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Atlantis specialists set for ISS spacewalk Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:31:20 GMT Robotic arm lube job on list of tasksSpace shuttle Atlantis mission specialists Mike Foreman and Robert Satcher will later today step outside the International Space Station for the first of three STS-129 mission spacewalks.…
US, China play footsie with joint space mission Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:02:01 GMT We will 'enhance security in outer space'The United States and China have agreed to step up discussions on cooperative space exploration, as both countries separately pursue ambitious plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by around 2020.…
Cosmic Vampire sheds light on dark energy Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:32:48 GMT European Astro-boffs eagerly wait for supernovaAstronomers have taken time-lapse images of a "Vampire Star" that is causing them to excitedly quiver about possible insights into the Universe's expansion.…
NASA maps Mars with Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:02:02 GMT Hey kid, Be a MartianNASA is outsourcing laborious Martian cartography to Earth children with a website that entices users to make a game out of sorting through the space agency's hundreds of thousands images of the Red Planet.…
Atlantis heads for ISS with spare parts Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:03:40 GMT Last shuttle blast of yearThe last shuttle leaving Earth this year has come and gone, with Atlantis and its crew of six astronauts blasting off from Kennedy Space Center at 2:28 pm EST (7:28 pm GMT) on Monday.…
Earth set for annual Leonid shower Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:06:17 GMT Meteor outlook not bright in Europe or US, thoughThis week sees the annual lightshow that is the Leonid meteors, as debris from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle comes to a fiery end in Earth's atmosphere.…
The best mad scientist memoir of the year Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:02:02 GMT Zuppero's zingy tale of space travel and bonkers weaponryBook review The best mad scientist autobiography this year, perhaps the only one, is Tony Zuppero's To Inhabit the Solar System. Better still, it's free and in time for holiday reading. It's a long but definitely not windy 391 pages.…
NASA: the Moon is a hydrated mistress Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:12:17 GMT LCROSS spies 'buckets' of water in lunar craterNASA's LCROSS probe has confirmed the presence of water on the lunar surface, including buckets of the stuff in a shadowed crater near the moon's south pole.…
ISS piss recycler packs up again on eve of Atlantis visit Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:04:29 GMT O for a beaker of the warm southThe International Space Station's buggy urine-recycling unit has packed up again, according to reports. With the shuttle Atlantis due to visit shortly, temporarily boosting the number of people at the orbiting outpost to 12, it's feared that areas of the station may begin to fill up with containers of astronaut piss awaiting treatment.…
Quickening satellite quickens pulses at ESA Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:32:15 GMT Speeding Rosetta orbiter baffles astro-boffinsBaffled Boffins at the European Space Agency (ESA) are hoping that today's Earth fly-by of the Rosetta satellite will shed light on a problem of significant gravity.…
Atlantis crew gears up for Monday launch Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:32:28 GMT Poses for cheerful snap ahead of ISS jauntThe crew of space shuttle Atlantis has arrived at Kennedy Space Center ahead of Monday's slated launch of mission STS-129 to the International Space Station.…
NASA preps Mars rover rescue plan Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:02:02 GMT Earthly for trapped SpiritNASA has come up with a plan to extricate their stuck rover Spirit that's been bogged down in a Martian sand trap since April.…
Parking spot flies to International Space Station Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:20:43 GMT Spacecraft docking day or nightA new Russian module has arrived at the International Space Station today, providing the orbiting outpost with an much-needed extra parking spot for its expanded crew of six.…
Boffins find new way to spot stars which have planets Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:29:46 GMT Lithium trick ideal for hunting alien civilisationsAstro boffins have developed a simple method for telling which stars have planets and which don't, potentially a great help in hunting for alien civilisations or uninhabited Earthlike worlds ripe for colonisation by humanity*.…
Butterflies In Spaaaace! Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:50:04 GMT Gatorade-quaffing Painted Ladies to fly to ISSNASA boffins have announced plans to fly a suitcase full of live butterflies up to the International Space Station, in a project appropriately named "Butterflies In Space".…
Astronaut love-dustup mace space ace Nowak cops plea Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:29:07 GMT Anger management classes for wiggy carpark catfightFormer astronaut Lisa Nowak - world-famous for gassing a rival over the extramarital affections of a space shuttle pilot - pled guilty yesterday to reduced charges, in a bargain with prosecutors that will see her avoid any further jail time.…
NASA: the world will not end in 2012 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:02:02 GMT Ancient Mayan secret, huh?The apocalypse is not scheduled for December 21, 2012, according to NASA.…
Catholic priests, scientists head to Rome to ponder alien life Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:48:21 GMT Little green men OK - female priests not OKThe Vatican may be a little closer to deciding how it deals with the tricky problem of extra terrestrial - and most likely non-Catholic - life forms, as it wraps up a conference on astrobiology this week.…
