Tagged: Space
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James Webb Space Telescope’s first instrument ready for NASA News
10.05.2012 A European consortium has completed the first instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the infrared space observatory that’s set to blast into space in 2018 to find... -
Soyuz spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan after ISS stint News
27.04.2012 The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft has returned safely from the International Space Station, with its three crew members. The spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan today at 7.45am EDT,... -
ESA inks €300m deal with Astrium UK to build sun explorer News
27.04.2012 The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Astrium, a subsidiary of EADS, a contract worth around €300m to build its next-generation sun explorer, which will carry the name of... -
Space shuttle Discovery prepares for final flight today News
17.04.2012 If you happen to be in the Washington, DC, area today between 10am and 11am EDT, you should cast your eyes upwards, as the space shuttle Discovery will be making its final trip... -
Weekend news roundup: another dot.com bubble, Iraq's telecoms boost, HSE conspiracy case News
16.04.2012 A roundup of technology news coverage in some of the weekend's newspapers, including the potential of another dot-com bubble with Facebook's US$1bn acquisition of Instagram,...Categories: Telecommunications, Science, R&D, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Energy, Consumer Tech, Computers -
ESA’s Envisat satellite stops sending data to Earth News
13.04.2012 The European Space Agency (ESA) has declared a spacecraft emergency as it is trying to establish why its Envisat satellite has suddenly stopped sending data to Earth after 10... -
NASA pioneers new atomic clock for deep space exploration News
11.04.2012 NASA is pioneering a new deep space atomic clock so future spacecrafts will be able to calculate their own timing and navigation data in real time. -
IBM and ASTRON to help scientists explore the Big Bang News
02.04.2012 ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, and IBM are preparing to engage in a €2.9m five-year collaboration to research the exascale computer systems that are... -
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos wants to reclaim Apollo 11 space debris from Atlantic News
29.03.2012 Amazon founder and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos has today issued a web statement, indicating how he is going to be working with undersea experts to recover the Apollo 11 engines... -
NASA’s suborbital rockets to light up night skies News
26.03.2012 Following a couple of delays, NASA is gearing up to launch five sounding rockets into space early in the morning on 27 March. The launch window will be between 2am and 5am EDT.... -
Europe’s supply ship blasts off for International Space Station News
23.03.2012 The European Space Agency’s ATV Edoardo Amaldi successfully lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, today at 4.34am GMT on an Ariane launcher. It’s now... -
NASA finds ‘unusual’ geologic features on Vesta asteroid News
22.03.2012 NASA’s Dawn spacecraft scientists say they have discovered “unexpected details” on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta, which is one of the brightest objects in the solar... -
Angry Birds Space lands today News
22.03.2012 Angry Birds Space is out now for PC, Mac, iOS and Android devices, bringing the challenge of zero gravity conditions to the bird-shooting, mega-hit game. -
Angry Birds to spread wings and launch UK activity parks News
21.03.2012 Earlier this month it was the International Space Station for Angry Birds, now it’s activity parks to bring kids out of the virtual world and help tackle childhood obesity in... -
Ashton Kutcher set to fly on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo News
20.03.2012 Actor Ashton Kutcher is the latest person to sign up to fly on Virgin Galactic’s first ever space voyage as an astronaut tourist, Richard Branson has revealed in his blog. -
Irish engineers to blast telescopic boom into space from Arctic Circle News
16.03.2012 A team of DIT engineering students will next Thursday launch a telescopic boom system on the REXUS 11 rocket into space from the Arctic Circle. -
Earth Hour to extend to International Space Station News
15.03.2012 Earth Hour will extend to the International Space Station for the first time this year, where European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and WWF ambassador André Kuipers will keep... -
Today is anniversary of Einstein’s birth and Pi Day News
14.03.2012 Today would have been the 133rd birthday of the German-born theoretical physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein. It’s also Pi Day, when the mathematical constant π is... -
Sun erupts with M7.9-class solar flare – NASA News
14.03.2012 Sunspot 1429 remains active, after the sun erupted with an M7.9-class flare yesterday from the same region that has been producing flares and coronal mass ejections all week,...