American Meteor Society confirms four fireball sightings
Washington (UPI) Sep 26, 2014 -
The American Meteor Society confirms four separate fireball events, all within 90 minutes, were witnessed in the Midwest, Southeast, and along the Eastern Seaboard.
A fireball is very bright meteor - brighter than the planet Venus, as Mike Hankey, AMS operations manager, recently explained to Newsweek. As Hankey put it, sky-gazers would see "a really bright light in the sky that starts ...
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Male-led teams more likely to get Hubble Telescope time
Washington (UPI) Sep 26, 2014 -
A new study suggests a there's a gender bias in the approval process for research teams looking to use the Hubble Telescope. Researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the organization that runs the Hubble Space Telescope program, found that male-led proposals are more likely to be approved and granted time with the telescopes than female-led research projects.
Only a ...
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Space agency sets Nov 12 date for comet landing
Paris (AFP) Sept 26, 2014 -
Europe's Rosetta spacecraft will attempt on November 12 to land a robot lab on a comet hurtling through deep space in a first for humankind, a statement said Friday.
Ten days after unveiling the preferred landing spot on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency (ESA) has now set a firm date for the high-stakes operation more than 450 million kilometres (280 miles) from Eart ...
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Yelena Serova becomes first Russian woman aboard space station
Washington (UPI) Sep 26, 2014 -
The International Space Station welcomed its first female cosmonaut yesterday. Russian Yelena Serova arrived along with two colleagues after a six-hour trip aboard Russia's Soyuz spacecraft. After blasting off from Kazakistan, Serova became just the fourth Russian woman in space.
Serova was joined by two space station veterans, NASA's Barry Wilmore and the Russian cosmonaut Alexander Sa ...
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Russia launches Proton-M rocket after accident
Moscow (AFP) Sep 28, 2014 -
Russia on Sunday successfully launched a Proton-M rocket carrying a satellite into orbit in the first such launch since one of the rockets fell back to Earth soon after liftoff in May.
The Proton-M rocket lifted off on schedule from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:23 am Moscow time (2023 GMT Saturday), carrying a Russian communications satellite, Russia's space agency said in a ...
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New test equipment due for Minuteman III guidance system
Ogden, Utah (UPI) Sep 24, 2014 -
Equipment that tests the guidance system of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile is to be updated by Boeing.
Boeing said the work will be conducted on the guidance data acquisition system, or GDAS, under a U.S. Air Force contract worth $4.9 million.
"As national programs unfold that are critical to affordably sustaining and modernizing Minuteman III until 2030 and b ...
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U.S. aims to supply Canada with torpedo upgrade kits
Washington (UPI) Sep 25, 2014 -
Canada is seeking advanced technology kits to upgrade MK-48 torpedoes used on its Victoria-class submarines, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency says.
The 12 MK-48 Mod 7 Advanced Technology Torpedo Kits, together with associated equipment parts, would be provided under the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program and carry a value of $41 million.
The agency, in its required n ...
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