NOAA, NASA: Significant ozone hole remains over Antarctica
NOAA
NOAA and NASA use balloon-borne instruments, ground instruments, and satellites to monitor the annual South Pole ozone hole, global levels of ozone in the stratosphere, and the manmade chemicals that contribute to ozone depletion. ...
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NASA Takes A Look Back At A Decade Of Fires
RedOrbit
NASA's latest Earth-observing satellite, the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP), is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Oct. 28 to extend key environmental data records established by an earlier generation of NASA satellites. ...
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NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System
MarketWatch (press release)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. The downpour resembles our own solar system several billion years ago during a period known as ...
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NASA approves Dragon abort system design
The Flame Trench
SpaceX today announced NASA approval of its preliminary design for a launch abort system that would allow its Dragon capsule to fly astronauts. The system will build escape engines into the Dragon's side walls rather than use a tower with motors that ...
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| Another Dead Satellite to Fall to Earth This Weekend National Geographic For NASA's UARS, the injury risk was roughly a third lower, at 1 in 3200. ROSAT is currently estimated to make an uncontrolled reentry during the early morning hours on Sunday, Greenwich Mean Time, said Heiner Klinkrad, head of the European Space ... See all stories on this topic » |  National Geographic |
Bigelow Aerospace Lays Off Half Of Its Employees Due To Space Taxi Delays
Huffington Post
Robert Bigelow, a hotel entrepreneur and founder of Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace, had hoped space taxis, also needed by NASA to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, would be available by early 2015. NASA is backing development of ...
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| Crowdsourcing Science with Zooniverse and NASA at the NEEMO-15 Underwater ... Space Ref (press release) NASA.gov: Analyzing the vast amount of data that NASA brings back from its missions is an enormous task. In order to improve collaboration internally, as well as engage citizens in NASA's mission, the Open Government team is experimenting with ... See all stories on this topic » |  Space Ref (press release) |
| NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 19 October 2011 Space Ref (press release) monthly O-OHA (On-Orbit Hearing Assessment) test, a 30-min NASAenvironmental health systems examination to assess the efficacy of acoustic countermeasures, using a special software application on the MEC (Medical Equipment Computer) laptop. ... See all stories on this topic » |  Space Ref (press release) |
| Russia eyes caves on moon for setting up a lunar base PhysOrg.com For the time being, it appears NASA has set aside any ambitions to return to the Moon with human missions. But Russia may consider sending cosmonauts to the lunar surface to set up a colony using natural caves and possible volcanic tunnels as ... See all stories on this topic » |  PhysOrg.com |
TSA, NASA IT leaders among this year's GISLA winners
GCN.com
By GCN Staff Emma Garrison-Alexander, assistant administrator for IT at the Transportation Security Administration, and Henry Yu, NASA's chief information security officer, are among the individual winners of this year's US Government Information ...
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Senator Webb Push for NASA to Consider Wallops Facility for Unmanned Aircraft ...
PoliticalNews.me (press release)
Washington, DC – Senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner joined Representatives Randy Forbes and Scott Rigell in a letter to urge Ms. Shari Silbert, of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, to consider using its facilities on the ...
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Aurora Australis From Space: NASA Image After Solar Flare Sent Plasma Flying ...
Huffington Post
This image, which was just uploaded to the Goddard Flickr stream, was taken on September 11, 2005 from NASA's IMAGE spacecraft, and provides a look at the Southern Lights in a way we haven't seen in quite a while. But this image is special for a few ...
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| Nasa unveils fresh elevation map of the Earth Wired.co.uk By Duncan Geere A team of satellite engineers from Nasa and Japan has put together a fresh global digital elevation model, showing the height of every point on the Earth. Well, nearly every point. The satellites scanned up to 83 degrees latitude, ... See all stories on this topic » |  Wired.co.uk |
| Mars Rover Carries Device for Underground Scouting Jet Propulsion Laboratory A Russian-built, neutron-shooting instrument on the Curiosity rover ofNASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission will check for water-bearing minerals in the ground beneath the rover. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech An instrument on NASA's Mars rover ... See all stories on this topic » |  Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Pre-med student takes first in NASA poster competition Houston Baptist Collegian Junior Shannon Saganti presented her summer research at the 22nd Annual NASA Space radiation Investigators' Workshop in League City, Texas, on Sept. 20. | DINA ROHIRA/THE COLLEGIAN BY LAUREN SCHOENEMANN NASA recognized junior Shannon Saganti, ... See all stories on this topic » |  Houston Baptist Collegian |
Spitzer Snaps a Picture of the Coolest of Companions
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
These two infrared images were taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in 2004 and 2009. They show a faint object moving through space together with a dead star called a white dwarf. The object, thought to be a "failed" star, or brown dwarf, ...
