• NASA Satellite Adds Carbon Dioxide to Its Repertoire

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    A NASA-led research team has expanded the growing global armada of remote sensing satellites capable of studying carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate.

  • NASA Goddard Introduces the NASA Center for Climate Simulation

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    NASA GSFC recently introduced the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, an integrated set of supercomputing, visualization, and data interaction technologies that will enhance agency capabilities in weather and climate prediction research.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report 28 June 2010

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report 28 June 2010

  • NASA Issues Broad Agency Announcement For Heavy Lift Studies

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    NASA has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking proposals and industry input on heavy-lift system concepts and propulsion technology.

  • NASA Invites Journalists, Video Game Experts to Review Online Game

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    Moonbase Alpha is a game with single and multiplayer options where players step into the role of an exploration team member in a futuristic 3-D lunar settlement.

  • NASA Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive License to the California Institute of Technology

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    NASA Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive License to the California Institute of Technology

  • NASA and International Space Agencies Meet to Discuss Human and Robotic Space Exploration

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    NASA senior managers met with their counterparts representing other space agencies at the National Harbor, Md., on June 23, to discuss globally-coordinated human and robotic space exploration.

  • Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    When Mars Express set sail for the crater named after Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, it found a windblown plateau and mysterious rocky mounds nearby.

  • State Department: National Space Policy

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    State Department: National Space Policy

  • Globalstar Completes Installation of Upgrades to Its Satellite Operations and Control Centers

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    Globalstar Completes Installation of Upgrades to Its Satellite Operations and Control Centers

  • NASA Kennedy Space Center Hosts Naturalization Ceremony July 1

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    NASA Kennedy Space Center Hosts Naturalization Ceremony July 1

  • NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Meeting 16 July 2010

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Meeting 16 July 2010

  • Houston region continues national fight to urge leaders to save NASA's Human Space Flight Capabilities

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    Houston region continues national fight to urge leaders to save NASA's Human Space Flight Capabilities

  • GenCorp Names Linda Beech Cutler Vice President, Corporate Responsibility and Glenn Mahone Vice President, Communications

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:01:45
    GenCorp Names Linda Beech Cutler Vice President, Corporate Responsibility and Glenn Mahone Vice President, Communications

  • State Department Officials Afraid To Use Real Names When Talking About Space Policy

    Updated: 2010-06-30 01:59:41
    Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter 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 State Department Officials Afraid To Use Real Names When Talking About Space Policy By Keith Cowing on June 29, 2010 9:59 PM 10 Comments Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the President's National Space Policy Via Teleconference SENIOR ADMINSTRATION OFFICIAL ONE : No , no . What it does is it sets up best practices for things like transparency , confidence building measures . I don't know if my colleagues want to add anything more on . that SENIOR

  • Facebook Resource for Huntsville Folks

    Updated: 2010-06-29 20:00:29
    Keith's note: The Facebook Group Huntsville Space Professionals is tracking workforce issues, layoffs, etc. in the Huntsville area.

  • Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science FY2011 Markup Today

    Updated: 2010-06-29 16:29:26
    Subcommittee Markup: Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee - FY2011 Bill The Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science will meet today at 3:30 ET to start the markup of its FY11 appropriations bill. This will be an opportunity to see any changes in dollar amounts and conditions for NASA's budget.

  • Pressing On With Exploration Despite Budget Chaos

    Updated: 2010-06-29 03:43:49
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  • Space Policy Reaction

    Updated: 2010-06-29 01:03:14
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  • Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars

    Updated: 2010-06-29 00:00:00
    Mars Express was heading for the Magellan Crater when it found a windblown mesa and mysterious stony hills nearby.

  • White House Press Briefing on Space Policy Announced at Last Minute

    Updated: 2010-06-28 17:27:38
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  • The Cape Week in Review - KSC Research Park Ground Breaking, Shuttle Launches Pushed Back

    Updated: 2010-06-28 14:14:12
    , Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter 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 The Cape Week in Review KSC Research Park Ground Breaking , Shuttle Launches Pushed Back By Jason Rhian on June 28, 2010 10:14 AM 8 Comments This week marked the continued transition from Shuttle operations to future opportunities . This was highlighted by ground breaking on the new Exploration Park at the Kennedy Space Center . Like research parks at other NASA centers , KSC's Exploration Park is an initiative to attract businesses to KSC . This week also marked the

  • More Space Policy Goodness From the White House

    Updated: 2010-06-28 01:04:19
    Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter 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 More Space Policy Goodness From the White House By Keith Cowing on June 27, 2010 9:04 PM 13 Comments New National Space Policy Conciliatory , not Confrontational Spacepolicyonline.com Whenever it is formally released , President Obama's new national space policy will have a very different tone than his predecessor's . Rumors remain rampant that the new policy will be released on Monday , but some of those in the know say that it more likely will be later in the week .

  • Roy Estess

    Updated: 2010-06-27 22:44:11
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  • Communicating Outside of NASAWorld

    Updated: 2010-06-26 21:42:29
    Home SpaceRef OnOrbit SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology GeneRef Newsletter 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 Communicating Outside of NASAWorld By Keith Cowing on June 26, 2010 5:42 PM 5 Comments Successful science communication : A case study Ars Technica It is no secret that , in general , i.e . outside of dedicated science reporting venues and the occasional medical report on the evening news , the scientific community does a craptastic job of communicating with the general public . While I think we at Nobel Intent do it admirably , we are but an infinitesimal sliver in the

  • New clues suggest wet era on early Mars was global

    Updated: 2010-06-25 00:00:00
    Scientists report that some large craters penetrating younger, overlying rocks in the northern lowlands expose similar mineral clues to ancient wet conditions as in the southern highlands.

  • Super-complex organic molecules found in interstellar space

    Updated: 2010-06-22 00:00:00
    The discovery of anthracene could help resolve a decades-old astrophysical mystery concerning the production of organic molecules in space.

  • lrsp-2010-2

    Updated: 2010-06-15 01:00:00
    The Sun’s Supergranulation by: Michel Rieutord and François Rincon The Sun’s supergranulation refers to a physical pattern covering the surface of the quiet Sun with a typical horizontal scale of approximately 30,000 km and a lifetime of around 1.8 d. Its most noticeable observable signature is as a fluctuating velocity field of 360 m s–1 rms whose [...]

  • In The News: Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First Ever Solar Sail

    Updated: 2010-06-09 05:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First Ever Solar Sail

  • The Sun Awakens

    Updated: 2010-06-07 12:25:57
    June 7, 2010: Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the National Press Club on June 8th. Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division, explains what it's all about:"The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technologic...

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