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The Planetary Society Blog
Archive
Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Sep. 26, 2008 | 14:31 PDT | 21:31 UTC
Carnival of Space #72
Carnival of Space #72 is live at Twisted Physics. Check it out!
Doug has more reports to send from the last day of Europlanet, but now has to travel home, so there'll be a bit of a delay before the last entries are posted.... More»
Sep. 25, 2008 | 16:39 PDT | 23:39 UTC
Doug Ellison at Europlanet 2008: Monitoring Venus with the VMC
Whilst out at the red planet, the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) has recently turned the Mars Express Visual Monitoring Camera back on, at Venus, another VMC -- this time the acronym stands for Venus Monitoring Camera -- has been keeping... More»
Sep. 25, 2008 | 09:07 PDT | 16:07 UTC
Doug Ellison at Europlanet 2008: Small update for a small asteroid
All this week, Doug Ellison will be filing reports from the third European Planetary Science Congress, also known as Europlanet, taking place in Münster, Germany. Doug is the dictator-for-life of the online forum unmannedspaceflight.com. ... More»
Sep. 24, 2008 | 17:13 PDT | Sep. 25 00:13 UTC
Doug Ellison at Europlanet 2008: To reach out, let people in
All this week, Doug Ellison will be filing reports from the third European Planetary Science Congress, also known as Europlanet, taking place in Münster, Germany. Doug is the dictator-for-life of the online forum unmannedspaceflight.com. ... More»
Sep. 24, 2008 | 15:50 PDT | 22:50 UTC
An update on Ulysses: Recovery from sun sensor anomaly
I posted on Monday about an anomaly on Ulysses possibly endangering the mission. In fact, by then Ulysses had already recovered, although that information wasn't yet available on the status reports page from which I got Nigel Angold's message to... More»
Sep. 24, 2008 | 09:24 PDT | 16:24 UTC
Some basic information on the upcoming Shenzhou 7 launch
Tomorrow China will be launching Shenzhou 7 with three astronauts aboard, one of whom will perform the first Chinese extravehicular activity (EVA, or "space walk"). Here's some basic information on launch plans, but first, the most important piece:... More»
Sep. 23, 2008 | 14:42 PDT | 21:42 UTC
Doug Ellison at Europlanet 2008: To be bold, be small (part 2)
All this week, Doug Ellison will be filing reports from the third European Planetary Science Congress, also known as Europlanet, taking place in Münster, Germany. Doug is the dictator-for-life of the online forum unmannedspaceflight.com. ... More»
Sep. 23, 2008 | 14:01 PDT | 21:01 UTC
Doug Ellison at Europlanet 2008: To be bold, be small (part 1)
All this week, Doug Ellison will be filing reports from the third European Planetary Science Congress, also known as Europlanet, taking place in Münster, Germany. Doug is the dictator-for-life of the online forum unmannedspaceflight.com. ... More»
Sep. 23, 2008 | 13:55 PDT | 20:55 UTC
Website problems
I am very sorry about the problems many of you have been having accessing our website over the last few days, and I'm also sorry to Doug, who's working his tail off sending reports from the European Planetary Science Congress. They will all get... More»
Sep. 22, 2008 | 12:18 PDT | 19:18 UTC
Ulysses is in peril
The Ulysses mission is nearing its end, as steadily declining available power is threatening the spacecraft's ability to keep its fuel from freezing. A creative plan to bleed fuel to keep it from freezing has prolonged the spacecraft's life. Now,... More»
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