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    Most distant quasar found June 29, 2011 NASA sets launch date for final space shuttle mission June 29, 2011 Neutron star bites off more than it can chew June 28, 2011 SOFIA successfully observes challenging Pluto occultation June 27, 2011 Fermilab experiment weighs in on neutrino mystery June 27, 2011 Small asteroid to whip past Earth June 27 June 24, 2011 Mission suggests Sun and planets constructed differently June 24, 2011 Dawn nears start of yearlong stay at giant asteroid Vesta June 24, 2011 Cassini captures ocean-like spray at Saturn moon June 23, 2011 The flames of Betelgeuse June 23, 2011 A galactic crash investigation June 22, 2011 Astronomers discover that galaxies are either asleep or awake June 22, 2011 Cassini captures ice queen Helene June 21, 2011 Japanese T2K experiment

  • Image: New Mexico Fire As Seen From Orbit

    Updated: 2011-06-30 14:41:45
    A crew member aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of approximately 235 statute miles on June 27, 2011, exposed this still photograph of a major fire in the Jemez Mountains of the Santa Fe National Forest in north-central New Mexico. The fire is just southwest of Los Alamos National Laboratories. Larger images.

  • "The Real Earth" -- Image from Space With Gravity Field in Effect

    Updated: 2011-06-30 07:14:00
    The "Potsdam Gravity potato", as this image of terrestrial gravity has become known, can for the first time display gravity variations that change with time. The seasonal fluctuations of the water balance of continents or melting or growing ice masses,...

  • Dear NASA: Please Focus on Space Exploration, Not Menus

    Updated: 2011-06-30 04:30:28
    : , Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Dear NASA : Please Focus on Space Exploration , Not Menus By Keith Cowing on June 30, 2011 12:30 AM 1 Comment Keith's : note A personal note about aerospace companies and corporate giving . Every company who supported the nuclear space event at the Air Space Museum tonight has a clear , consistent record of giving to meritorious causes . All aerospace companies do . I know many of the people who write the checks and the professional associations that participate . I

  • Imagery: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Explores Tycho Central Peak

    Updated: 2011-06-30 03:38:17
    allowfullscreen On 10 June 2011 the LRO spacecraft slewed 65 degrees to the west, allowing the LROC NACs to capture this dramatic sunrise view of Tycho crater. More information.

  • Dawn Closing in on Asteroid Vesta as Views Exceed Hubble

    Updated: 2011-06-30 01:38:50
    A new world in our Solar System is about to be unveiled for the first time – the mysterious protoplanet Vesta, which is the second most massive object in the main Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA’s Dawn Asteroid orbiter has entered its final approach phase to Vesta and for the first time is [...]

  • Final Atlantis Up Close Photo Op - Part 1

    Updated: 2011-06-29 19:34:48
    Atlantis: The Grand Finale Photo Special at Launch Pad 39A Part 1</a, SpaceRef "The Grand Finale of NASA's three decade long Space Shuttle program is less than two weeks away. Recently NASA allowed reporters unprecedented access to photograph the Space Shuttle Atlantis while it waits on the pad. Here is part one."

  • Cassini Image: Titan and Saturn's Rings

    Updated: 2011-06-29 14:30:51
    Saturn's rings cut across this view of the planet's largest moon, Titan. Dark albedo features on Titan (5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles across) and the moon's north polar hood are visible here. This view looks toward the southern, unilluminated side of the rings from just below the ringplane and toward the Saturn-facing side of Titan. North on Titan is up. read more

  • NASA Sets July 8 for Mandatory Space Shuttle Grand Finale

    Updated: 2011-06-29 05:05:44
    NASA Shuttle managers met today (28 June) and officially set July 8 as the launch date for the Grand Finale of the shuttle program by Space Shuttle Atlantis. And the NASA officials also emphasized that the STS-135 mission is absolutely crucial to the future well being and functioning of the International Space Station (ISS). “This [...]

