Archives for October 2008
Hubble side B given the go-ahead
Published on 15 Oct 2008 at 2:23 pm.
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Filed under space telescopes.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been largely out of commission for a couple of weeks now after a failure of its data handling unit. That has kept the HST from sending back most forms of science data. We did not lose contact with the spacecraft, so the craft was not out control or […]
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CoS 74
Published on 9 Oct 2008 at 11:41 pm.
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The latest Carnival of Space is up, over at Kentucky Space.
I’ve been busy with publication deadlines, grading exams, etc, so I have not had time to do much blogging this week. But, you can catch up on all sorts of interesting space related blogs over at the carnival.
-Astroprof
IBEX
Published on 3 Oct 2008 at 3:02 pm.
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Filed under solar system, space exploration.
In biology, an ibex is a type of wild goat. But, that is not what I am writing about here. Rather, I am writing about NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Mission, set to launch in just over two weeks, on October 19 by a Pegasus rocket. IBEX is the latest […]
CoS #73
Published on 2 Oct 2008 at 3:39 pm.
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The 73rd Carnival of Space is hosted this week over at Alice’s Astro Info blog. The theme of the carnival is a Happy Birthday tribute to NASA, though the collected blog entries are not all about NASA. Rather, they range from in topics all the way from geology to the ends of the universe. So, […]
NASA Logos
Published on 1 Oct 2008 at 4:04 pm.
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On July 29, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law. That piece of legislation dissolved the old National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and transferred the assets of that agency, along with those of several Army facilities, to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA). But, […]
