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Oct. 21, 2008 | 17:39 PDT | Oct. 22 00:39 UTC
Chandrayaan-1 live broadcast is underway
Here's the link to the live broadcast.
I've heard such reassuring and familiar things as "range ready!" The sound doesn't always seem to work though. The chairman of ISRO is talking now, but I'm not hearing anything. Still, video alone is good... More»
Oct. 20, 2008 | 14:03 PDT | 21:03 UTC
Watch the Chandrayaan-1 launch live on the Internet!
India's space agency, ISRO, has announced that they will be hosting a live webcast of the launch of Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, beginning on October 22 at 05:50 Indian Standard Time, which is 00:20 UTC, or October 21 at 17:20 my time. (Yes, India... More»
Oct. 20, 2008 | 13:38 PDT | 20:38 UTC
Carnival of Space #75
The Big Tent Edition of the Carnival of Space is live over at Lounge of the Lab Lemming, so go visit the sideshows.
And while I'm posting links, here's some new stuff on this website:
Amir Alexander wrote last week about the signing of the NASA... More»
Oct. 17, 2008 | 15:24 PDT | 22:24 UTC
Hubble update: Not returning to normal today after all
I missed today's press briefing on Hubble, but there's enough detail in the report posted to the NASA website for a status update:Hubble resumed the science timeline at Noon ET on Thursday, October 16. The first activities out of that on-board... More»
Oct. 17, 2008 | 10:38 PDT | 17:38 UTC
New images from MESSENGER's Mercury flyby
The MESSENGER team has been releasing images daily since their October 6 flyby, and I've just been too busy to post any. I have, however, been keeping up with where the images plot on my map of Mercury. Finally, yesterday, they released one image... More»
Oct. 17, 2008 | 09:54 PDT | 16:54 UTC
Getting close to the launch of Chandrayaan-1!
Chandrayaan-1 is due to launch on October 22 at 00:58 UTC (that's October 21 at 17:58 Pacific time; click here for a table of other cities). I am deeply grateful to the British Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) for actually posting... More»
Oct. 16, 2008 | 14:51 PDT | 21:51 UTC
Hubble to resume normal science operations Friday morning
I've had so many things to write about lately that I've given short shrift to the drama on the Hubble Space Telescope. In quick summary, on September 27 -- just two weeks before the final Hubble Servicing Mission was due to launch -- a critical... More»
Oct. 16, 2008 | 13:08 PDT | 20:08 UTC
A shift in orbit for Mars Odyssey
I'm a little late getting to this piece of news, but it's still interesting. Last week, the Mars Odyssey team announced that their mission -- the oldest spacecraft still operating at Mars, having been there since 2001 -- is being extended another... More»
Oct. 16, 2008 | 11:13 PDT | 18:13 UTC
Phobos: New gravity data and an update on the Phobos-Grunt landing site
ESA issued a press release today announcing that Mars' moon Phobos is a rubble pile because it has an anomalously low density, measured during a recent flyby by Mars Express. As far as I can tell from a bit of Googling, both the fact that it's... More»
Oct. 15, 2008 | 13:52 PDT | 20:52 UTC
DPS meeting: Sunday: Lakes on Titan
I'll be writing quite a bit about the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society this week; see this post for an introduction.
This time around DPS features three separate oral sessions on... More»
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