Blast from the past: The Galileo Messenger

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/01/20 10:42 CST

From 1981 to 1997, the Galileo mission published an approximately quarterly newsletter called the Galileo Messenger. It eventually ran to 45 issues, until the end of the Prime Mission. The first 20 were published before Galileo ever got off the ground. That period is the subject of this post.

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Watch this week's Google+ Space Hangout

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/01/19 03:12 CST

This week's lineup included me as well as Nancy Atkinson, Pamela Gay, Nicole Gugliucci, Phil Plait, Alan Boyle, and Jon Voisey. It's a largely astronomical crowd so most of the conversation concerned dark matter and boiling exoplanets and imaging the black hole at the center of our galaxy.

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Weekly Google+ Hangout Starting Shortly

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/01/19 10:50 CST

Weekly Google+ Hangout Starting Shortly

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The Dawn spacecraft, modeled in an unlikely medium

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/01/17 02:04 CST | 3 comments

The Dawn spacecraft, modeled in an unlikely medium

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Phobos-Grunt is no more

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/01/16 02:27 CST

Phobos-Grunt is no more

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News brief: Phobos-Grunt has fallen to ground

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/01/15 11:21 CST

The Russian military is stating that at 17:45 UT, Phobos-Grunt fell into the Pacific Ocean.

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