... few weeks ago, International Space Station astronaut Soichi Noguchi took an amazing picture of Endeavour re-entering Earth's atmosphere. He has been busily snapping away at the Earth and posting the pictures on his Twitter feed. You really should be following him!Recently, he unknowingly did me a big favor by posting this incredible shot of
Posted by Bad Astronomy
Hot on the heels of the post the other day about the winds on Mars blowing the sand dunes and visibly moving them across the planet's surface comes this new satellite image of a huge sandstorm raging across the planet:Of course, I'd forgive you if you interpret my saying "the planet" as meaning Mars. However,
Posted by Bad Astronomy
NASA Shuttle program manager John Shannon said on Tuesday (Mar 9) that the Space Shuttle Program can indeed be safely extended beyond the existing plan to retire the fleet after completing the four missions currently remaining to fly by the end of 2010. The key issue now is money not safety. Where the
Posted by Universe Today
... proposta di bilancio NASA per il 2011. Alcuni senatori e membri del Congresso hanno per espresso il loro supporto per estendere i voli della navetta spaz
Posted by News Spazio
... year, I attended the NASA-sponsored Launch Pad Workshop, a week-long camp in Laramie, Wyoming, to help science fiction authors learn astronomy. That way, they can get ideas and write more accurate stories! It was a lot of fun, and I had a fantastic time. Registration is open again for Launch Pad 2010, with guest speaker
Posted by Bad Astronomy
... "ambitious plan for NASA that sets the agency on a reinvigorated path of space exploration," according to a press release from the White House. The President will host a conference on April 15, inviting space officials and leaders to discuss the new budget and plan
Posted by Universe Today
... intende tracciare per la NASA dopo la presentazione della proposta di Budget 2011 dello scorso febbraio. Il Presiendente americano Barak Obama terrà il 15 aprile prossimo una conferenza in Florida per discutere l'approccio della sua amministrazione verso l'esplorazione spaziale americana. La Casa Bianca ha dichiarato che il Pre
Posted by News Spazio
On March 6, 2009, the Delta II launch vehicle carrying Kepler lifted off from Launch Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Please visit OrbitalHub to read more...
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... the newly proposed NASA budget after members of Congress indicated they wanted to reject a White House proposal to cancel the Constellation program and hire private companies to bring astronauts to the ISS.
Posted by Universe Today
SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral, Florida -A Delta 4 rocket carrying the GOES P weather satellite has lifted off from the Cape. The rocket at 6:57 p. m. (2357 GMT) after upper level winds and a last-minute technical problem delayed the launch by 40 minutes. After reaching orbit, GOES-P will become GOES-15. The satellite will be used to monitor
Posted by SpaceNut
... Space Telescope is NASA's successor to Hubble. Mind you, it's not a replacement: JWST will see in the infrared, peering deeper into the Universe with its ginormous 6 meter unfoldable mirror than Hubble can. But that infrared part is important. Objects that are warm give off IR light, and if you don't cool
Posted by Bad Astronomy
... spettacolari provengono dal NASA Goddard Space Flight Center e sono le più dettagliate mai prodotte in precedenza, all'interno del programma chiamato "Blue Marble Next Generation". Le prime fotografie dell'intero globo terrestre e che gli valsero il soprannome di "Blue Marble" furono scattare negli anni '60 dagli astronauti del progetto Apollo. Adesso per i dettagli e la risoluzione sono tali da rendere le nuove immagini davero meravigliose. Esse sono
Posted by News Spazio
(Immagine, fonte NASA)NEWS SPAZIO :- Nel dibattito politico americano non è mai cessata la discussione se permettere al programma Space Shuttle di concludersi quest'anno come pianificato (con gli ultimi 4 voli rimasti) oppure se continuare a volare. Nella proposta di Budget 2011 presentata dall'amministrazione del Presidente Barak Obama lo scorso febbraio viene confermato il pensionamento della navetta americana a fine 2010. Chiudere il programma Shuttle significa non avere più un ac...
