• GAO on Federal Liability Risk for Commercial Launches

    Updated: 2012-07-30 20:47:59
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  • NASA Yanks Air Pressurized Paper Rocket Launcher Offline

    Updated: 2012-07-30 19:21:46
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  • A Unique Way to Use Space to Work Toward Peace on Earth

    Updated: 2012-07-30 18:18:43
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  • X-Rays Discovered From Young Supernova Remnant

    Updated: 2012-07-30 16:42:46
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets X-Rays Discovered From Young Supernova Remnant By Keith Cowing Posted July 30, 2012 12:42 PM View Comments NASA HSCFA SN 1957D Over fifty years ago , a supernova was discovered in M83, a spiral galaxy about 15 million light-years from Earth . Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to make the first detection of X-rays emitted by the debris from this . explosion Named SN 1957D because it was the fourth supernova to be discovered in the year of 1957, it is one of only a few located outside of the

  • Image: Messier 68: A Ten Billion-year Stellar Dance

    Updated: 2012-07-30 16:25:45
    : : Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Image : Messier 68 : A Ten Billion-year Stellar Dance By Keith Cowing Posted July 30, 2012 12:25 PM View Comments NASA ESA STSCI Globular Cluster Messier 68 The NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers this delightful view of the crowded stellar encampment called Messier 68, a spherical , star-filled region of space known as a globular . cluster Mutual gravitational attraction among a cluster's hundreds of thousands or even millions of stars keeps stellar members in check , allowing globular clusters to hang

  • Space Technology and Arctic Policy Priorities

    Updated: 2012-07-30 15:43:27
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Space Technology and Arctic Policy Priorities By Keith Cowing Posted July 30, 2012 11:43 AM View Comments Polar View Norway has carried out this GSP study comparing the needs of Arctic stakeholders as articulated in policies and strategies with the contribution different types of satellite technologies can make to meet current and future . requirements The Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet , and as a result , sea ice is receding opening northern sea routes . This will increase the level of

  • Congress Deals With Space Artifacts and Moon Rocks

    Updated: 2012-07-30 15:25:55
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  • Putting the Florida Shuttle Team Back to Work

    Updated: 2012-07-29 16:48:29
    Home SpaceRef Commercial Space Watch OnOrbit NASA Hack Space SpaceRef Canada Astrobiology Newsletter 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 Popular : Categories Budget Congress Commercialization Election 2012 ISS News Policy Putting the Florida Shuttle Team Back to Work By Keith Cowing on July 29, 2012 12:48 PM View Comments Florida's Space Coast seeks to reinvent itself CNN Today , most of Florida's former shuttle workers have found work , according to a recent survey conducted by Brevard Workforce , which receives state and federal funding to help these highly skilled workers find

  • Politics and NASA

    Updated: 2012-07-29 16:34:05
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  • CASIS Is Still Having Problems

    Updated: 2012-07-29 15:43:18
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  • This Week at NASA Recap for Friday, July 28, 2012

    Updated: 2012-07-28 14:36:36
    The Curiosity rover continues to make its way to Mars and its scheduled landing in Gale Crater on Monday, Aug. 6. Also Mars Yard; New record set; New heat shield test and new mission previewed; Landsat 40 and remembering Sally Ride and more.

  • Kounotori3 H-II Transfer Vehicle Berthed to ISS

    Updated: 2012-07-27 15:07:16
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Kounotori3 H-II Transfer Vehicle Berthed to ISS By Keith Cowing Posted July 27, 2012 11:07 AM View Comments Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide used the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to install the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA H-II Transfer Vehicle , or HTV-3, to its docking port on the Earth-facing side of the Harmony node at 10:34 a.m . EDT . Friday Earlier , working from the robotic workstation inside the station's cupola , NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba , with the

  • ScienceCasts: Mars Landing Sky Show

    Updated: 2012-07-27 13:26:26
    On the same night Curiosity lands on Mars, a "Martian Triangle" will appear in sunset skies of Earth. The first-magnitude apparition on August 5th gives space fans something to do while they wait for news from the Red Planet.

  • Meet the Next Space Station Crew

    Updated: 2012-07-26 19:57:45
    The three members of the Expedition 33/34 crew, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin and Oleg Novitski, talk about their upcoming mission to the International Space Station at a news briefing held July 26 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The trio is scheduled to launch to the orbiting laboratory in September.

  • GAO on DOD EELV Acqusition

    Updated: 2012-07-26 19:26:39
    EELV: DOD Is Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Its New Acquisition Strategy, GAO "The Department of Defense (DOD) has numerous efforts in progress to address the knowledge gaps and data deficiencies identified in the GAO report. Of the seven recommendations GAO made to the Secretary of Defense, two have been completely addressed. While two of GAO's recommendations have actions underway that are expected to be completed, two recommendations need more action for completion and one has had no action taken."

  • Recreating the Saturn V One Piece At A Time

    Updated: 2012-07-26 00:40:58
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  • Jumping From The Edge of Space

    Updated: 2012-07-25 23:29:02
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  • CASIS Hearing: No News Expected. No One Cares.

    Updated: 2012-07-25 19:24:08
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  • SpaceRef and Secure World Foundation Team Up

    Updated: 2012-07-25 15:48:01
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  • SpaceRef and the Secure World Foundation Enter Agreement on Multimedia Content Distribution

    Updated: 2012-07-25 15:30:00
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets SpaceRef and the Secure World Foundation Enter Agreement on Multimedia Content Distribution By Marc Boucher Posted July 25, 2012 11:30 AM View Comments SpaceRef Interactive Inc . and the Secure World Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the purpose of disseminating original multimedia content from Secure World Foundation . events The first event to be distributed through SpaceRef's network is the Secure World Foundation release of the 2012 Space Security Index Executive Summary . The two hour

  • AMS Experiment Marks 1 Year in Space

    Updated: 2012-07-25 14:26:39
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets AMS Experiment Marks 1 Year in Space By Keith Cowing Posted July 25, 2012 10:26 AM View Comments CERN today marked the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer's first year in space with a visit from the crew of the shuttle mission , STS-134, that successfully delivered AMS to the International Space Station just over a year . ago Launched on 16 May last year , the detector was already sending data back to Earth by 19 May , and since then , some 17 billion cosmic ray events have been collected . Data are received by NASA in

  • Dialog on Satellite Servicing and Debris Removal

    Updated: 2012-07-25 01:48:52
    Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Dialog on Satellite Servicing and Debris Removal By Keith Cowing Posted July 24, 2012 9:48 PM View Comments DARPA DARPA's Phoenix Concept On-orbit servicing OOS and active debris removal ADR are part of an emerging category of future on-orbit activities that are critical for taking the next leap in our use of Earth . orbit The ability to repair or refuel satellites , construct new satellites in orbit , and even remove orbital debris can help drive innovative uses of space and create new possibilities . These

  • Odyssey Moved to Support Curiosity Landing

    Updated: 2012-07-25 01:34:22
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  • lrsp-2012-4

    Updated: 2012-07-19 01:00:00
    Solar Surface Magneto-Convection by: Robert F. Stein We review the properties of solar magneto-convection in the top half of the convection zones scale heights (from 20 Mm below the visible surface to the surface, and then through the photosphere to the temperature minimum). Convection is a highly non-linear and non-local process, so it is best studied by [...]

  • Astronomy tests Vixen's compact astroimaging mount Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-07-06 19:41:27
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