• Anyone Need a Hubble Telescope?

    Updated: 2012-08-31 20:12:14
    NASA puzzles over what to do with a rare gift.

  • Today on New Scientist: 31 August 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-31 18:00:00
    : : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Today on New Scientist : 31 August 2012 18:00 31 August 2012 Today on New Scientist Full text RSS You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New . Scientist Twin craft head for heart of Earth's magnetic storm Dancing off the pre-dawn haze , eerie spotlights announced the launch of the first spacecraft to measure the bands of charged particles that encircle Earth Unsure robots make better teachers

  • Twin craft head for heart of Earth's magnetic storm

    Updated: 2012-08-31 17:35:00
    : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Twin craft head for heart of Earth's magnetic storm 17:35 31 August 2012 Picture of the Day Space Lisa Grossman , reporter Image : NASA Ben Smegelsky and Gary Thompson Cape Canaveral looks eerie at night particularly when spotlights are dancing off the pre-dawn haze . These lights announced the launch of NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes , on their way to become the first spacecraft to directly study

  • Alan Bond speech at Farnborough Air Show

    Updated: 2012-08-31 17:22:15
    Speech by Alan Bond, founder and Chief Engineer of Reaction Engines, at the Farnborough Air Show (video via Royal Aeronautical Society):-

  • Dune Migration on Mars

    Updated: 2012-08-31 14:43:52
    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 Dune Migration on Mars By Keith Cowing Posted August 31, 2012 10:43 AM View Comments NASA UA HiRISE Large sand dunes in the North Polar sand sea on Mars This image shows large sand dunes in the North Polar sand sea on Mars . It is one of a series of repeat images of the same dunes , taken at different times , in order to determine the type and extent of changes in the dunes over . time Dunes tend to migrate slowly on Earth under continuous wind regimes on the order of several to tens of meters per year and we are

  • Water Ice in Shackleton Crater's Walls

    Updated: 2012-08-31 01:06:03
    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 Water Ice in Shackleton Crater's Walls By Keith Cowing Posted August 30, 2012 9:06 PM View Comments NASA Radar Data LRO's Mini-RF Scientists using the Mini-RF radar on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO have estimated the maximum amount of ice likely to be found inside a permanently shadowed lunar crater located near the moon's South . Pole As much as five to ten percent of material , by weight , could be patchy ice , according to the team of researchers led by Bradley Thomson at Boston University's Center

  • Mars Society UK Regroup To Discuss Plan For Human Life On The Red Planet

    Updated: 2012-08-30 22:54:32
    The Huffington Post reviews the recent annual meeting of the Mars Society UK, which reformed after being dormant for about a decade. Mars Society UK Regroup To Discuss Plan For Human Life On The Red Planet -- Huffington Post UK

  • Leicester academic & UNESCO launch Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-08-30 22:48:27
    home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • Third International Symposium on Solar Sailing 2013

    Updated: 2012-08-30 22:38:17
    The Third International Symposium on Solar Sailing is to be held at the University of Strathclyde in 11th-13th June 2013: "Set sail for Glasgow and prepare to shine. Bringing together international experts, the symposium will provide a unique opportunity to discuss funded solar sail flight programs alongside on-going technology development and testing programs. It will also provide a forum for the discussion of enabling technologies, new application concepts, materials and structural concepts, space environmental effects, dynamics, navigation, control, and much more... See you there!" Solarsailing2013.com

  • Today on New Scientist: 30 August 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-30 18:00:00
    : : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Today on New Scientist : 30 August 2012 18:00 30 August 2012 Today on New Scientist Full text RSS You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New . Scientist Hot DOG surprise reveals new stage in galaxy evolution The discovery of hot dust-obscured galaxies could help answer an old riddle : which came first , galaxies or black holes Rosacea may be caused by mite faeces in your pores A common skin

  • Future Explorer: Robot or Human: Gotta-See Video

    Updated: 2012-08-30 16:23:02
    As private companies take over space exploration, will it be robots or humans who lead us to the stars?

