Students Launch Experiments From NM Spaceport The flight was delayed about 45 minutes, but the launch of rocket into sub-orbital space from Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico was successful. According to the Spaceport America website, a live webcast and chat said that the d...
Strange Light In Sky Still Unknown It moved faster than a bottle rocket, was smaller than an airplane and didn't fall from the sky. Beyond that, the question of what was caught on a News 5 skycam at the end of Tuesday's 11 p.m. newscast remains unanswered. [url=http://www.wlwt.com/news/23462925/d...
Unusual feature lies under Ames It packed so much energy that surface temperatures even 100 miles away rose 500 degrees in an instant. Here at ground zero, what remained was a crater eight miles across and a half-mile deep. But no one had a clue about the event until one day in 1991. That's when Rex Olson...
Orbital elements: 2010 JM1 Earth MOID = 0.0333 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 35.90098 (2000.0) P Q n 0.42818068 Peri. 171.37926 -0.78282895 +0.61595067 a 1.7433503 Node 47.02667 -0.57783982 -0.66703206 e 0.4037992 Incl. 6.92556 -0.23082456 -0.41913363 P 2.30 H 25.9 G 0.15 U 7 [ur...
Orbital elements: 2010 JL1 Earth MOID = 0.0358 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 209.40968 (2000.0) P Q n 1.10220739 Peri. 40.99635 +0.12342127 -0.96182821 a 0.9281692 Node 43.60412 +0.79275372 -0.05248300 e 0.1940673 Incl. 20.74081 +0.59691602 +0.26857405 P 0.89 H 25.4 G 0.15 U 8 [u...
I was delighted to see Andy Boddington's letter on April 19 about reducing street lighting to give us back the night skies. As an astronomy enthusiast living in the Strettons I particularly support his proposal for a starlight sanctuary in the south Shropshire Hills. [url=http://www.shropshire...
Orbital elements: 2010 HW81 Earth MOID = 0.1177 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 19.98138 (2000.0) P Q n 0.73420268 Peri. 93.61960 +0.79162729 +0.58638975 a 1.2169108 Node 230.56541 -0.61057394 +0.74865757 e 0.7319540 Incl. 12.84297 -0.02292793 +0.30928772 P 1.34 H 21.4 G 0.15 U 9 [...
The 8 - 17 metre wide asteroid 2008 TE will make a close pass (45.3 lunar distances, 0.1165 AU), travelling at 15.27 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th May, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance be...
Maxima of long period variable HT Camelopardus on the 6th May, 2010 Magnitude: 13.0 - <17.5 V Period: unknown Satellite period: 0.059712 days Type: Position (2000): RA 07 57 01.33, Dec 63 06 01.39
Günter F. Wendt (August 28, 1924 - May 3, 2010) was a German-American engineer noted for his work in the U.S. manned spaceflight program. An employee of McDonnell Aircraft and later North American Aviation, he was in charge of the spacecraft close-out crews at the launch pads for the entire Mercury a...
Bosscha, LAPAN to build meteorite watchdog Bosscha Observatory and National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) are mulling a plan to install an early warning station in Biak, West Papua, to detect meteorites and scraps of satellites falling to Earth. Bandung-based Bosscha director Hak...
A Dover woman's dying wish that her ashes should be sent into space looks set to be fulfilled. Audrey Bates, who died in March 2009, aged 75, was fascinated with the US moon landings of the 1960s. Her husband, Geoff, 81, has paid for her remains to be launched into space from New Mexico in the US on 1 May. [u...
The eighth Celestis Memorial Spaceflight - The Discovery Flight - will launch on April 25, 2009 from Spaceport America in New Mexico. Launch services will be provided by UP Aerospace aboard a SpaceLoft XL rocket. The Discovery Flight - the second Celestis Earth Rise mission - is dedicated to the spi...
Arianespace signs contract with HUGHES to launch Jupiter North American satellite operator and services provider, Hughes, has engaged Arianespace to orbit its powerful Ka-Band broadband satellite Jupiter. Arianespace announced today that it has been selected by Hughes Network Systems, LLC...