Posted by News Spazio
The plucky Mars rover Spirit´ may yet rove again !She´ll just have to outwit and outlast the unavoidably harsh cold and desperately low power levels of the looming winter in Mars southern hemisphere. Rather long odds to be sure – but she´s done it before. Remember – at this moment
Posted by Universe Today
Three iPhone apps recently came out that pertain to some favorite topics on this blog, so here's a quick roundup of them. 1) John Cook, like me, got tired of hearing the same old long-debunked claims from global warming deniers being used over and over again, so he created an app debunking these claims. Called Skeptical
Posted by Bad Astronomy
... budget/direction for NASA. But, now, Buzz wants to add a little "oomph" to the underlying goal of getting to Mars by providing one thing that many think is missing from President Obama's proposed budget: heavy
Posted by Universe Today
... lunare dallo strumento NASA Mini-SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) ospitato a bordo della sonda lunare indiana Chandrayaan-1 durante la sua missione dell'anno scorso. Sebbene la quantità totale di ghiaccio d'acqua dipenda dalla profondità di ciascun cratere è stato stimato che
Posted by News Spazio
... long silent vehicle. NASA´s attempts to reestablish contact with Phoenix were restarted in January 2010 and timed to coincide with the onset of springtime and disappearance of ice at her location in the
Posted by Universe Today
Live blogging will begin here at 5:30pm5:10pm A presentation will be by Dr Laurie Leshin, Deputy Associate administrator, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. Title : “New Oppurtunities in the President's FY2011 Budget”5:12pm Speaker is not dressed in back. While there are people downstairs pre-lecture drinking in the bar, I don't think it will be
Posted by Star Stryder
... haven't been able to post over the weekend as I've been pretty busy. On Friday, I was at a Forensics tournament and on Saturday, I was at Science Olympiad Regionals. During the time I went “quiet” on the internet a lot has gone on! So I'm not going to try and talk about everything,
Posted by SpaceNut
... delays). After that, NASA will rely heavily on private companies to ferry cargo to orbit, and eventually humans as well. My
Posted by Bad Astronomy
For my farewell from the Cape (for now) and STS 130 coverage, please check out this cool video of the STS 130 Night Landing which took place exactly 1 week ago on Sunday night, Feb 21. It´s been a pleasure and an honor to work as a team for Universe Today; Nancy Atkinson and Ken
Posted by Universe Today
About 2,000 people turned out for a "Save Our Space Exploration" jobs rally in Titusville, Florida on Saturday. Organized by union leaders, the event focused on preserving jobs at Kennedy Space Center, vital to the economy on the Space Coast. "Canceling the Constellation program is a movement away from what we Floridians
Posted by Universe Today
(Immagine, fonte US Air Force)NEWS SPAZIO :- X-37B è il nome di un progetto militare americano per un veicolo spaziale "unmanned" e riusabile la cui forma ricorda parecchio un piccolo Space Shuttle. Luned scorso il primo veicolo di test orbitale (OTV, Orbital Test Vehicle) ha raggiunto Cape Canaveral in Florida in previsione del primo lancio programmato per il prossimo 19 Aprile 2010 alle ore 10 PM EDT (equivalenti alle quattro di mattina del giorno dopo qui in Italia). X-37B è lungo...
Posted by News Spazio
... 26 Febbraio 2010 la NASA e l'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) hanno annunciato ufficialmente che uno dei tre moduli logistici MPLM (Multi Purpose Logistic Module) realizzati dall'Italia per l'Agenzia Spaziale Americana diventerà parte integrante e permanente della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale, cambiando denominazione in PMM (Pressurized Multipurpose Module). Avevo già scritto vari post su quella che fino ad ora era solo una propostahttp://newsspazio. blogspot. com/2009/09/m
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All the robotic missions to various points in our solar system wouldn't be possible if not for the Deep Space Network. It's not just sending commands and receiving data, but also orbit determination, or keeping track of where the spacecraft are with radiometric tracking data so that spacecraft navigators can get probes exactly where the
Posted by Universe Today
... Terra the satellite. NASA's Earth-observing bird first opened its eyes on February 24, 2000, and for the past decade has been dutifully watching our planet. It has looked upon us at different wavelengths, different resolutions, at different times of day, and different times of year. It has tracked changes, and
Posted by Bad Astronomy
The Earth is warming up. That's a fact. Denialists will deny (and no doubt will amp up the noise in the comments below) but the truth is the Earth has warmed on average over a degree Fahrenheit in the past century or so, and the past decade, 2000 – 2009, was the warmest on record.
Posted by Bad Astronomy
... per ogni Direttorato NASA comprese le richieste di budger presentate recentemente dal Preside
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... probably the best move NASA has made since launching a web page to prove why the agency was still relevant. While that last manuver obviously failed (as Obama is outsourcing the Moon to the private sector), their latest iPhone app may help show the public how fun (not to mention difficult) it is
Posted by Colony Worlds
... $200 million to the NASA budget for 2010 and between $1. 5 – $2 billion a year
Posted by Universe Today
The Space Shuttle mission STS-130 ended last night with the Orbiter Endeavour safely landing in Florida at 10:20 p. m. Eastern time yesterday. I live-tweeted the event, and so I was too busy to pay much attention to the Twitter feed from Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut onboard the the International Space Station. I wish I had,
Posted by Bad Astronomy
President Obama's plan for NASA in the future is to rely heavily on private industry. One of the companies preparing for this is Space X, which has tested its first generation Falcon 1 rocket successfully. The Falcon 9 is a much larger rocket capable of carrying a much heavier payload, but has not yet flown.