  • Cassini shoots a hazy moon past Saturn's rings

    Updated: 2012-08-30 14:51:00
    : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Cassini shoots a hazy moon past Saturn's rings 14:51 30 August 2012 Space Douglas Heaven , reporter Image : NASA JPL-Caltech SSI Slashed across the hazy face of Titan , Saturn s rings bisect its largest moon . NASA's Cassini spacecraft was inside and just above the plane of the rings on 16 May when it took this natural-colour image , which was released yesterday . A thin sliver of Titan , 3 million kilometres

  • Space Quarterly Magazine September 2012 Table of Contents

    Updated: 2012-08-30 14:32:24
    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 Quarterly Magazine September 2012 Table of Contents By Marc Boucher Posted August 30, 2012 10:32 AM View Comments SpaceRef Space Quarterly Magazine The September 2012 edition of Space Quarterly Magazine is scheduled to be published on Tuesday , September 4. Here are the table of contents for the U.S . and Canadian . editions Space Quarterly September 2012 U.S Edition Table of Contents Leaders Interview : Jim Armor , Major General retired ATK Space Systems , Satellite Servicing and Small Satellites Coming of

  • Probes Launched Into Earth's Radiation Zone

    Updated: 2012-08-30 05:00:13
    A pair of science satellites, that will make the first detailed studies of Earth's Van Allen radiation belts, blasted off from Florida on Thursday.

  • Saturn and Titan

    Updated: 2012-08-30 02:22:11
    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 Saturn and Titan By Keith Cowing Posted August 29, 2012 10:22 PM View Comments NASA JPL SSI Saturn and Titan as seen by Cassini Posing for portraits for NASA's Cassini spacecraft , Saturn and its largest moon , Titan , show spectacular colors in a quartet of images being released today . One image captures the changing hues of Saturn's northern and southern hemispheres as they pass from one season to the . next The images can be found at http : www.nasa.gov cassini http : saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http :

  • Curiosity Begins Eastbound Trek

    Updated: 2012-08-30 02:19:57
    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 Curiosity Begins Eastbound Trek By Keith Cowing Posted August 29, 2012 10:19 PM View Comments NASA JPL Curiosity on the move NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about a quarter-mile 400 meters away , where it may begin using its . drill The rover drove eastward about 52 feet 16 meters on Tuesday , its 22nd Martian day after landing . This third drive was longer than Curiosity's first two drives combined . The previous drives tested the mobility

  • Today on New Scientist: 29 August 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-29 18:00:00
    : : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Today on New Scientist : 29 August 2012 18:00 29 August 2012 Today on New Scientist Full text RSS You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New . Scientist Can we deter athletes who self-harm to win The Paralympics may encourage a debate on a dangerous practice and potential ways to prevent it Arctic melt , smash and grab ahead Humanity's rapacious reaction to the Arctic ice minimum is depressingly

  • A year on the ISS: Good for tourists – and science

    Updated: 2012-08-29 12:39:00
    : : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy A year on the ISS : Good for tourists and science 12:39 29 August 2012 Space Victoria Jaggard , physical sciences news editor Image : NASA Is the ISS set to get its own phantom Reports are swirling that diva of London's West End Sarah Brightman whose angelic voice lofted her to stardom in the original stage cast of Phantom of the Opera is to begin training to become the next space tourist to visit the

  • How cool water eased hurricane Isaac's rage

    Updated: 2012-08-29 01:58:50
    : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy How cool water eased hurricane Isaac's rage 13:58 29 August 2012 Environment Picture of the Day Caroline Morley , online picture researcher Image : National Environmental Satellite , Data , and Information Service On the eve of Katrina's seventh anniversary , hurricane Isaac made its first landfall in Louisiana last night . But a period spent over cooler water means it will not follow Katrina's destructive

  • Dr. Pat Hynes, Monday, 8-27-12

    Updated: 2012-08-28 18:08:27
    Dr. Pat Hynes, Monday, 8-27-12 http://archived.thespaceshow.com/shows/1841-BWB-2012-08-27.mp3 Guest:  Dr. Pat Hynes.  Topics:  International symposium for Personal & Commercial Spaceflight (www.ispcs.com).  You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show programming. Transcripts of Space [...]

  • Isaac Churns in the Gulf

    Updated: 2012-08-28 17:39:41
    This visible image of Tropical Storm Isaac taken from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite shows the huge extent of the storm, where the eastern-most clouds lie over the Carolinas and the western-most clouds are brushing east Texas. The image was captured on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 at 10:25 a.m. EDT. Image Credit: NASA GOES Project. Larger image

  • Flutter: Fast and Fatal

    Updated: 2012-08-28 17:36:39
    Aerodynamic flutter can be deadly, but it wasn't until recently that it was even understood.

