Entries from Royal Observatory, Greenwich tagged with 'NASA'
ISS sightings for London, 24 April - 6 May
According to NASA the following sightings of the International Space Station (ISS) are possible from London, UK between Saturday 24 April and Thursday 6 May 2010: Local date/time Duration (mins) Max elevation (deg) Approach (deg-dir) Departure (deg-dir) Sat Apr 24/03:08...
Posted by Harvey Edser (Web Editor) on April 23, 2010 11:56 AM
Space shuttle Endeavour docks with ISS
NASA's space shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station (ISS) at 23:06 CST on Tuesday 9 February, towards the end of day 2 of mission STS-130. Endeavour's primary payload on this mission consists of a third connecting module for...
Posted by Harvey Edser (Web Editor) on February 11, 2010 9:39 AM
Solar Dynamics Observatory launch
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is currently scheduled for launch tomorrow (10 February 2010) from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. NB launch actually took place on Thursday 11 February, 10:23 EST (15:23 GMT).SDO is a powerful solar observatory...
Posted by Harvey Edser (Web Editor) on February 9, 2010 3:17 PM
NASA extends Cassini-Huygens mission
NASA announced on 3 February that it is extending the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons to 2017, with a budget of $60 million per year.This is the second extension to the mission which was originally launched...
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Posted by Harvey Edser (Web Editor) on February 7, 2010 10:24 AM
Brighter, redder Pluto
On Friday (5 Feb 2010) NASA released the most detailed images yet taken of Pluto. The photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) show the dwarf planet's icy, mottled surface undergoing seasonal changes - the surface has become much redder...
Posted by Harvey Edser (Web Editor) on February 6, 2010 8:25 AM
NASA crash spacecraft into Moon to find water
Today (9 October 2009) two unmanned NASA spacecraft will impact the Cabeus crater in the lunar South Pole, in the final stage of the LCROSS mission (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite). The first spacecraft, the 2200kg Centaur rocket stage,...
Posted by Harvey Edser (Web Editor) on October 9, 2009 8:24 AM
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