NASA hands over $900K for Laser propulsion system Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:32:43 GMT $1.1m still unclaimedLaserMotive has scooped a $900,000 prize from NASA for demonstration of an elevator powered from a ground-based laser.…
Animal lovers say no to radioactive NASA monkeys Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:07:18 GMT Appeal irradiated monkeyshinesAnimal rights groups are apparently not pleased with NASA's plan to zap squirrel monkeys with repeated doses of radiation for science.…
Messenger beams back colour snap of Mercury Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:19:37 GMT NASA releases new data from third fly-byNASA has released a fetching composite colour snap of Mercury, captured by the Messenger spacecraft on its third and final fly-by of the planet prior to orbital insertion in 2011:…
Can Darwin help us find little green men? Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:17:09 GMT Astrobiologist celebrates Origins bdayLife as we know it on Earth is mostly ugly, sometimes monstrous, and to a statistically small but nevertheless disquieting magnitude, it's composed of wandering packs of ravaging blood-thirsty wolves. Curiously, this beastly menagerie comes from what is essentially the same biological recipe that also spawned Academy Award-winning actress and unquestionably classy dame Joan Crawford.…
Esther '1st lady of internet' Dyson appointed NASA advisor Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:36:02 GMT 'I'm dying to get into space but can't afford it'Famed techbiz journo and investor Esther Dyson has been named as chairperson of a new "Technology and Innovation Committee" formed to help advise the senior management of NASA.…
NASA to irradiate monkeys for science Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:17:00 GMT Progress goes 'ook'It's good to see NASA getting back into the old spirit of space exploration these days. After years of settling for what are essentially low orbit field trips, the space agency is not only setting sights back on the moon, it's reintroducing the neglected trade of doing strange and unusual things to moneys for science.…
NASA chuffed with super-accurate new map of universe Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:06:11 GMT Quasars. Is there anything they can't do?NASA and an international boffinry alliance are chuffed to announce that they have successfully updated the map grid of the entire universe. Just as old-time sailors used the stars to navigate the Earth's oceans, spacecraft plying the infinite void of space - and astronomers probing it - will use quasars a billion lightyears away as reference points.…
Ares 1-X booster rocket dented in test flight Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:02:01 GMT Mystery thumpThe first stage booster rocket used in the Ares I-X test flight was found to be badly dented when it was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean.…
Brit space agency to probe 'crackpot' antigravity device Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:58:49 GMT Niobium superconductor flying cars proposedA controversial British antigravity device is to be investigated by the government's National Space Centre, according to reports. If the technology really works, it would be able to counteract the force of gravity using only electrical power, permitting the easy building of Jetsons-style flying cars or hoverships and hugely simplifying space travel.…
Russia planning nuclear-powered manned spaceship Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:52:40 GMT Reactor cruiser aimed at Moon, Mars missionsRussian space chiefs are considering plans for a manned spacecraft with a nuclear powerplant aboard, according to reports. Indications are that the nuclear kit would provide electrical power rather than being used directly for propulsion.…
Ares I-X blasts off at second attempt Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:43:15 GMT Weather finally shows some clemencyNASA's Ares I-X finally got off launchpad 39B at Kennedy Space Centre at 15:30 GMT today.…
Ares I-X stuck on the pad Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:33:39 GMT Florida weather halts trailblazing launchNASA's Ares I-X is still standing on Kennedy Space Centre's launchpad 39B, following the cancellation of the first trailblazing flight of the Constellation programme.…
El Reg receives message from planet 'Female Pigeon' Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:32:24 GMT Peristera pecks backOur suggestion yesterday that exoplanet HD 43848 b in the constellation Columba would probably benefit from a name other than "Female Pigeon" (Peristera) prompted the planet formation expert responsible for the idea to beam over a mild email protest.…
Exoplanets dubbed 'Vulcan', 'Romulus' and 'Female Pigeon' Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:31:21 GMT Wings slightly fall off cunning mythological planA planet formation expert has decided he's not happy with the International Astronomical Union's insistence that exoplanets will be known solely by their "assigned scientific designation", and has come up with names for the 403 such bodies discovered to date.…
Ares I-X 'in great shape' to fly Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:53:35 GMT Launch tomorrow, weather permittingNASA's Ares I-X rocket will, weather permitting, blaze a trail for the agency's Constellation programme tomorrow, lifting off from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B.…
Is that the US space agency in your pocket or...? Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:15:28 GMT The NASA iPhone appIf you've ever been enjoying yourself at the pub only to be seized by an uncontrollable urge to know the position of the International Space Station - right. this. minute. — sweet mobile relief has arrived courtesy the good ol' US of A space agency.…
