Here is a reprint of an article from the Rosetta mission team on where the lander might be: Where is Philae? When will it wake up? Where is Philae? Ever since Philae touched down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for January, 2015
NY Times offers a nicely made, elaborate graphics page illustrating the trek so far of the Curiosity rover, plus its activities along the way, since it landed in Gale Crater on August 5, 2012 : 28 Months on Mars – NYTimes.com. === Here’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s Space to Ground report on activities related to the Int. Space Station:
An announcement on winners of the Future Engineers 3-D Printing in Space Tool Challenge: Students Selected for Winning Designs of 3-D Printed Tools for Astronauts After three months of designing and modeling, a panel of judges from NASA, the American Society […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA JPL highligs citizen science: Citizen Scientists Lead Astronomers to Mystery Objects in Space Sometimes it takes a village to find new and unusual objects in space. Volunteers scanning tens of thousands of starry images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Zooming in on the universe has not been easy or quick. Humans watched the night sky for tens of thousands of years so that by the time early civilizations arose in areas like Mesopotamia, China, and Pre-Colombian America, amazingly detailed knowledge had been gained […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ESO (European Southern Observatory) posts the latest finding: The Mouth of the Beast Like the gaping mouth of a gigantic celestial creature, the cometary globule CG4 glows menacingly in this image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Although it looks huge and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A high school group has built a robotic system for releasing balloons to test upper atmosphere winds before launches at Cape Canaveral. This is useful in lightning conditions when people are restricted from releasing them out in the open: Students’ pink robot […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Dawn spacecraft moves closer to the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt (compare to a week ago). NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Captures Best-Ever View of Dwarf Planet January 27, 2015—NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has returned the sharpest images ever seen […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Photos To Space blog hosts the latest Carnival Of Space.
A message from the Challenger Center for Space Science Education: Challenger Center Marks 29 Years Since Shuttle Tragedy Crew’s Legacy Lives On in Thriving STEM Education Organization WASHINGTON (January 26, 2015) – Challenger Center for Space Science Education (Challenger Center) […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a SETI Institute seminar by Jens Biele of the German space agency (DLR) in which he talks about the ESA Rosetta/Philae landing on Comet 67P/C-G: The Rosetta Lander (PHILAE) mission: landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – SETI Institute Here is the caption to the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The asteroid I mentioned yesterday that was to fly past earth turned out to have an unusual feature: Asteroid That Flew Past Earth Today Has Moon Scientists working with NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The guests and topics on The Space Show this week: 1. Monday, Jan. 26, 2015: 2:00-3:30PM PST (5:00-& 6:30 PM EST, 4:00-5:30 PM CST): We welcome JPL’s DR. MARC RAYMAN, the chief engineer and mission director for Dawn, the first […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I posted previously about SpaceTraveller, a “solar system simulator and space mission visualizer program” under development by BINARY SPACE, which provides the Satellite Tracking Tool here and with whom I work to make the Virtual SpaceTV 3D animated news reports. That post included a video demonstrating a simulation […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest TMRO program included Bill Dunford of RidingWithRobots.org “to talk about robotic exploration of the cosmos” : Riding with Robots – TMRO
An asteroid half a kilometer in diameter will pass near earth on Monday: Giant asteroid is about to give Earth a close call – Sen.com Here is the original NASA JPL story: Asteroid to Fly By Earth Safely on January 26 (See […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back in December I posted about the DreamUP! program created by NanoRacks and FISE ( Foundation for International Space Education), which aims to send STEM projects to the International Space Station. Chicks in Space is the first team attempting to raise the $15k needed to get an experiment […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I posted here about the Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, which took place last weekend. Here is a report on the winning films: The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival returned to New York City for its third […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Opportunity rover reaches a high point and a distance record on the anniversary of its landing on Mars 11 years ago. Here is a press release about the milestone: Hilltop Panorama Marks Mars Rover’s 11th Anniversary High Viewpoint for 11-Year-Old […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…