Malaysia's second astronaut, Major (Dr) Faiz Khaleed, 29, will be sharing his desire, experience and advice to other astronaut hopefuls through short film clips which were created specially in conjunction with the airing of the popular series The Universe (Astro Channel 555). These clips, whic...
Guinness plans to give punters a real taste of the black stuff with three once-in-a-lifetime experiences to mark its 250 years in business. The brewery is sending someone into space and another to the depths of the ocean to commemorate its celebrations in style. It has also lined up an exclusive gig w...
North Korea has test-fired four short-range missiles, South Korea's Yonhap news agency has reported. The agency quoted defence officials as saying the fourth was launched at around 1220GMT from Sinsang-ni. Three surface-to-ship missiles had earlier been fired - two near the port of Wonsan and o...
Orbital elements: 2009 LU2 Earth MOID = 0.0151 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 329.24231 (2000.0) P Q n 0.57397641 Peri. 248.00927 +0.83768812 +0.53991539 a 1.4339699 Node 79.22482 -0.46509719 +0.78420165 e 0.3813843 Incl. 4.80453 -0.28629219 +0.30580899 P 1.72 H 23.4 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications, today announced that it has been chosen by Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. to build SIRIUS FM-5, a powerful new geostationary satellite for use in its satellite radio service.
"Since its introduction only a fe...
Quiet SunClick to Play | View Details STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft watched closely as a solar prominence rose up and spun-off above the Sun over a three-hour period (June 14, 2009). As observed in the 304 Angstrom wavelength of extreme UV light, the gases in a prominence became unstable and broke away f...
Title: No Neutron Star Companion To The Lowest Mass SDSS White Dwarf Authors: Marcel Agueros (Columbia U), Craig Heinke (U of Alberta), Fernando Camilo (Columbia U), Mukremin Kilic (CfA), Scott Anderson (U of Washington), Paulo Freire (Arecibo Obs), Scot Kleinman (Gemini Obs), James Liebert (S...
IMVU is a graphical instant messaging client (3D chat) with more than 7 million users.[1] Currently, it is in public beta, and has been available since 2004-09-18.[2] It is developed by IMVU, Inc., founded by Will Harvey, a video game developer and founder of There. According to the IMVU site, the 3D...
Japan a low-key player in space race Japan has launched Earth observation, communications and weather satellites as well as other space vehicles since it began its space program in the late 1960s. The program initially fell under the authority of the National Space Development Agency but is now un...
Most of the planetary action in June is in the early morning hours, and because sunrise comes early, few people will see Venus, Mars, and Mercury this month. The focus then goes to objects visible after sunset while people linger in the warm outdoors. For the Northern Hemisphere, summer officially b...
An aging weather satellite crucial to accurate predictions on the intensity and path of hurricanes could fail at any moment and plans to launch a replacement have been pushed back seven years to 2016. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's chief said the failure of the QuikScat sat...
On June 11, Dr. Frank Low, a pioneer of infrared astronomy, died after a long illness in Tucson, AZ. Until the mid-60s, infrared astronomy was virtually impossible to conduct on Earth due to the absorption of infrared radiation (IR) waves by water vapour molecules in lower atmosphere. [url=http:...
NASA Selects Nine New Astronauts for Future Space Exploration After reviewing more than 3,500 applications, NASA has selected nine people for the 2009 astronaut candidate class. Read more
Orbital elements: 2009 MN8 Earth MOID = 0.0267 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 5.15596 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29792846 Peri. 325.12641 -0.37263188 +0.92605400 a 2.2202134 Node 282.93085 -0.83685508 -0.36316600 e 0.5408227 Incl. 3.51441 -0.40102251 -0.10263745 P 3.31 H 22.8 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
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