Ares I: What's the point? Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:23:03 GMT Waste of cash, says spaceflight review chairmanThe chairman of the committee tasked by president Barack Obama with reviewing the future of the US's human spaceflight programme has questioned the value of NASA's Ares I rocket, just days before its first test flight.…
Galileo satellite fleet apparently reduced Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:50:21 GMT Order for final six birds put on indefinite holdIndications have emerged of possible delays or cuts to the European Galileo satellite navigation system. Orders for several satellites, expected to be placed this year, have been placed on indefinite hold.…
Ares I-X trundles to launchpad Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:18:02 GMT Headed for the future or the scrapheap?NASA's Ares I-X test rocket is currently trundling towards Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Centre ahead of a slated 27 October first test flight.…
Astronomers spy 32 new exoplanets Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:34:35 GMT Galaxy packed with 'super-Earths'The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has announced its discovery of 32 new exoplanets - a bountiful harvest of new worlds to conclude the initial five-year phase of its High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) planet-sniffing programme.…
NASA: Lunar pole-shot plume shows up in pictures Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:12:30 GMT Moon's dark bottom-dirt 'ejecta' soars miles highPic NASA chiefs have insisted that their recent mission to crash a pair of spacecraft into the eternally-dark crater deeps of the lunar south pole - which seemed at first look to have produced underwhelming results - was in fact a "smashing success", with definite evidence of a debris plume detected.…
ESA proposes ion drive Sun-dodge Mars commsat ploy Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:38:56 GMT Electric rockets to 'hover' above, below eclipticExperts in interplanetary navigation have hit upon a novel scheme for maintaining communications with Mars, should a need to do so eventuate - as in the case of a manned mission to the red planet, for instance.…
Robot nuclear windjammer to sail patio-gas oceans of Titan Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:24:48 GMT Crowsnest-cam to scan the 'Sea of Krakens'NASA has boffins working on plans to send a nuclear-powered robot boat to cruise the chilly patio-gas oceans of Titan, ice moon of Saturn.…
China plans space station for the 2020s, eyes Moon trip Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:58 GMT Weary Eagle, leaping Dragon?The People's Republic of China has unveiled plans to have a sizeable crewed space station orbiting the Earth by 2020. The Chinese space agency is also looking ahead to a manned Moon mission, though no timetable has been announced for this.…
Hubble snaps aftermath of galactic pile-up Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:16:36 GMT Unveils tell-tale, two-tail trailThe Hubble Space Telescope has captured an impressive image demonstrating what happens when two spiral galaxies crash into each other at high speed:…
Moon orbiter detects pole-plunge hotspots in dark bottom Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:32:07 GMT NASA: LCROSS may have caused 'significant heating'Pics NASA has released new images from its spy satellite orbiting the Moon, showing the twin impacts at the lunar south pole of the iceberg-hunting probe which struck there on Friday.…
NASA moon-bomb probe strikes rich seam of fruitcake Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:32:59 GMT 'As a woman I feel violated'Nutjob Parade Those readers who've been following NASA's LCROSS lunar pole-prang mission, which saw a brace of spacecraft crash into the Moon's south pole earlier today, will be aware that the effort wasn't popular in all quarters.…
NASA iceberg-finder prangs into Moon's south pole Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:08:49 GMT Place where sun doesn't shine probedUpdate NASA has successfully crashed a spent rocket stage and accompanying probe-craft into the Cabeus crater in the lunar antarctic. Space-agency boffins are now eagerly harvesting a flood of data from telescopes, orbiters and the probe itself in order to find out if valuable water ice has been discovered by the impact.…
Lunar ice-mine pole prang probe looking good, says NASA Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:21:32 GMT Future of off-Earth rocketfuel industry in the balanceNASA's mission to crash a spent rocket stage and a following survey craft into a dark crater at the Moon's south pole is now in its final stages. The empty Centaur upper-stage booster has now successfully separated from the LCROSS probe-craft and the two are plunging down toward the lunar antarctic.…
NASA tweaks killer asteroid's trajectory of death Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:16:20 GMT Bruce Willis can stand down, agency confirmsNASA has recalculated the trajectory of asteroid Apophis and concluded that Bruce Willis can stand down from a state of doom-body-busting readiness.…
'Stop NASA bombing the Moon!' Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:28:00 GMT Surreal Green werewolves launch anti-LCROSS petitionTreehugging, possibly lycanthropic web-2.0 campaigners have launched a petition intended to "stop NASA from bombing the Moon!".…
Star-watchers: Famous moon left half-smeared by dirty ring Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:15:57 GMT 'Irregular grindings' responsible, apparentlyA well-known moon has been smeared half-dark by dirt coming from an enormous ring, according to reports.… |
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