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| NASA MODIS Image of the Day: October 20, 2011 - Tasmania Space Ref (press release) Like a rough-cut gem displayed on a jewelerÃs cloth, the spring-green landscape of Tasmania stood out against the deep blue background of ocean waters on October 18, 2011 when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASAÃs Aqua ... See all stories on this topic » |  Space Ref (press release) |
How NASA lab, Amazon share security responsibilities in the cloud
GCN.com
“When we started talking to Amazon about cloud computing, early on we saw that there was a separation of concerns,” said Khawaja Shams, a senior solutions architect withNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which runs software for the Mars Rover program ...
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| GPM satellite takes a spin on the high capacity centrifuge PhysOrg.com Credit: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth In the clean room at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md., the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core satellite is steadily taking shape. Set to measure rainfall worldwide after launch in ... See all stories on this topic » |  PhysOrg.com |
Scott promises space-based jobs
The Independent Florida Alligator
This summer's layoffs by a NASA shuttle contractor are discouraging, and it feels harder than ever to enter astronomy academia, he said. "Generally the first things that are cut [from universities] are basic scientific research," he said. ...
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Quintron Systems Secures DICES VoIP Projects from NASA
TMC Net
For Johnson Space Center (JSC), the first NASA-direct contract will provide a second DICES VoIP system. While the first DICES VoIP system delivered in 2010 will be deployed at another NASA site to be used as an emergency backup, this will become a...
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Why OpenStack adds up for Rackspace
ZDNet (blog)
Rackspace cooked up OpenStack—a cloud operating system—with NASA and has been among its largest evangelists as 125 companies have joined the movement. One large question for me has always revolved around why. Rackspace is a hosting and cloud...
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Danville students participate in NASA project
TMC Net
A group of students spent part of last Saturday using a radio-controlled model airplane owned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study how crop production has affected a field just west of Danville Middle School. ...
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Bolinger wins NASA power-lifting event
Gallatin North Missourian
John is a member of NASA (Natural Athletes Strength Association) Power-lifting. Competitors received three attempts per lift at a weight of their choosing during the match. The heaviest successful attempt from each separate lift is then taken and added...
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| 600 mysteries in the night sky PhysOrg.com NASA's Fermi team recently released the second catalog of gamma-ray sources detected by their satellite's Large Area Telescope (LAT). Of the 1873 sources found, nearly 600 are complete mysteries. No one knows what they are. ... See all stories on this topic » |  PhysOrg.com |
| NASA books flights on private 'spaceline' AOPA Pilot Photo credit: Jack Brockway NASA has entered into an agreement with Virgin Galactic, “the world's first commercial spaceline,” to embark on up to three scientific research flights in suborbital space. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, designed to carry ... See all stories on this topic » |  AOPA Pilot |
| Historic Space Shuttle Launch Pad Parts Arrive for Display in Houston Space.com HOUSTON — An iconic metal walkway and entrance room used for two decades by more than 50 astronaut crews to enter space shuttles atop the launch pad arrived at NASA's Johnson Space Center on Tuesday (Oct. 18), where they are to go on public display. ... See all stories on this topic » |  Space.com |
| Gathering of Eagles Salutes Space Shuttle Teams, benefits museum Edwards Air Force Base Before joining the space shuttle program Engle helped flight test the jointNASA-Air Force X-15 rocket airplane. Engle commanded one of two crews that flew approach and landing test flights on the space shuttle Enterprise, the program's first orbiter. ... See all stories on this topic » |  Edwards Air Force Base |
NASA To Test New Atomic Clock
Slashdot
The third technology demonstration planned by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the Deep Space Atomic Clock. The DSAC team plans to develop a small, low-mass atomic clock based on mercury-ion trap technology and demonstrate it in space. ...
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Columbus Founder and CEO honored by Ernst & Young
PR Newswire (press release)
Columbus is a premier Information Technology, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering and Scientific solutions company addressing critical research and technology issues for NASA, FAA, HHS, DoD, and commercial customers. Columbus staff scientists ...
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Crucial talks set next week for Loveland's ACE park
ReporterHerald.com
Officials of the Colorado Association of Manufacturing and Technology, the agency that is partnered with NASA on the project, said the development team from Cumberland & Western would spend most of the week planning for the project. ...
