On Sept. 17, 2015, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured images and video from the International Space Station during an early morning flyover of the United States. Sharing with his social media followers, Kelly wrote, “Clear skies over much of the USA today. #GoodMorning from @Space_Station! #YearInSpace.” To source
Sensitive new telescopes have searched for signs of advanced alien civilizations but haven’t found any.Credit: ASTRON Nearby galaxies in our universe show no signs of advanced alien civilizations — at least for now. A new study that examined the most promising galaxies we can see out of a collection of 100,000 found no signs of […]
NASA is closer to putting boots on Mars than it’s ever been before, the space agency’s chief says. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former space shuttle commander, said he envisioned becoming the first person to explore Mars when he checked in for astronaut training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center in 1980. Back then, a crewed […]
An innovative plan to use “optical mining” is part of the Asteroid Provided In-Situ Supplies (Apis) concept — an ability to tap mega-amounts of water from space rocks to help establish valuable infrastructure in space.Credit: TransAstra PASADENA, Calif. — A new way to harvest asteroid resources is being eyed as a possible game changer for […]
On Sept. 6, 2015, astronaut Scott Kelly displayed his “boarding pass” for NASA’s Mars InSight MissionCredit: Scott Kelly (via Twitter as @StationCDRKelly) WASHINGTON – Halfway through his almost yearlong mission, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly spoke via satellite to an audience gathered at the National Press Club here about the things he is looking forward to, […]
Congratulations to the top 10 and the three prize winners in ESA’s #Estrack40 audio contest To source
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2 image of Mississippi’s swamps, USA, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source
Topics List Sep. 18, 2015 UpdatedUpgraded H-IIA (H-IIA F29) launch on Nov. 24 The launch of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No..29 (H-IIA F29) was set to be between 3:23 p.m. thru 5:07 p.m. on Nov. 24 (Tue.), 2015 (Japan Standard Time).Our achievement of developing an upgraded flagship launch vehicle for acquiring global-level launch capacity of […]
Topics List Sep. 16, 2015 UpdatedLive Internet broadcast of KOUNOTORI5’s departure from ISS on Sept. 28 (Mon.) The KOUNOTORI5 will leave the International Space Station (ISS) at 0:20 a.m. on September 29 (Tue.), and re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere at around 5:31 a.m. on the 30th (Wed.) to burn up. JAXA will broadcast the live report […]
Backlit by sunset over Pluto, NASA’s New Horizon’s probe captured rugged ~11,000ft (3,350m) mountains and wide glaciers of nitrogen ice. To quote Principal Investigator Alan Stern: “Pluto is surprisingly Earth-like…and no one predicted it.” (Full Story) Credit: Space.com/NASA/JHPL/SWRI/Edited by @SteveSpaleta To source
In a new video, an enormous cluster of sunspots rotates across the sun’s face before gradually separating into several distinct groups, which also fired off a bunch of solar flares. The massive grouping took less than a week, from Aug. 21 to Aug. 26, 2015, to travel across the face of the sun. It formed […]
A Russian Proton rocket launches the Express AM8 satellite from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Credit: Roscosmos PARIS — The successful Proton launch Sept. 14 of the Express AM8 telecommunications satellite completes the most urgent fleet-replenishment requirements and puts Russia’s satellite bandwidth supply into a favorable balance with expected demand, Russia’s two satellite fleet operators said Sept. […]
A spectacular new image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shows Pluto in an entirely new light. The photo, which New Horizons took during its epic July 14 flyby of Pluto, captures a gorgeous sunset view . Towering ice mountains cast long shadows, and more than a dozen layers of the dwarf planet’s wispy atmosphere are […]