NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System will get an upgrade as the first of a new generation of communications satellites was launched to orbit on Wednesday, January 30 at 8:48 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral. See the launch video below. The TDRS system provides a critical communications link to Earth for the International Space [...]
According to Iran state media, Iran launched a suborbital rocket last week with a passenger aboard: a monkey. A gray tufted monkey survived the flight, riding inside an “indigenous bio-capsule” which was recovered after the flight. While the US and other nations are worried that Iran’s real goal is to have a nuclear missile program, [...]
Beginning on Tuesday, January 29, 2013, the Eighth Annual Ilan Ramon International Space Conference will be held in Israel, but you can watch it live here on Universe Today. The conference runs from Jan. 29-31, starting at 06:30 GMT (1:30 am EST, 10:30 pm PST on starting on January 28.) The conference honors the memory [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday , January 24, 2013 Sun Spews Bubble Towards Earth Yesterday , the sun spewed an enormous bubble of magnetically charged plasma towards Earth . Based on observations from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory STEREO and ESA NASA's Solar Heliospheric Observatory , NASA reports that two coronal mass ejections erupted at 9:55am EST on January 23, 2013 and one shot towards earth at a speed of over one million miles per . hour The two coronal mass ejections erupting from the sun on Jan . 23, 2013. Movie credit : ESA NASA misssion on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory SOHO The sun's outer atmosphere , the corona is wrapped by strong magnetic fields that trap the sun's plasma to its surface . At times , the magnetic field lines will snap and
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Every January, I journey out to the American Astronomical Society for its annual Winter Meeting. And, every time, I’m amazed at new bit of information about the universe. Today’s revelation (and it’s only Day 1 of the meeting), is that the Milky Way Galaxy is populated with many planets — in fact, one team of [...]
A constant attention to the struggles of the start up companies in the space business will constantly remind you that the critical element of progress is the availability of enough solid fuel to keep things moving. This critical solid fuel requirement is the pacing element of almost all the progress of the last decade, with [...]
I love it when kids get excited enough about science to go out and do something about it. That’s why I’m digging Jeffrey Tang – who’s 10 – because he created the Astronomy For Kids podcast, where he talks about different astronomical things. The first podcast went up in February 2012 ("The Solar System") and [...]