Posted by Bad Astronomy
Space shuttle Endeavour is home after two weeks in space, having delivered the final U. S. module and a “room with a view” to the International Space Station. STS-130 Commander George Zamka guided Endeavour to a landing at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility at 10:20 p. m. EST, to wrap up a 5. 7 million mile
Posted by SpaceNut
(Editor's Note: Ken Kremer is at the Kennedy Space Center for Universe Today covering the flight of Endeavour)The crew of Endeavour is packing up their gear in the crew cabin and preparing for a Sunday evening (Feb. 21) landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida as a forecast
Posted by Universe Today
... know I just posted a volcano image from the Terra Earth-observing satellite, but another just came in and it's so beautiful I can't help myself. So here's a little bit of awesome for your Friday afternoon. Behold!See? Told you. What we have here are two volcanoes on February 13 erupting simultaneously in Kamchatka. The
Posted by Bad Astronomy
... proposta del Budget NASA per il 2011 il Presidente americano BaraK Obama ha infatti stanziato 75 milioni di dollari da utilizzare in cinque anni proprio per il Commercial Reusable S
Posted by News Spazio
... questions and concern about NASA's new direction. One woman, a senior engineer with Orion, was in tears asking, "Did you fight for us?" With the end of the shuttle program, many were concerned about jobs and expertise that would be lost. Bolden tried to reassure everyone that human spa
Posted by GM=tc^3
Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Gallagher (The University of Western Ontario), and J. English (University of Manitoba)Imagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard: a group of small, ancient galaxies that has waited 10 billion years to come together. These "late bloomers" are on their way to building a large elliptical galaxy. Such encounters between dwarf galaxies are normally seen billions of light-
Posted by astronomy cmarchesin
NEWS SPAZIO :- Lo scorso 11 Febbraio 2010 la società SpaceX ha annunciato che tutto il "flight hardware" per il lancio inaugurale del razzo Falcon 9 è arrivato al sito di lancio, lo SLC-40 (Space Launch Complex 40) al Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Dopo il completamento dell'integrazione di tutto il veicolo (47 metri di lunghezza per 3,6 metri di diametro) vi sarà la preparazione al primo lancio di test, che potrà avvenire anche il prossimo mese. Una prim...
Posted by News Spazio
... each agency, including NASA, has been given an “IdeaScale” site
Posted by The Martian Chronicles
Perched on top of an Atlas V rocket, on February 11 the Solar Dynamics Observatory launched into space. About a minute after leaving the Earth, the rocket did two things: it passed the speed of sound, and screamed past a sundog, a rainbow-colored optical effect in the sky caused by ice crystals. And when it did,
Posted by Bad Astronomy
Ah, how I have fallen in love with the Planetary Society and their Blog! They have not only a very nicely designed website but fantastic blog entries daily, that give me a fill of my Astrogoodness. Anyways, according to Emily Lakdawalla on Thursday (February 18) at 11:00 Pacific (19:00UTC) there will be a live
Posted by SpaceNut
... is. You might think NASA gets a huge amount of money — a lot of people do — but in fact
Posted by Bad Astronomy
... latest images from NASA´s Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moons, Mimas and Calypso. Mimas is best known for its enormous crater on one side, which astronomers have calculated was just a little smaller than would have been necessary to completely destroy the moon. The images are available
Posted by SpaceNut
Depends on Growing NASA AnewThis image of the space shuttle is one of the most evocative and beautiful I've ever seen taken on orbit. It says volumes about our ability to regularly visit space and establish a threshold beyond the confines of our home planet. What does this image say to you? If you are one
Posted by TheSpacewriter's Ramblings
The Cupola, which is akin to a bay window´ in a house back on earth, was relocated overnight to the Tranquility modules Earth-facing (nadir) port and put in place at 1:25 AM EST this morning. The so called Room with a View´ was then securely latched and bolted into place. Cupola is
Posted by Universe Today
(Immagine, fonte NASA/JPL-Caltech)NEWS SPAZIO :- Continuamo a parlare del Mars Exploration Rover Spirit (ormai Stationary Scientific Platform), insabbiato da più di 10 mesi nella regione Home Plate di Marte. Dopo aver deciso di concludere i tentativi per liberarlo dalle sabbie di Marte e trasformarlo cos in una piattaforma scientifica stazionaria i tecnici di missione hanno concluso anche le manovre per "parcheggiarlo" per tutto l'inverno che ormai è prossimo. Nessun altro comando d...
Posted by News Spazio
Sorry for the lack of updates in the past week. Things are a bit busy right now as I try to crunch numbers in time to finish a poster for a conference and finish a fellowship renewal (luckily they rely on the same results). Meanwhile, enjoy this excellent photo of the space shuttle taken from
Posted by The Martian Chronicles
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