  • First mating humpback whale image wins photo prize

    Updated: 2012-08-28 14:57:00
    : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy First mating humpback whale image wins photo prize 14:57 28 August 2012 Life Picture of the Day Caroline Morley , online picture researcher Image : Jason Edwards Jason Edwards has won the New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography for the second year running with this image of a pair of mating humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae Edwards took the first underwater photograph of humpbacks mating off

  • Telephoto Views From Martian Surface

    Updated: 2012-08-28 13:30:49
    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 Telephoto Views From Martian Surface By Keith Cowing Posted August 28, 2012 9:30 AM View Comments NASA Mount Sharp NASA's Mars Curiosity has debuted the first recorded human voice that traveled from Earth to another planet and . back n spoken words radioed to the rover on Mars and back to NASA's Deep Space Network DSN on Earth , NASA Administrator Charles Bolden noted the difficulty of landing a rover on Mars , congratulated NASA employees and the agency's commercial and government partners on the successful

  • Arctic Sea Ice At Record Low

    Updated: 2012-08-27 19:30:49
    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 Arctic Sea Ice At Record Low By Keith Cowing Posted August 27, 2012 3:30 PM View Comments Sea Ice Extent for 2012 NASA NSIDC The extent of the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has shrunk . According to scientists from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center NSIDC in Boulder , Colo . the amount is the smallest size ever observed in the three decades since consistent satellite observations of the polar cap . began NASA and NSIDC scientists will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m . EDT ,

  • 41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View

    Updated: 2012-08-27 16:14:15
    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 41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View By Keith Cowing Posted August 27, 2012 12:14 PM View Comments Fermilab Kepler's Transiting Planets Two newly submitted studies verify 41 new transiting planets in 20 star systems . These results may increase the number of Kepler's confirmed planets by more than 50 percent : to 116 planets hosted in 67 systems , over half of which contain more than one planet . The papers are currently under scientific peer-review . The diagram shows the newly submitted transiting

  • Astronauts Searching for Life - Underground

    Updated: 2012-08-27 14:12:16
    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 Astronauts Searching for Life Underground By Keith Cowing Posted August 27, 2012 10:12 AM View Comments ESA Astronauts Exploring a Cave Astronauts dream of finding new life and for a select crew that dream might be within reach this week albeit deep underground instead of in outer . space An international crew of six astronauts will start training for a caving adventure designed to prepare them for . spaceflight CAVES , an abbreviation of Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and

  • Neil Alden Armstrong 1930-2012

    Updated: 2012-08-26 22:46:05
    home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • The First Human to Walk on the Moon has Died - Neil Armstrong Dead at 82

    Updated: 2012-08-25 19:45:04
    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 The First Human to Walk on the Moon has Died Neil Armstrong Dead at 82 By Marc Boucher Posted August 25, 2012 3:45 PM View Comments NASA Neil Armstrong Mulitple sources in and around NASA and the space community confirm to SpaceRef that Neil Armstrong , the first human to walk on another world , has died at the age of 82. This is a hinge in . history Statement from the Family of Neil A . Armstrong We are heartbroken to share the news that Neil Armstrong has passed away following complications resulting from

  • JBIS papers 1999-2011 now online

    Updated: 2012-08-25 12:02:26
    Papers from the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society from 1999-2011 are now online and available to purchase. The papers cover a wide range of topics from the economics of space development, spacecraft engineering, space tourism, SETI and the philosophy of Humanity's expansion into space. We are working towards making the entire archive from 1934 onwards available online though a variety of routes. Watch this space!

  • UK Space Design Competition: A Video Documentary

    Updated: 2012-08-25 11:54:15
    A short documentary about the UK Space Design Competition:

  • Today on New Scientist: 24 August 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-24 18:00:00
    : : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Today on New Scientist : 24 August 2012 18:00 24 August 2012 Today on New Scientist Full text RSS You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New . Scientist Giant fractals are out the universe is a big smoothie The notion that matter in the universe appears in never-ending nests of clusters has lost its footing thanks to the analysis of a huge , 3D map of galaxies New Scientist Eureka Photography

  • Space: Mining's next frontier

    Updated: 2012-08-23 18:18:34
    The BBC reviews plans for mining of the Moon and near-Earth asteroids, and the ownership issues posed by the Outer Space Treaty:- Space: Mining's next frontier? -- BBC Online

