"Teej" is the fasting festival for women. It takes place in August or early September. The festival is a three-day long celebration that combines sumptuous feasts as well as rigid fasting. Through this religious fasting, hindu women pray for marital bliss, well being of their spouse an...
NASA TV's This Week @NASA, Week Ending Sept. 14 + View NowDevon Island Field Test of NASA's K10 Rovers + View VodcastDesert RATS Prepare for the Moon + View Vodcast
About 100 astronauts and cosmonauts are touching down in Scotland today. The 20th annual Planetary Congress takes place in Edinburgh this week, and features dozens of experts from across the world. The week-long gathering, which is organised by the Association of Space Explorers, brings togeth...
Michel Courtois is a man with a mission. One of the continent's leading experts on space exploration, he is the individual charged with the awesome responsibility of co-ordinating Europe's campaign to put itself back on the galactic map. The scale of the challenge facing him doesn't stop there. Th...
Title: Characterisation of the near-Earth Asteroid 2002 NY40 Authors: Lewis C. Roberts, Jr., Doyle T. Hall, John V. Lambert, John L. Africano2, Keith T. Knox, Jacob K. Barros, Kris M. Hamada, Dennis Liang, Paul F. Sydney In August 2002, the near-Earth asteroid 2002 NY40, made its closest approach...
Typhoon Nari is forecast to make landfall in South Korea in about 48 hours. probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% probability for TS is 65% Okinawa (26.3 N, 127.8 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 90% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 100% within 12 hours
New Mexico Fireball: On Sept 13th at approximately 3 o'clock in the morning MDT, an extremely bright fireball streaked over New Mexico. New Mexico Fireball Click to Play | View Details "There was a large fireball over New Mexico this morning at 3:20 am MDT. It literally turned night into day&qu...
NASA Senior Scientist Will Discuss Taking a Hit: Asteroid Impacts & Evolution October 03, 2007 7 to 8:30 p.m. As part of the ninth annual Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, Astronomer David Morrison, of NASAs Ames Research Centre, will present Taking a Hit: Asteroid Impacts & Evolu...
South Korea plans to place a satellite into orbit next year from its own space centre the first time the country launches a rocket into space from its territory, an official said Friday. Since 1992, South Korea has launched 11 satellites, mostly for space and ocean observation and communication, bu...
A Perth astronomer says a spectacular light show in the sky last night was a meteor.
Sightings were made as far south as Albany and inland through the Wheat Belt.
Peter Birch, from Astronomy West, estimates the meteor was about the size of a basketball.
"It's come in across the state of W...
Tropical Storm Nari is forecast to make landfall in Okinawa (26.3 N, 127.8 E) in about 30 hours. probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% probability for TS is 75%
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced the date of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 11 (H-IIA F11) with the Engineering Test Satellite VIII "Kiku No. 8" (ETS-VIII) onboard, which was approved by the Space Activities Commission (SAC).
Scheduled date of launch:
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The H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 5 (H-IIA F5) with the IGS (Information Gathering Satellites) onboard was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on March 28, 2003 (JST). The launch vehicle flew smoothly, and the IGS separation was confirmed. JAXA - The H-IIA Launch Vehicle No.5 Click to Play | View...
The H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 7 (H-IIA F7) with the Multi-functional Transport Satellite-1 Replacement (MTSAT-1R)"HIMAWARI No.6" onboard was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center at 6:25 p.m. on February 26, 2005 (JST). The H-IIA Launch Vehicle No.7 Click to Play | Vie...
The launch of the Multi-functional Transport Satellite-2 (MTSAT-2), had been scheduled for a February 15 (Wed), 2006 launch. The reschedule was due to the launch delay of the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "Daichi" by the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 8.
A new launch date and time is February 18 (S...
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