Press that five of the nine people aboard the plane
Posted by Universe Today
... into the water there. NASA has been heavily monitoring the oil using satellites, and on July 28 took this image with the Aqua satellite:[Click to enlarge.]The swirls are likely to be
Posted by Bad Astronomy
Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Douglas Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson battled with a balky ammonia pump on a spacewalk that lasted for eight hours and 3 minutes. Sadly their efforts were in vain. A line connected to the pump began leaking ammonia forcing mission managers on the ground to reevaluate the situation. They decided to
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