• Vote Now! Top Space Stories of the Week - Sept. 30, 2012

    Updated: 2012-09-30 16:06:16
    SPACE.com: What was your favorite space news story of the last week?

  • SpaceX Conducts Falcon 9 Static Fire as Cargo Flight Looms

    Updated: 2012-09-30 16:00:12
    Parabolic Arc: Video Caption: On September 29, 2012, SpaceX completed a successful static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket’s nine Merlin engines. During this test, SpaceX engineers ran through all countdown processes as if it were launch day. All nine engines fired at full power for two seconds while the rocket was held down to the pad. This is the last major all systems test in preparation for Falcon 9 and Dragon’s next mission to the space station, targeted for October 7.

  • Navigating the Seas of Titan

    Updated: 2012-09-30 10:16:42
    Method Learning to live on Mars Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Navigating the Seas of Titan post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 September 2012 06:16:42 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Madrid , Spain SPX Oct 01, 2012 Humanity has landed a rover on Mars . Now , say scientists , it's time to land a boat on Titan . This outlandish scenario could become reality , according to engineers presenting their proposals at the European Planetary Science Congress on 27 September . Titan , Saturn's largest moon , is one of the most Earth-like bodies in the solar system . With

  • Ariane 5 maintains Arianespace's track record of success with the launch of ASTRA 2F and GSAT-10

    Updated: 2012-09-30 10:16:42
    Method Learning to live on Mars Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Ariane 5 maintains Arianespace's track record of success with the launch of ASTRA 2F and GSAT-10 post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 September 2012 06:16:42 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Kourou , French Guiana ESA Oct 01, 2012 The fifth Ariane 5 mission of 2012 delivered a pair of telecommunications spacecraft to geostationary transfer orbit Friday , marking the 65th launch to date for Arianespace's heavy-lift workhorse . Lifting off in late afternoon sunlight at 6:18 p.m . from the Spaceport in

  • Titan Shows Surprising Seasonal Changes

    Updated: 2012-09-30 10:16:42
    Method Latest Kickstarter Project To Break 1 Million Is A Low Cost , Professional 3D Printer FormLabs Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Titan Shows Surprising Seasonal Changes post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 September 2012 06:16:42 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Madrid , Spain SPX Oct 01, 2012 Detailed observations of Saturn's moon Titan have now spanned 30 years , covering an entire solar orbit for this distant world . Dr . Athena Coustenis from the Paris-Meudon Observatory in France has analyzed data gathered over this time and has found that the changing

  • Australian hypersonic test a success

    Updated: 2012-09-30 10:16:42
    Method Mars Rover Opportunity Working at Matijevic Hill' Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Australian hypersonic test a success post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 September 2012 06:16:42 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Canberra , Australia UPI Sep 28, 2012 Australian military scientists successfully completed another test flight of an experimental hypersonic vehicle , this time at the Andoya Rocket Range in Norway . A test vehicle reached an apogee of nearly 218 miles and then achieved speeds of up to Mach 8 about 6,100 mph on descent . The two-stage vehicle

  • A New Dawn For NASA's Asteroid Explorer

    Updated: 2012-09-30 10:16:42
    Method Rock Grinding Action Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . A New Dawn For NASA's Asteroid Explorer post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 September 2012 06:16:42 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Oct 01, 2012 On the fifth anniversary of the beginning of its ambitious interplanetary adventure , Dawn can look back with great satisfaction on its spectacular exploration of the giant protoplanet Vesta and forward with great eagerness to reaching dwarf planet Ceres . Today Earth's robotic ambassador to the main asteroid belt is in quiet cruise , gradually

  • Near Possible Target for Use of Arm Instruments

    Updated: 2012-09-30 10:16:42
    Method Ariane 5 maintains Arianespace's track record of success with the launch of ASTRA 2F and GSAT-10 Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Near Possible Target for Use of Arm Instruments post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 September 2012 06:16:42 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Oct 01, 2012 On Sol 52 Sept . 28 Curiosity drove about 122 feet 37.3 meters eastward toward the Glenelg area , using visual odometry to assess and adjust for any wheel slippage . The mission's total distance driven has now reached 0.28 mile 0.45 kilometer The drive brought

  • The Magnetic Wakes of Pulsar Planets

    Updated: 2012-09-30 10:16:42
    Method Learning to live on Mars Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . The Magnetic Wakes of Pulsar Planets post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 September 2012 06:16:42 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Madrid , Spain SPX Oct 01, 2012 Pulsars are among the most extreme stars in the universe : dense balls of matter which are heavier than the Sun , yet only a few tens of kilometers in diameter . They rotate rapidly up to several hundred revolutions per second and flash like lighthouse beacons hence the name , which is short for pulsating star . And yet despite these exotic