  • Image: Extravehicular Mobility Unit Training for Expedition 28

    Updated: 2011-06-29 03:47:17
    Attired in a training version of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuit, NASA astronaut Mike Fossum participated in spacewalk training in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Divers in the water assisted Fossum in his rehearsal, which helps prepare him and his fellow astronauts for work on the exterior of the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA. Larger images. read more

  • Astrium and NanoRacks Announce Centrifuge Agreement

    Updated: 2011-06-29 03:43:18
    Astrium and Nanoracks plan to outfit a platform for microgravity investigations with a centrifuge for gravitational research. The proposed centrifuge system, based on a standard experiment container system, was developed by Astrium for ESA more than 25 years ago and has been used for more than 120 experiments for various topics. read more

  • Launch From Wallops Delayed 24 Hours

    Updated: 2011-06-29 01:00:13
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  • IceHunters Find a space mission’s final target Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community For

    Updated: 2011-06-29 00:21:00
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  • IceHunters Find a space mission’s final target Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community For

    Updated: 2011-06-29 00:20:59
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  • Moon Day Countdown

    Updated: 2011-06-28 23:52:13
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  • STS-135 Launch Date Set

    Updated: 2011-06-28 19:26:20
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  • NASA Has Not Delivered All Of The Documents Requested by Congress

    Updated: 2011-06-28 19:22:22
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  • Magnetic Ropes Skip To Solar Storms

    Updated: 2011-06-28 18:59:01
    It is our current understanding that the Sun’s magnetic fields and field lines are the cause of solar storms. However, there is no solid evidence as to what form magnetic field lines may take ahead of an energetic outbreak. We know there can be loops connected to the surface – but normally they take the [...]

  • Why Does NASA Ignore NASA Tech Briefs?

    Updated: 2011-06-28 04:11:27
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Why Does NASA Ignore NASA Tech Briefs By Keith Cowing on June 28, 2011 12:11 AM 1 Comment Don't Miss Out on Creating the Future NASA TechBriefs Time is running out to enter the 2011 Create the Future Design Contest . Entries for the ninth annual contest are due by June 30th . Click here to submit your design idea . Sponsored by COMSOL , Creo a PTC product , and Tech Briefs Media Group , the contest recognizes outstanding innovations in product design , awarding a Grand

  • Shielding Bolden From Unfiltered Questions

    Updated: 2011-06-28 01:58:40
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Shielding Bolden From Unfiltered Questions By Keith Cowing on June 27, 2011 9:58 PM 9 Comments National Press Club Luncheon with Charles F . Bolden Jr . Administrator , NASA July 1, 2011. 12:30 PM . This event is open only to members of The National Press Club their guests . Keith's 6 June : note Well , unless media , citizen journalists , or plain old taxpayers who wish to attend cover this event happen to be paid members of the National Press Club or invited by a guest

  • NASA Delays Low-Flying Plane Flights

    Updated: 2011-06-27 20:00:27
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  • NASA Open Source Summit Proceedings Online

    Updated: 2011-06-27 18:11:13
    NASA Open Source Summit Proceedings Online "On March 29 & 30, NASA hosted its first Open Source Summit at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The event brought engineers and policy makers from across NASA together with well-respected members of the open source community together to discuss current challenges with NASA's open source policy framework, and propose modifications that would make it easier for NASA to develop, release, and use open source software."

  • Good Jobs Are Hard to Find on the Space Coast

    Updated: 2011-06-27 14:29:49
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Good Jobs Are Hard to Find on the Space Coast By Keith Cowing on June 27, 2011 10:29 AM 14 Comments As military-launch costs soar , would-be competitors protest Orlando Sentinel NASA workers looking for a job after space shuttle Atlantis' final flight likely won't have much luck at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station , which has launched a generation of military and national-intelligence satellites . The military-rocket business isn't doing too well at least according

  • Image of the Day: Yukon Wilderness from Space

    Updated: 2011-06-27 07:14:00
    This false-color satellite picture released June 17 by the European Space Agency.Alaska's Yukon River branches into a tangle of tributaries as it nears the Bering Sea. The Yukon is North America's fifth longest river system, flowing some 1,982 miles (3,190...

  • Monday's News Flash -Sci, Space, Tech

    Updated: 2011-06-27 07:06:00
    Genesis Probe Crashes Down to Earth (VIDEO) In 2004, the NASA probe's parachute malfunctioned and it crash-landed in Utah. The probe was sent about 900,000 miles from Earth to collect bits of solar wind and return them for study -...

  • From the 'X-Files' Dept: The "Found-Footage" of the Secret Apollo 18 Mission (VIDEO)

    Updated: 2011-06-27 07:04:00
    Officially, Apollo 17, launched Dec. 17, 1972, was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the Department of...

  • SLS Decision Soon?

    Updated: 2011-06-26 00:00:39
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support SLS Decision Soon By Keith Cowing on June 25, 2011 8:00 PM 101 Comments NASA Will Compete Space Launch System Boosters Aviation Week NASA has selected a shuttle-derived vehicle with two existing liquid-oxygen liquid-hydrogen stages as its reference design for the heavy-lift Space Launch System that Congress has ordered it to build for exploration missions beyond low Earth orbit , but it will hold a competition between liquid- and solid-fuel boosters to get it off the pad .

