On May 23, 2016 local time, India launched the first test flight of its Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator, a winged, unmanned spacecraft that resembles a miniature space shuttle. Credit: Indian Space Research Organisation India is now a member of the space plane club. The nation flight-tested its robotic space plane prototype , known as […]
Topics List May 23, 2016 UpdatedA movie of the Venus’ night-side produced by IR2 This movie is produced from the IR2 2.26-μm images, acquired on 29 March 2016 at a distance of 0.36 million km. Original 4 images were acquired with 4-hour intervals from 16:03 JST (07:03 UT). In 4 hours, the super-rotating clouds move […]
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NASA’s last remaining flight-qualified space shuttle external tank arrived at Exposition Park in Los Angeles, home to the California Science Center, at about 6:15 p.m. PDT on Saturday, May 21, 2016. Credit: collectSPACE.com/Robert Pearlman LOS ANGELES — The space shuttle Endeavour now has its external tank. The massive orange-brown fuel tank, NASA’s last remaining example of […]
Mars is at opposition with the Earth this Sunday (May 22), meaning the Red Planet and the Blue Marble are at their closest proximity to each other as they orbit the sun. In celebration of this event, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped a new picture of Mars . The image shows a hazy blue rim […]
Astrophotographer Andrew Kwon captured this photo of Saturn at opposition in May 2014 from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Credit: Andrew Kwon While the celestial object of the moment is no doubt Mars, thanks to its closest approach to Earth in more than 10 years , on May 30, another planet will be attracting its own share […]
A Blue Moon will rise Saturday night (May 21), and you can watch it with expert commentary online during a live Slooh webcast from the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands. The free program is a collaboration between the online Slooh Community Observatory and “The Old Farmer’s Almanac,” and will run from 8 to 8:30 […]
Night sky watcher Tomsajinsa sent in this photo of the blue moon taken in NYC, August 31, 2012. Credit: Tomsajinsa A Blue Moon is a fairly infrequent phenomenon involving the appearance of an additional full moon within a given time period. But which time period — there are two definitions of the term, and one […]
CubeSats fly free after leaving the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer on the International Space Station on May 17, 2016. Seen here are two Dove satellites. The satellites are part of a constellation designed, built and operated by Planet Labs Inc. to take images of Earth from space. To source
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<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”35.5″> Astrotwins: Mark and Scott Kelly Credit: collectSPACE.com Mark and Scott Kelly are the world’s first (and so far only) identical-twin astronaut brothers. Hailing from West Orange, New Jersey, Mark and Scott served as space shuttle pilots and commanders for NASA, with Scott ultimately commanding the International Space Station during two long missions, […]