  • Sarah Brightman may be next space tourist

    Updated: 2012-08-23 18:13:49
    home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • Today on New Scientist: 23 August 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-23 18:00:00
    : : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Today on New Scientist : 23 August 2012 18:00 23 August 2012 Today on New Scientist Full text RSS You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New . Scientist Zoologger : Wood-eating shrimp from the ocean's depths The amphipod Hirondellea gigas has evolved a unique digestive system that allows it to survive at the bottom of the Mariana Trench Los Angeles smog thins , but remains a threat Fifty years

  • MSL Curiosity Descent Video

    Updated: 2012-08-22 21:05:50
    Full-resolution video compiled from frames taken by the MARDI (Mars Descent Imager) camera on MSL Curiosity:

  • Today on New Scientist: 22 August 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-22 18:00:59
    : : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Today on New Scientist : 22 August 2012 18:00 22 August 2012 Full text RSS You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New . Scientist Older fathers pass on more mutations Men gain two new mutations in their sperm cells each year , some of which may be beneficial , but others could be related to conditions like autism Galactic axis of asymmetry' threatens cosmic order Baffling rows of spiral galaxies

  • Arctic sea ice set to hit record low within days

    Updated: 2012-08-22 15:36:27
    : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Arctic sea ice set to hit record low within days 15:36 22 August 2012 Environment Michael Marshall , environment reporter As Arctic summers go , 2012 is on track to be a record breaker . Both the sea ice and the Greenland ice sheet are shrinking to new lows this . year We reported last week that the Arctic sea ice is melting more than any previous year on record September 2007 currently holds the record for

  • Elon Musk lecture: SpaceX and the future of space exploration

    Updated: 2012-08-22 00:17:19
    : home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • RocketMotorTwo Hot Fire Test 15

    Updated: 2012-08-22 00:09:06
    (Source: Scaled Composites) Fire: 15 Date: 9 Aug 12 Objectives: Fifteenth full scale flight design RM2 hot-fire. Continued evaluation of all systems and components: - Pressurization - Valve/Injector - Fuel formulation and geometry - Nozzle - Structure Results: All objectives completed. Performed targeted 45 second hot fire as planned. Duration of burn chosen to allow examination of internal geometry.

  • The RAF’s Manned Space Programme

    Updated: 2012-08-21 22:31:42
    home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • Nonsense data reveal Mars rover's damaged sensor

    Updated: 2012-08-21 22:09:00
    : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Nonsense data reveal Mars rover's damaged sensor 22:09 21 August 2012 Mars Space Lisa Grossman , physical sciences reporter Image : NASA JPL-Caltech After wiggling its wheels in the Martian soil , the Mars rover Curiosity was pronounced fit to take its first test drive tomorrow . But amidst the fanfare comes news of the rover's first science casualty . nbsp During shakedown tests this week , the team

  • Today on New Scientist: 21 August 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-21 18:00:00
    : : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Today on New Scientist : 21 August 2012 18:00 21 August 2012 Today on New Scientist Full text RSS You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New . Scientist Bitcoin credit card to let users withdraw cash Those with funds in the online peer-to-peer currency Bitcoin may soon be able to withdraw real world cash directly from an ATM First UK hydrogen train takes passengers for a ride Watch the first

  • Spacecraft builders follow in dinosaurs' footsteps

    Updated: 2012-08-21 16:10:00
    : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Spacecraft builders follow in dinosaurs' footsteps 16:10 21 August 2012 Life Picture of the Day Space Caroline Morley , online picture researcher Image : Ray Stanford It's not often we get a story linking palaeontology to outer space , unless we're discussing the asteroid theory for the mass extinction of dinosaurs . However , dinosaur prints from the Cretaceous period have been discovered on land now

  • NASA decides to send robotic seismologist to Mars

    Updated: 2012-08-20 23:55:35
    : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy NASA decides to send robotic seismologist to Mars 23:55 20 August 2012 Mars Space Peter Aldhous , San Francisco bureau chief Image : JPL NASA Do Marsquakes rock the Red Planet How big is its core These and other questions should be answered by the next mission in NASA's Discovery programme which aims to put top-quality science into space on a shoestring budget in relative terms , at . least The 425 million

  • Remembering Phyllis Diller

    Updated: 2012-08-20 21:27:33
    A story from when the famed comedian joined Bob Hope on his USO tours.