  • Ariane rocket launches two telecom satellites

    Updated: 2012-09-30 10:16:42
    Method Mars Rover Opportunity Working at Matijevic Hill' Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Ariane rocket launches two telecom satellites post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 September 2012 06:16:42 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Paris AFP Sept 29, 2012 An Ariane 5 rocket carrying two satellites , ASTRA 2F and GSAT-10, successfully put its payload into orbit late Friday , European operator Arianespace announced . The fifth such launch of the Ariane 5 this year , the rocket took off at 6:18 pm 2118 GMT from Kourou , in French Guiana . Arianespace broadcast the

  • Curious About Life: Interview with David Grinspoon

    Updated: 2012-09-30 10:16:42
    : Method Time lapse : All Is Violent , All Is Bright Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Curious About Life : Interview with David Grinspoon post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 September 2012 06:16:42 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Moffett Field CA SPX Sep 26, 2012 The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments , and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ever had the potential for life . The Radiation Assessment Detector RAD studies the presence of radiation

  • Mars Rover Opportunity Working at 'Matijevic Hill'

    Updated: 2012-09-30 10:16:42
    Method Mars Rover Opportunity Working at Matijevic Hill' Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Mars Rover Opportunity Working at Matijevic Hill' post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 September 2012 06:16:42 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Oct 01, 2012 NASA's Mars rover Opportunity , well into its ninth year on Mars , will work for the next several weeks or months at a site with some of the mission's most intriguing geological features . The site , called Matijevic Hill , overlooks 14-mile-wide 22-kilometer-wide Endeavour Crater . Opportunity has begun

  • Learning to live on Mars

    Updated: 2012-09-30 10:16:42
    Method A New Dawn For NASA's Asteroid Explorer Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Learning to live on Mars post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 September 2012 06:16:42 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Boston , MA SPX Oct 01, 2012 Since the beginning of August , NASA's Mars rover , Curiosity , has been roaming all over the distant planet learning as much as it can about the Martian terrain . The mission control team back on Earth has also learned what it may be like on Mars by trying to live and work on a Martian day , which is about 40 minutes longer than an Earth

  • Rock Grinding Action

    Updated: 2012-09-30 10:16:42
    Method Curious About Life : Interview with David Grinspoon Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Rock Grinding Action post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 September 2012 06:16:42 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Oct 01, 2012 Opportunity is conducting an in-situ contact science campaign at a putative location of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater . The rover is positioned next to a large light-toned block of exposed outcrop . Earlier Panoramic Pancam imagery indicates mineral hydration in this block . Opportunity

  • Troughs Suggest Stunted Planetary Development Of Vesta

    Updated: 2012-09-30 10:16:42
    Method is being a sexually active male killing you Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Troughs Suggest Stunted Planetary Development Of Vesta post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 September 2012 06:16:42 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Oct 01, 2012 Enormous troughs that wrap around the giant asteroid Vesta may actually be dropped blocks of terrain bounded by fault lines , suggesting a geologic complexity beyond that of most asteroids . Since the discovery of the troughs last year in data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft , scientists have been working to

  • Hot Fire Static Test Proves A-OK for Next SpaceX ISS Trip

    Updated: 2012-09-30 06:01:19
    moonandback: On Saturday, September 29, 2012, SpaceX completed a successful static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket’s nine Merlin engines. During this test, SpaceX engineers ran through all countdown processes as if it were launch day. All nine engines fired at full power for two seconds while the rocket was held down to the pad. This is the last major all-systems test in preparation for Falcon 9 and Dragon’s next mission to the space station, targeted for October 7.

  • Moon Miners' Manifesto - October 2012

    Updated: 2012-09-30 05:40:58
    Skip to main . content HobbySpace Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Firms Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR ISPCS 2012 Int . Symposium on Perosonal Commercial Spaceflight Las Cruces , . N.M Oct . 17-18, 2012 SpaceVision 2012 SEDS Buffalo , NY Nov . 8-11, 2012 Humans to Mars Summit Washington . D.C May 6-8, 2013 NSRC-2013 Broomfield , . CO June 5-7, 2013 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donation More payment options available here Moon Miners' Manifesto October 2012 The October2012 issue of the

  • The Case of the Lost Transmission: Newsletter Challenge (October 2012)

    Updated: 2012-09-30 05:00:00
    : Method Troughs Suggest Stunted Planetary Development Of Vesta Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . The Case of the Lost Transmission : Newsletter Challenge October 2012 post from CR4 Recent Blog Entries on 30 September 2012 01:00:00 AM . CR4 Recent Blog Entries This month s Challenge Question : Specs amp Techs from GlobalSpec:Cars powered by internal combustion engines need transmissions . However , electric cars and steam locomotives do not need transmissions . Why The answer to this challenge will be posted later this month , right here on CR4. Read The Full Article : http : cr4.globalspec.com blogentry 21149

  • Hit-and-Run Science

    Updated: 2012-09-30 03:12:00
    : Sunday , September 30, 2012 Hit-and-Run Science From A new hit and run Giant Impact scenario July 28, 2012 Figure 1a Five snapshots from the 30° impact angle and 1.30vesc impact velocity case cC06 showing cuts through the impact plane . Colour coded is the type and origin of the material . Dark and light blue indicate target and impactor iron Red and orange show corresponding silicate material . The far right shows the situation at the time of impact . At 0.52h , it can be seen how the impactor ploughs deep through the targets mantle and pushes considerable amount of target material into orbit . A spiral arm of material forms and gravitationally collapses into fragments . The outer portions of the arm mainly consist of impactor silicates and escapes due to having retained a velocity well

  • Dawn’s Stellar Anniversary

    Updated: 2012-09-27 23:40:29
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft makes its journey to its second target, the dwarf planet Ceres, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. Artist’s concept of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Dear Dawnniversaries, On the fifth anniversary of the beginning of its ambitious interplanetary adventure, Dawn can look back with [...]

