Tagged: NASA
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SpaceX launches Dragon spacecraft to re-supply International Space Station News
08.10.2012 The private rocket and spacecraft owned by Elon Musk’s company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is headed for the International Space Station (ISS) after blasting off... -
NASA’s Curiosity rover checks in on Mars using Foursquare News
04.10.2012 US space agency NASA’s Curiosity rover has checked into a first: Mars. The car-sized device that landed on the red planet last month to help conduct experiments ‘checked in’ to... -
How planet earth sounds from space – NASA recording News
02.10.2012 We know what planet Earth looks like from space, but can you hear it from space even though sound cannot travel through a vacuum? NASA has just released a rather eerie,... -
Curiosity rover finds ancient streambed on Mars - NASA News
28.09.2012 US space agency NASA’s Curiosity rover mission on Mars has found evidence a stream once ran across the area on the planet where the rover is driving, NASA said. -
Hubble space telescope captures deepest-ever view of the universe News
26.09.2012 Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble space telescope are claiming to have captured the farthest-ever view of a small area of night sky in a new photo that reveals about 5,500...Categories: Science -
Have astronomers spied the most distant galaxy ever? News
21.09.2012 Scientists using NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have captured starlight from a galaxy that could be the most distant one ever seen, at 13.2bn light years away and... -
Neil Armstrong memorial service to be streamed live on 13 September News
06.09.2012 A public memorial service to honour the life and career of the late astronaut Neil Armstrong will be taking place at the Washington National Cathedral on 13 September and NASA...Categories: Science, Engineering -
NASA competition invites students to name an asteroid (video) News
05.09.2012 The sky really is the limit in a new competition by US space agency NASA that invites students from Ireland and around the world to name an asteroid from which an upcoming NASA... -
Blue moon to grace our skies tonight; next one won’t happen until 2015! News
31.08.2012 It seems to be a fitting celestial tribute to the late astronaut Neil Armstrong, whose memorial service takes place today in Ohio, as there’s going to be a rare phenomenon in... -
Human mission to Mars could happen in ‘not too distant' future, claims NASA (video) News
28.08.2012 This past weekend the world mourned the passing of the astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first human being to set foot on the moon during the eponymous Apollo 11 mission in July... -
Will.i.am song to blast out from Mars tomorrow via Curiosity rover News
27.08.2012 Hip-hop is about to make a foray into space as a new song from the US musician, rapper and songwriter Will.i.am will be broadcast for the first time tomorrow on Mars via NASA’s... -
First man to walk on the moon Neil Armstrong passes away News
26.08.2012 The first man to set foot on the moon Neil Armstrong passed away yesterday at the age of 82. On 21 July 1969 Armstrong put his left foot on the moon’s surface as he stepped out... -
Angry Birds hijack NASA’s Curiosity rover (video) News
24.08.2012 In Red Planet, the latest episode in Angry Birds Space, Rovio’s kamikaze birds shoot off to Mars for an adventure involving the Curiosity rover. Now we know curiosity killed the... -
Curiosity Rover starts driving about the newly named ‘Bradbury Landing’ on Mars News
23.08.2012 The Curiosity Mars Rover has begun experimenting with its wheels and has maneuvered forward, backwards and turned about within a 20 feet radius. The spot where it landed 16 days...Categories: Wireless Communications, Science, Multimedia, Mobility, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Digital Media -
Mars Curiosity Rover unleashes the power of its laser gun – turns a rock into plasma News
20.08.2012 While hardly the Death Star, the Mars Curiosity Rover has achieved for itself the honour of blasting the first rock on any extraterrestrial planet by a laser, NASA has confirmed. -
US President Barack Obama praises NASA’s Curiosity rover team News
14.08.2012 US President Barack Obama has told the flight control team for US space agency NASA's Curiosity Mars rover that Curiosity's landing on Mars advances his goals of improving... -
Weekend news roundup: Curiosity’s software update, Netflix CEO buys Facebook shares, Google Doodle creators News
13.08.2012 In our trawl through some of the technology news from the weekend, NASA is updating software on its Mars Curiosity rover, Netflix’s CEO buys US$1m in Facebook shares, India’s...Categories: Web Design, Virtualisation, Software, Social Media, R&D, Internet, Government, Financial -
Curiosity rover gives us the first 360-degree colour panorama of Gale Crater on Mars News
10.08.2012 NASA’s Curiosity rover is getting into its stride on Mars, as the rover’s imager has sent back its first colour panorama of Gale Crater where it is basing itself for the next...