  • Today on New Scientist: 20 August 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-20 18:00:00
    : : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Today on New Scientist : 20 August 2012 18:00 20 August 2012 Today on New Scientist Full text RSS You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New . Scientist US emissions lowest since 1992 Many US power companies have dropped coal in favour of lower-carbon natural gas , but the coal is being burned elsewhere in the world Uncanny human double exposed as robot when it blinks Watch an exclusive video of

  • Space Show-SWF Webinar, On-Orbit Satellite Servicing, Sunday, 8-19-12

    Updated: 2012-08-20 17:38:38
    Space Show-SWF Webinar, On-Orbit Satellite Servicing, Sunday, 8-19-12 http://archived.thespaceshow.com/shows/1836-BWB-2012-08-19.mp3 https://vimeo.com/channels/thespaceshow  – Webinar Video Guests:  Brian Weeden, Richard DalBello, Major General, USAF (Retired) James B. Armor, Jr..  This is a SWF sponsored webinar addressing issues related to the on-orbit servicing of satellites.  You are invited to comment, ask questions, & discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on [...]

  • Bigfoot (spider) found hiding in Oregon cave

    Updated: 2012-08-20 16:01:00
    : Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Bigfoot spider found hiding in Oregon cave 16:01 20 August 2012 Life Picture of the Day Molly Docherty , contributor Images : California Academy of Sciences Bigfoot may still elude us , but its spider counterpart has turned up in a US cave . The creature is so unusual it could transform our understanding of arachnid . evolution Arachnologists from the California Academy of Sciences working with citizen

  • An Appeal: The Hewitt Camera Plate Archive

    Updated: 2012-08-19 21:49:09
    : home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • SS2 test flight updates: Glide-flight envelope cleared

    Updated: 2012-08-18 11:59:13
    : home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • Twin-rotor tailsitter vehicle design for Mars exploration

    Updated: 2012-08-18 10:44:20
    home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • Astronaut Tim Peake invites students to apply for space class of 2013

    Updated: 2012-08-17 23:15:41
    home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • Sold American: Space auction aims to raise money for Astronaut Scholarship Foundation

    Updated: 2012-08-17 21:59:35
    Want Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise to visit your kids’ classroom? That’s currently going for $1,300 How about a pair of closeout gloves from Gemini XII. That’s going for $160. I’m kind of keen on a collection of matchbooks commemorating the Apollo missions. That’s going for $50, a little more my speed. These are all items part of [...]

  • Space Glasgow: Space -- collaboration, funding and the future

    Updated: 2012-08-17 09:56:07
    : , home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • VIDEO: We're NASA And We Know It

    Updated: 2012-08-17 09:45:19
    This is just awesome ;3

  • 750 Meters Later

    Updated: 2012-08-16 22:32:43
    Masten Space System's test vehicle, Xombie, took a nice ride this week.

  • Carlotta, the Lady Aeronaut

    Updated: 2012-08-16 18:07:15
    An 1880 balloon jaunt ends with our heroine up a tree.

  • UK Space Design Competition 2013

    Updated: 2012-08-16 00:51:35
    The UK Space Design Competition 2013 is now open to entries from all UK secondary school students in years 9-13. "Teams must consist of between 8 and 12 students, plus a supervising adult, but need not be affiliated with any particular institution. This means that schools, colleges, science clubs, and societies are all free to enter a team, provided that the above criteria are satisfied." Teams are tasked with designing a space settlement in support of large-scale asteroid mining. The deadline for entries is 11.59pm on 16th November, 2012. UK Space Design Competition 2013

  • UKSEDS Ecliptic

    Updated: 2012-08-16 00:41:36
    The latest issue of Ecliptic, the newsletter from UKSEDS (UK Students for the Exploration & Development of Space) is now available. Contents include: International Rocket Week 2012 Mars Society UK Conference From Imagination to Reality: Conference SpaceUp EU Find An Asteroid Project Sir Arthur Clarke Awards Subscribe via the form on the .

  • RAeS Lecture: Medical Evacuation for Human Space Flight

    Updated: 2012-08-16 00:33:08
    : home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • Britain to Mars? ZDNet reviews "Troy" Mars mission design

    Updated: 2012-08-16 00:29:21
    ZDNet reviews the Troy manned Mars mission architecture designed by Reaction Engines Ltd. With Curiosity on Mars is it time to look at sending people? -- ZDNet Troy - Mission to Mars from Reaction Engines Ltd on Vimeo.

