Expedition 30 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko, NASA Flight Engineer Don Petit and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers were launched on the Russian aboard their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft at 13:16 UTC (8:16 a.m. EST) Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Read More »Take a Virtual Sleigh Ride Over the Real Landscapes of Mars
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab put together this great video of real landscapes on Mars with imagery from the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter accompanied by some holiday music.
Read More »Comet Lovejoy Survives Brush with the Sun
After grazing the Sun’s corona at a distance of 120,000 km from the Sun’s surface Comet Lovejoy emerged on the other side of the Sun still intact. Images supplied by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Read More »University of Western Ontario Astronomers Capture Bright Fireball on Video
Just after 6:00 pm last Monday, a bright fireball shot across the sky, visible from Hamilton to Peterborough. A system of video cameras set up by astronomers captured video of the event which may make it possible to recover meteorite fragments.
Read More »NASA's Kepler's Telescope Finds First Planet Found in Habitable Zone of a Sun-Like Star
NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count.
Read More »Mars Science Laboratory Launched for its Mission on Mars
At 10:02 a.m. Eastern time on a beautiful fall day a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), otherwise known as the Mars Curiosity rover, was launched on its nine month journey to Mars. On board is a Canadian contribution in the form of the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument.
Read More »Shenzhou-8 and Tiangong-1 Successfully Rendezvous and Dock
For the first China has docked two of its spacecraft the Shenzhou-8 and Tiangong-1 space lab module.
Read More »China Launches Shenzhou-8
China has launched the Shenzhou-8 which will attempt to rendezvous and dock with the Tiangong-1 space station module. This is China’s first attempt at a docking and rendezvous between its spacecraft.
Read More »NEEMO 15 Mission into Day 5 – Video Recaps
NASA’s NEEMO 15 mission with Canadian astronaut David Saint- Jacques onboard is into mission day 5. Today there will be no EVA’s as the crew Crew will do behavioural science projects from inside Aquarius.
Read More »German Satellite ROSAT will Reenter Atmosphere this Weekend
According to the German Aerospace Center the ROSAT satellite will reenter the Earth’s atmosphere between 2 pm EDT today and 2 pm tomorrow afternoon and there is the possibility parts of the satellite could hit somewhere in Canada.
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