  • NASA Set To Kick Off 2012 OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Video Contest

    Updated: 2012-09-26 21:20:51
    NASA Set To Kick Off 2012 OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Video Contest

  • National Fossil Day approaches again

    Updated: 2012-09-25 18:59:43
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Space Policy Weighing the evidence Can you solve the traveling salesman problem Archive Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Sep 25 2012 National Fossil Day approaches again by mdr 0 comments in Earth and Space Science Earth Structure and Processes Diversity of Organisms and History and Nature of Science National Fossil Day : A great time to dig fossils both literally and

  • Video: A Toy Train in Space

    Updated: 2012-09-25 09:05:13
    Sagan Planet Walk, Now The World's Largest Exhibition, Extends from New York to Hawaii

  • Celebrate World Space Week October 4-10, 2012

    Updated: 2012-09-24 16:35:04
      Join educators and space enthusiasts around the world to celebrate World Space Week, Oct. 4-10, 2012. This international event commemorates the beginning of the Space Age with the launch of Sputnik 1 on Oct. 4, 1957. World Space Week is the largest public space event in the world, with celebrations in more than 50 [...]

  • NASA Successfully Launches Student Experiments from Wallops Flight Facility - Next launch September 22

    Updated: 2012-09-21 23:12:13
    NASA Successfully Launches Student Experiments from Wallops Flight Facility - Next launch September 22

  • Curiosity rover photographs intriguing Martian outcrop

    Updated: 2012-09-20 20:57:19
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Space Policy Weighing the evidence Can you solve the traveling salesman problem Archive Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Science links Curiosity rover photographs intriguing Martian outcrop by mdr on Sep . 20th , 2012 Intriguing Martian outcrop Courtesy NASA JPL-Caltech MSSS Ed Truthan Meanwhile , back on Mars , the Curiosity rover has sent back some very cool close-up

  • Looking for student experiments

    Updated: 2012-09-20 19:50:45
    Students in different age groups are being invited by ESA to participate in three educational programmes that will take place during 2013. Each programme is an exciting opportunity to design an experiment and conduct scientific research.

  • Orion Spacecraft Makes Virginia Air & Space Center Home

    Updated: 2012-09-20 03:15:13
    Orion Spacecraft Makes Virginia Air & Space Center Home

  • NASA, Challenger Center Host Girl Scouts At Learning Event

    Updated: 2012-09-20 03:15:11
    Two female engineers will share their career experiences with 18 Maryland Girl Scouts in grades 5 through 8 during an interactive learning event sponsored by NASA's Giving Initiative and Relevance to Learning Science (NASA GIRLS) Program Sept. 22.

  • NASA Astronaut Gregory H. Johnson to Appear at Duluth Air and Aviation Expo

    Updated: 2012-09-20 03:15:10
    NASA Astronaut Gregory H. Johnson to Appear at Duluth Air and Aviation Expo

  • Women in Aerospace Announces 2012 WIA Award Winners

    Updated: 2012-09-20 03:15:08
    Women in Aerospace Announces 2012 WIA Award Winners

  • Starry Night made from starry photos

    Updated: 2012-09-19 21:32:16
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Space Policy Weighing the evidence Can you solve the traveling salesman problem Archive Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Amazing fact Starry Night made from starry photos by mdr on Sep . 19th , 2012 Starry Night : Vincent Van Gogh's . masterpiece Courtesy Wikipedia Check out this nifty homage to Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting Starry Night put together by Alex Parker a

  • Curiosity landing - one more time

    Updated: 2012-09-14 22:16:36
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Space Policy Weighing the evidence Can you solve the traveling salesman problem Archive Features Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Science links Curiosity landing one more time by mdr on Sep . 14th , 2012 It's been , oh , maybe 3 weeks since I posted the last hi-def POV video of Curiosity's amazing descent to the surface of Mars but this time it's in Ultra High Def and at 30fps Who

  • NASA Now Accepting Applications for Aeronautics Scholarships

    Updated: 2012-09-13 22:19:23
    NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is accepting scholarship applications from graduate and undergraduate students for the 2013-2014 academic year. The application deadline is January 14, 2013.NASA expects to award 20 undergraduate and five graduate scholarships to students in an aeronautical engineering program or related field. Undergraduate students who have at least two years of study [...]

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