  • Senate Threatens NASA With Subpoena For Missing Documents

    Updated: 2011-06-24 15:43:29
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space OnOrbit SpaceRef Europe Astrobiology Sign In This is not a NASA Website . You might learn something . It's YOUR space agency . Get involved . Take it back . Make it work for YOU . Important Disclaimer nasawatch spaceref.com Voice 1.703.787.6567 RSS Feed Twitter Advertising Archives Support Senate Threatens NASA With Subpoena For Missing Documents By Keith Cowing on June 24, 2011 11:43 AM 17 Comments Letter from Sens . Rockefeller and Hutchison Regarding Earlier NASA Document Request Over the past few weeks , the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA has repeatedly refused to provide documents the Senate Commerce Committee needs to conduct appropriate oversight of your agency . We are writing to inform you that if you do not provide these

  • More Webb Problems

    Updated: 2011-06-24 15:38:22
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  • Get ready for Astronomy magazine’s 2011 Star Products Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Commun

    Updated: 2011-06-21 23:01:01
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  • Get ready for Astronomy magazine’s 2011 Star Products Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Commun

    Updated: 2011-06-21 23:01:00
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  • Be Afraid

    Updated: 2011-06-16 23:48:05
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  • Press Release: Planetary Society Welcomes Home Shuttle LIFE Passengers

    Updated: 2011-06-01 08:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Planetary Society Welcomes Home Shuttle LIFE Passengers

  • In The News: Living Interplanetary Spaceflight Experiment

    Updated: 2011-06-01 08:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Living Interplanetary Spaceflight Experiment

  • “Crossing the Threshold: Advancing into Space to Benefit the Earth”

    Updated: 2011-05-30 18:08:55
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  • Anchor Tenancy

    Updated: 2011-05-26 06:52:36
    Keith Cowing posted an interesting notice over on SpaceRef today. Basically NASA is using authority in one bill to remove a restriction in their acquisition regulations on doing “anchor tenant” type contracts. Anchor tenancy agreements have been talked about in the past as a way of making it easier to close the business case on [...]

  • Congrats on Taking the Plunge

    Updated: 2011-05-24 07:01:59
    I just read today that Selenian Boondocks coblogger, Kirk Sorensen, just stepped down as Chief Nuclear Technologist at Teledyne Brown Engineering to start his own company, Flibe Energy, focused on commercializing his LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) technology. Way to go Kirk! I like the angle he’s taking. While this reactor is nominally a power-generator, [...]

  • Propellant Depot Heads Up

    Updated: 2011-05-04 06:56:17
    It probably won’t happen too soon, but I give a little heads up on this Altius Space Machines blog post about some depot orbital dynamics work I’m working with a friend on. Hope I have time to talk about it soon.

  • Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two

    Updated: 2011-04-29 02:31:24
    Nothing to do with space policy or technology, but this has to be one of the most brilliant music videos I’ve ever seen: Someone actually made a rap video that I not only watched all the way through, but watched again. Alas, the ending seems all too close to reality.

  • Sorensen TEDxYYC Thorium Talk

    Updated: 2011-04-23 21:19:54
    I gave a talk at the Calgary session of TEDx on April 1, 2011 and lunar exploration formed an aspect of my talk, I hope you enjoy it.

  • “Solar Power from the Moon”

    Updated: 2011-04-20 00:31:56
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  • Heavy Blogging Coming Soon…

    Updated: 2011-04-19 05:04:11
    …to that other blog I run. In today’s blog post, I just opened the kimono a bit about our new rendezvous and docking product (the tractor beam I’ve hinted at) and committed to try and do at least one short blog post per day for the next month while we push through a major product [...]

  • Happy 50th Anniversary, Human Spaceflight

    Updated: 2011-04-12 05:13:05
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  • Space Show Classroom Presentation

    Updated: 2011-04-08 07:06:00
    I forgot to throw the link up over here, but I put my presentation for the Space Show Classroom up on my Altius Blog. Here’s a link. [Update: I had a glaring error on one of the slides pointed out. It turns out that an inclined plane in LEO will only line up with an [...]

  • Space Show Classroom Appearance Tonight

    Updated: 2011-04-05 20:50:41
    Sorry things have been so quiet on my end. With how busy work has been keeping me lately, I have had very little time for blogging, but wanted to let people know that I’ll be joining Dan Adamo (former FIDO for NASA JSC) and Drs. John Jurist and Jim Logan to discuss propellant depots. The [...]

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