  • Cranfield Aerospace builds X-48C blended-wing prototype aircraft for NASA

    Updated: 2012-08-16 00:24:07
    home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • NASA to Stop Outsourcing Space to Russia

    Updated: 2012-08-14 17:35:42
    Right now if NASA wants to send people to space it has to outsource the task to Russia (or actually Kazakhstan). Well now NASA has come up with a plan to stop the outsourcing. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has chosen Space X from California, Boeing from Illinois and Sierra Nevada from Colorado to [...]

  • Take a Seat

    Updated: 2012-08-13 20:23:21
    Sixty-six years ago this week, Sergeant Lawrence Lambert became the first person in the U.S. to be ejected from a high-speed aircraft.

  • Packing for Spaceflight

    Updated: 2012-08-13 14:49:49
    Museum staffers are busy outfitting our new shuttle middeck for spaceflight. No, not the actual crew compartment of Discovery, now on display at the Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. This middeck is a reproduction recently installed in the Moving Beyond Earth gallery at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. The middeck is [...]

  • Video: Test of Clyde Space deployable solar panels

    Updated: 2012-08-09 14:18:07
    A microgravity test of deployable solar panels on a Clyde Space smallsat:

  • IET Solar Storms seminar

    Updated: 2012-08-09 12:45:09
    28 September 2012 IET, Savoy Place, London Join us on 28 September 2012, for the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) first case study driven Solar Storms seminar – it’s time to take your seats as science and business come together to grapple with the challenges of solar storm forecasting to culminate in engineering solutions that can withstand the effects of solar storms. More information...

  • UK Space Agency head to leave for a Land Down Under

    Updated: 2012-08-09 01:21:06
    Dr. David Williams, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency, will be leaving the organisation in November. He has been appointed as Group Executive, Information Sciences at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Sydney, Australia. UK Space Agency's CEO moving down under -- UK Space Agency

  • Survival Training, Cosmonaut Style

    Updated: 2012-08-09 01:13:12
    New cosmonauts brush up on their wilderness skills in Kazakhstan.

  • Sir Arthur Clarke Awards 2012: Nominations open

    Updated: 2012-08-09 01:13:11
    : home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • BIS Lecture: The Pre-Astronauts: Floating at the Threshold of Space

    Updated: 2012-08-09 01:08:41
    : : home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • Skylon: Futuristic space plane concept moves closer to reality

    Updated: 2012-08-09 01:03:04
    : home forum newsfeeds videos calendar Home User login Username : Password : Create new account Request new password Navigation Calendar Forums Recent posts Alt.Space News Videos Blue Peter Rocket See the video UK Space Links Airborne Engineering AspireSpace ASTRA AstroEngine.com Bristol Spaceplanes Britain in Space British Interplanetary Society British Reaction Research BSTC Rocket Support Group Cambridge University Spaceflight Celestial Mechanics ESERO-UK Excalibur Almaz Observer International Space Propulsion ISP Group ISIC JBIS new LESEDS Mars Society UK new National Space Centre Orbiting Frog OurSpace Project Icarus Purley Amateur Rocketry Society RAeS Space Links RAL Space Reaction Engines . Ltd Rocket Corner Space.co.uk Space Answers All About Space new Spaceboosters Space

  • Alan G. Poindexter (1961–2012)

    Updated: 2012-08-08 19:59:43
    Astronaut Alan “Dex” Poindexter joined fellow Space Shuttle commanders and crewmembers at the Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center recently to welcome Discovery to its new home in the Smithsonian. Poindexter commanded the next-to-last Discovery mission, STS-131, in 2010. He also served as pilot on Atlantis for the STS-122 mission in 2008. Both shuttle crews delivered [...]

  • Drive on Curiosity, Drive On!

    Updated: 2012-08-06 16:21:30
    “You put an X anyplace in the solar system, and the engineers at NASA can land a spacecraft on it,” so said actor Robert Guillaume in an episode of “Sports Night,” a situation comedy about a team that produced a nightly cable sports broadcast in 2001. Amen brother, the team that landed Curiosity proved the [...]

Current Feed Items | Previous Months Items

Jul 2012 | Jun 2012 | May 2012 | Apr 2012 | Mar 2012 | Feb 2012