The 140 m - 310 metre wide asteroid 2010 UG7 will make a close pass (56.5 lunar distances, 0.1451 AU), travelling at 21.20 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st October, 2010 @ 13:36 UT. See more The Lunar Distance...
The 14 - 31 metre wide asteroid 2010 UZ6 made a close pass (13.5 lunar distances, 0.0348 AU), travelling at 8.17 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th October, 2010 @ 12:34 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the...
How? Who? Why? From Agatha Christie to Dan Brown, all the best thriller writers know the value of leaving these questions dangling until the last page. But at least we discover the answers in the end. If mankind endures ten million years we may never discover the who and why of the most tantalising enig...
STS-61-A (also known as D-1) was the 22nd Space Shuttle mission. It was a scientific Spacelab mission funded and controlled by West Germany - hence the non-NASA name of D-1 (for Deutschland 1). It was also the last successful mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. STS-61-A holds the record for the...
Bermuda cancelled ferry services and urged islanders to secure their boats as Tropical Storm Shary swirled toward the tiny British Atlantic territory Friday. Read more
The United States, Australia and Canada have voiced concerns to China over the first known satellite-killing test in space in more than 20 years, the White House said Thursday. “The U.S. believes China’s development and testing of such weapons is inconsistent with the spirit of c...
European Satellite Navigation Competition awards This year's ESA Innovation Prize for the European Satellite Navigation Competition has been awarded to an application that uses satellites to detect river pollution. A separate prize supported by ESA was awarded to a startup company for a pione...
The Paris-based Eutelsat company says its latest spacecraft has failed less than 24 hours after being launched on an Ariane rocket from French Guiana. The satellite operator said the W3B platform had developed a leak in its propellant system and could not raise itself to its operational orbit. [ur...
When most people think of NASA, they think of rockets and space travel, but for one weekend each year, the majesty of flight is adored in the form of hot air balloons. The 18th annual Ballunar Liftoff Festival takes place between Friday, Oct. 29 and Saturday, Oct. 31 at the NASA/Johnson Space Center. [...
More than 50 people braved the cold to explore the night sky above Oxfords South Park. The session, which was led by Dr Ian Griffin, an astronomer and the chief executive of Science Oxford, aimed to teach budding astronomers more about the stars. [url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown...
The Russian Rocket Forces successfully test launched a Topol/SS-25 missile from the Plesetsk test site toward the Kura test range in Kamchatka, at 13:38 Moscow time (09:38 UTC), 3rd August, 2006 .
The launch was to test the currently deployed Topol missiles. According to a Rocket Forces represe...
Meteor Showers There are many minor meteor showers this month... Orionids produce rates of 5-15/hour with occasional surges in activity that may reach 25 or even 50/hour. The shower's radiant near Betelgeuse is best-placed just before morning twilight begins. Its radiant is R.A. 6hr 20m Dec +16 d...
The 370 - 820 metre wide asteroid 2003 UV11 will make a close pass (5.0 lunar distances, 0.0130 AU), travelling at 25.35 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th October, 2010 @ 04:14 UT. See more The Lunar Distance...
Lockheed Martin-Built BSAT-3b Satellite Ready for Launch The BSAT-3b broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) of Japan, is ready for liftoff on Oct. 28 aboard an Ariane 5-ECA launch vehicle provided by Arianespac...
Alderney aims for dark sky status to promote astronomy Dark-Sky status was in the news in the Bailiwick in 2010 as Sark bid to become the world's first Dark-Sky Island. This was due to its lack of light pollution being an ideal spot for astronomers, with this in mind Alderney started looking into joini...
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