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Air Force considering taking over NOAA weather satellite
Space News - 26 Jan 2017 01:17
The Air Force is considering taking over an existing geostationary orbit weather satellite operated by NOAA to help fill a gap in coverage over the Indian Ocean. SpaceNews.com
Rogue NASA, EPA, NPS Twitter Accounts Launched to Protest Trump Directives
Universe Today - 26 Jan 2017 08:16
Rogue sites protesting the Trump team's new guidelines for federal agencies are popping up everywhere. The post Rogue NASA, EPA, NPS Twitter Accounts Launched to Protest Trump Directives appeared first on Universe Today.
The Universe Is Expanding Surprisingly Fast
SPACE.com - 26 Jan 2017 17:01
The universe really is expanding faster than scientists had thought, new research suggests.
NASA Webb Telescope Resumes Rigorous Vibration Qualification Tests
Universe Today - 26 Jan 2017 06:38
Engineers have resumed a series of critical and rigorous vibration qualification tests on NASA's mammoth James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland to confirm its safe...
Micro Spacecraft Investigates Cometary Water Mystery
SpaceRef - 26 Jan 2017 06:33
In September 2015, a team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, University of Michigan, Kyoto Sangyo University, Rikkyo University and the University of Tokyo successfully observed the entir...
DARPA's satellite-servicing project comes under congressional fire
Space News - 26 Jan 2017 03:38
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is being asked to reconsider a satellite-servicing demonstration mission it plans to put under contract this year. SpaceNews.com
A New Test for Life on Other Planets
PTTU - 26 Jan 2017 23:35
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:
Science Results - Cosmic Lenses Bring the Universe's Expansion into Sharper Focus
PTTU - 26 Jan 2017 22:00
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Twitter@RogueNASA Goes Into White-House Orbit --"USA Scientists Launching Private Accounts to End-Run Trump Administration"
The Daily Galaxy - 26 Jan 2017 20:23
Twitter is fast proving to be a two-edged social-media sword. Employees from NASA and more than a dozen other U.S. government agencies, according to Reuters, have established a network of unofficial "rogue" Twitter feeds...
Hundreds honor 3 astronauts lost in Apollo fire 50 years ago
Phys.org - 26 Jan 2017 20:12
Moonwalkers and dozens of others who took part in NASA's Apollo program are paying tribute to the three astronauts killed in a fire 50 years ago.
NASA Airborne Mission Chases Air Pollution Through the Seasons
PTTU - 26 Jan 2017 20:10
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center:
The Purple Pulsar --"Strangest Object in the Milky Way?"
The Daily Galaxy - 26 Jan 2017 19:49
NASA has observed a purple blob -a highly magnetized rotating pulsar- spinning through the Milky Way. The image was captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, a gliding telescope in Earth's orbit tasked with observing hi...
Budget likely to be first indication of Trump's space priorities
Space News - 26 Jan 2017 19:46
The space community likely has a few more months to wait before it gets an idea of what U.S. space policy under the Donald Trump administration may look like, a top aerospace analyst said Jan. 25. SpaceNews.com
NASA's Aurora-Watching Rocket Campaign Blasts Off
SPACE.com - 26 Jan 2017 18:51
NASA is launching rockets into auroras.
Elon Musk Sees Brain-Computer Systems in Humans' Future
SPACE.com - 26 Jan 2017 18:45
Elon Musk has a plan to help humans keep up with artificial intelligence.
National Science Foundation seeking parter for Arecibo radio telescope
Space News - 26 Jan 2017 18:43
NSF wants to cut its share of costs down to $2 million, with the new partners making up the difference. SpaceNews.com
NASA Observes Extreme Rainfall Over Southern California
SpaceRef - 26 Jan 2017 18:34
NASA calculated California's rainfall over seven days using a constellation of satellites and created a map to provide the visual extent of the large rainfall totals....
Hubble Space Telescope Reveals New Estimate of Speed of Expansion of the Universe --"Hints at a New Physics"
The Daily Galaxy - 26 Jan 2017 18:17
The Hubble constant is crucial for modern astronomy as it can help to confirm or refute whether our picture of the Universe -- composed of dark energy, dark matter and normal matter -- is actually correct, or if we are.....
Trump White House adds a former NASA deputy to the mix
Space News - 26 Jan 2017 18:17
Among the new people trickling into NASA Headquarters during the Trump administration's first Washington work week is a familiar face: former NASA deputy administrator Shana Dale. SpaceNews.com
New space weather model helps simulate magnetic structure of solar storms
Phys.org - 26 Jan 2017 17:54
The dynamic space environment that surrounds Earth - the space our astronauts and spacecraft travel through - can be rattled by huge solar eruptions from the sun, which spew giant clouds of magnetic energy and plasma, a ...
Future of Legendary Arecibo Observatory Dims --Threatened By China's Next-Generation FAST Radio Telescope (VIDEO)
The Daily Galaxy - 26 Jan 2017 17:35
The future of one of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the world's largest single-dish radio telescopes is in question after the U.S. National Science Foundation announced Wednesday it was accepting proposals from ...
Commerce secretary nominee vows to support climate research
Space News - 26 Jan 2017 17:13
Wilbur Ross wrote that he will "continue to research, monitor, and report climate information to the public." SpaceNews.com