Space News
First image released from world's super radio telescope
Phys.org - 17 Jul 2016 11:36
Even operating at a quarter of its eventual capacity, South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope showed off its phenomenal power Saturday, revealing 1,300 galaxies in a tiny corner of the universe where only 70 were known be...
SpaceX Midnight Launch Carrying Crucial Docking Port and Science to ISS Set for July 18, Plus Loud Land Landing - Watch Live
Universe Today - 17 Jul 2016 05:59
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The outlook is outstanding for a dramatic midnight blastoff of the next SpaceX commercial cargo Dragon jam packed with some 5000 pounds of critical payloads and research supplies for NASA and h...
First Light From MeerKAT
SpaceRef - 17 Jul 2016 20:05
The MeerKAT First Light image of the sky, released today by Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, shows unambiguously that MeerKAT is already the best radio telescope of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.....
NASA Briefing for the SpaceX CRS-9 Resupply Mission to the International Space Station
SpaceRef - 17 Jul 2016 15:44
A press briefing was held on July 16 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to provide a prelaunch status update on the next SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station....
This Week at NASA: New Space Station Crew and More
SpaceRef - 17 Jul 2016 15:35
The Expedition 48/49 crew that launched July 7 from Kazakhstan arrived as scheduled at the International Space Station July 9 Eastern time....
A Moment of Clarity in the Milky Way
Bad Astronomy - 17 Jul 2016 15:30
There are times in life--perhaps too few, but they exist--when you can try to grasp the Universe, and a piece of understanding settles into your mind like the glow of a billion stars. This photograph, titled "Moment of C...
SpaceX Aims to Re-Launch Landed Rocket This Fall
SPACE.com - 17 Jul 2016 14:30
The California-based company plans to launch one of its landed rockets for the first time a few months from now.
Russian Cargo Ships Launches with Cargo Destined for the International Space Station
SpaceRef - 17 Jul 2016 14:00
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the unpiloted ISS Progress 64 cargo ship launched at 5:41 p.m. Eastern time July 16 (3:41 a.m. Baikonur time on July 17), carrying three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the r...
Three Supernova Shells Around a Young Star Cluster
PTTU - 17 Jul 2016 13:00
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING):
Russia launches ISS-bound cargo ship
Phys.org - 17 Jul 2016 11:37
A Russian rocket carrying an unmanned cargo ship blasted off for the International Space Station early Sunday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency said.
SpaceX launching space station docking port for NASA
Phys.org - 17 Jul 2016 11:31
SpaceX aims to launch another load of space station supplies for NASA, including a critical docking port needed by new U.S. crew capsules set to debut next year.