If you weren't already aware, you should know that there are up to and including three HTC Nexus One smartphones floating above your head right this minute in part of a NASA mission to prove (or disprove) the viability of low-cost space exploration "PhoneSats". Each of these low-cost satellites was aboard the first flight of Orbital Science Corporation's Antares rocket, launched after this rocket took off from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia just two days ago.
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NASA’s trio of Android “PhoneSats” all operational: orbit tests under way
NASA video displays 3 years of Sun images in 3 minutes
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, more commonly known as SDO, has spent the last three years taking pictures of the sun, showing off its steady increase in activity as its latest 11-year cycle nears its peak. As part of the project, NASA has taken some of the images and compiled them into a single 3-minute video, which makes it easy to see the gradual increase in solar activity. You can check out the video after the jump.
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Young students aim to be among first to launch small satellite
Students at St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington, VA are aiming to be a part of a milestone. The school is looking to become the first K-8 school to launch a "CubeSat" satellite into space. The proposed satellite that the students will build would be four inches long in all directions and would weigh around three pounds.
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ESA mashes telescopes for Horsehead Nebula fly-through video
Groundbreaking photography of the Horsehead Nebula has been combined from Hubble along with several telescopes and observatories, giving viewers a fly-through of the huge and beautiful Orion constellation. The new video, shared by the European Space Agency, mashes together imagery of the Nebula captured by Hubble last week with ground-based images and sky surveys, with a mixture of visible, near-infrared, and infrared graphics coming together for a hitherto-unseen virtual journey through space.
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Orbital’s Antares rocket successfully completes its first test launch
Orbital Science Corps. Antares rocket completed its first successful test launch today after seeing a series of complications over the last few days. Orbital attempted to test launch the rocket last Wednesday, however, a data cable located at the upper stage of the rocket detached prematurely. It was then rescheduled over and over due to the high winds present at the launch site. Luckily today, everything was cooperating with the test launch.
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Orbital’s Antares rocket launch rescheduled due to weather conditions
The Antares rocket test launch by Orbital Sciences Corp. has been delayed yet again due to poor weather conditions. The launch has been rescheduled frequently since April 17th due to several complications, including strong winds at NASA's Wallops Island launch site and a minor equipment malfunction. This time, the launch has been rescheduled for tomorrow, April 21st, at 5:00PM. NASA will provide live coverage of the event beginning at 4:30PM through both its website as well as its TV channel.
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Hubble Space Telescope captures new infrared image of Horsehead Nebula
If you've spent any time looking at space pictures, it's likely you've seen an image of the Horsehead Nebula, named such due to its appearance similar to that of a horsehead. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a new image of the nebula, this one in infrared, with its visualization image showing it in dusty detail, the phenomenon appearing to rise like smoke with the top gently falling off to the sides.
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Cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov becomes world’s oldest spacewalker
NASA is live-streaming a spacewalk right now, which involves two cosmonauts going out into the deep, dark space in order to fetch some equipment off the exterior of the International Space Station. One of those men is Flight Engineer Pavel Vinogradov, who is 59 years old and is now the oldest person ever to go out on a spacewalk.
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NASA live-streaming six-hour ISS spacewalk right now
This isn't the first time that NASA has live-streamed a spacewalk, but we certainly don't get treated to them very often. Today, NASA is live streaming a six-hour spacewalk aboard the International Space Station, as two Russian cosmonauts venture their way out into deep, dark space to fix a broken reflector and install weather monitoring equipment on the exterior of the station.
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NASA discovers three Kepler system planets in the habitable zone
NASA's Kepler space telescope has made a new round of discoveries: two planetary systems, both of which are home to a total of three planets within the habitable zone. As such, it is possible that each planet could have a surface temperature capable of liquid water and supporting life. The findings were recently published in the journal Science.
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NASA IRIS spacecraft arrived in California this week
NASA has been working on a lot of projects over the years and one of those projects is the IRIS spacecraft that will be sent into space to study the sun to help scientists learn more about the sun. IRIS stands for Interference Region Imaging Spectrograph and the satellite arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California earlier this week. The spacecraft now begin its final preparations for launch.
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NASA x-ray image shows off ancient supernova in fine detail
Back in May 1006 AD, a bright star appeared in the sky that was observed and written about by astromers across the globe. Now known as SN 1006, this supernova was detected by modern astronomers back in the 1960s using the very first round of x-ray satellites, which produced a faint image. Fast forward a handful of decades, and thanks to NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, we now have a bright, detailed image of this ancient supernova.
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