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| Enviornmental Science News - » NASA Takes A Look Back At A ... By RedOrbit NASA Takes A Look Back At A Decade Of Fires. “One of the most significant accomplishments of NASA's Applied Sciences Program has been to convince the Environmental Protection Agency of the value of using MODIS fire data in the CMAQ ... Enviornmental Science News |
| Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » TIME ... By Charlie Petit A NASA Jet Propulsion Lab press release propelled a small swarm of news stories in the last day or so. A good number of astronomers and planetary specialists, but few newsreporters, already got the word two weeks ago at a joint meeting of ... Knight Science Journalism Tracker |
| NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System ... By News Staff NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Pasadena, CA – NASA'sSpitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. The downpour resembles our own solar system several billion ... Clarksville, TN Online |
| 600 Mysteries in the Night Sky - NASA Science The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope recently produced a map of the night sky. Out of 1873 new sources, nearly 600 were complete mysteries. In today's ... science.nasa.gov/science-news/science.../18oct_600mysteries/ |
| Texas lawmakers press NASA for a “real” space shuttle for display in ... Texas lawmakers aren't giving up the fight to win a. blog.chron.com/.../texas-lawmakers-press-nasa-for-a-real-spac... |
| Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | NASA review clears way for ... A top NASA official told Congress on Wednesday an independent engineering team agrees with Russia's findings in an investigation into a failure of a Soyuz ... www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1110/13soyuz/ |
| NASA *News Flash* McDougal! | Powerlifting Watch NASA *News Flash* McDougal! Submitted by Staff on October 16, 2011 - 7:40pm . This weekend the NASA Unequipped Nationals are taken place in ... www.powerliftingwatch.com/node/20550 |
| Dawn Mission: News & Events > NASA's Dawn Science Team ... This full view of the giant asteroid Vesta was taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, as part of a rotation characterization sequence on July 24, 2011, at a distance of ... dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/feature.../science_team_early_results.asp |
| Virgin Galactic Snares NASA Shuttle Ops Guru : Discovery News Virgin Galactic, the startup of the world's first commercial spaceliner SpaceShipTwo, has caught the eye of NASA's shuttle operations chief, Mike Moses. news.discovery.com/.../virgin-galactic-snares-nasa-shuttle-oper... |
| NASA is asked to reconsider shuttle deal - Dayton Daily News WASHINGTON — Sen. Sherrod Brown has written to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to ask him to reconsider his decision to send the Enterprise space ... www.daytondailynews.com/.../nasa-is-asked-to-reconsider-shu... |
| Europe looks to Russia after NASA falls short on ExoMars : Nature ... Published online 14 October 2011 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2011.595 ... even thoughNASA has reneged on its promise to provide a launch rocket for the first ... www.nature.com/news/2011/111014/full/news.2011.595.html |
| Notable NASA news dominates desktop Military & Aerospace Electronics providing industry expertise covering avionics, rugged design and aerospace electronics, mil specs, commercial off-the-shelf ... www.militaryaerospace.com/.../post987_45330958022996078... |
| Houston Chronicle: Texas lawmakers press NASA for a “real” space ... Forty-two members of Congress — led by Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land – are pressing NASA to take a second look at a controversial decision to hand over ... culberson.house.gov/houston-chronicle-texas-lawmakers-press... |
| NASA Buys Flights on Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship The space tourism company Virgin Galactic has struck a deal with NASA worth up to $4.5 million for research flights on the company's new private spaceliner ... www.foxnews.com/.../nasa-buys-flights-on-virgin-galactics-pri... |
| NASA releases new interactive space communications game NASA has released an interactive, educational video game called NetworKing that depicts how the Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) network ... www.physorg.com/.../2011-10-nasa-interactive-space-game.ht... |
| Scientists Propose NASA Probe to Uranus - Yahoo! News Read 'Scientists Propose NASA Probe to Uranus' on Yahoo! News. According to Space.com, scientists are contemplating sending a robotic probe to Uranus, the ... news.yahoo.com/scientists-propose-nasa-probe-uranus-21140... |
| The Flame Trench space news and analysis: NASA offers view of ... This just in from The Associated Press: LAS CRUCES, N.M.—Virgin Galactic has hired a former NASA executive to oversee its Spaceport operat... NASA: Falling ... space.flatoday.net/2011/.../nasa-offers-view-of-kscs-future.ht... |
| News – Virgin Galactic signs deal with NASA for Research Missions ... Another exciting piece of news in the run up to our New Mexico Spaceport event on Monday! We have been informed by NASA, that, following a submission of ... www.virgingalactic.com/.../virgin-galactic-signs-deal-with-nas... |
| NASA Mourns a Great Loss About NASA · News · Member Benefits ... Napa Valley, CA (10/11/11) NASA Nor Cal Chief Instructor, Ralph Alexander passed away peacefully in his sleep on ... www.nasaproracing.com/2011/.../nasa-mourns-a-great-loss.ht.. |
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