Russia Puts Telecoms Satellite Into Orbit
Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 16, 2015 -
Russia's Express-AM8 communications satellite, which lifted off on Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on a Proton-M space rocket, separated from the DM-03 booster and was put into orbit.
"Express-AM8 was delivered into the proper orbit, and later will be gradually transferred to the calculated point of standing on the geostationary," a spokesman for the Russian Federal Spa ...
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Solar Observatory discovers its 3,000th comet
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 16, 2015 -
On Sept. 13, 2015, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - a joint project of the European Space Agency and NASA - discovered its 3,000th comet, cementing its standing as the greatest comet finder of all time. Prior to the 1995 launch of the observatory, commonly known as SOHO, only a dozen or so comets had ever even been discovered from space, while some 900 had been discovered from the ground ...
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Under Saturnian moon's icy crust lies a 'global' ocean
Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 16, 2015 -
Cornell University researchers have learned that a global ocean lies beneath the moon's thick icy crust by measuring with precision the tiny wobbles of Saturn's moon Enceladus - whose cosmic quavers are detectable only in high-resolution images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Cornell planetary scientists have analyzed more than seven years worth of Enceladus images taken by the spacecr ...
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NASA's SDO catches a double photobomb
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 16, 2015 -
On Sept. 13, 2015, as NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, kept up its constant watch on the sun, its view was photobombed not once, but twice. Just as the moon came into SDO's field of view on a path to cross the sun, Earth entered the picture, blocking SDO's view completely. When SDO's view of the sun emerged from Earth's shadow, the moon was just completing its journey across the sun's ...
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US astronaut misses fresh air halfway through year-long mission
Washington (AFP) Sept 14, 2015 -
Halfway into a year in space - the longest ever attempted at the International Space Station - American astronaut Scott Kelly said Monday he misses fresh air but is adapting well.
Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko agreed to double the length of a typical astronaut's mission at the ISS in order to help the world's space agencies study how long-term space travel affects the human ...
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Scientists conduct most precise test of light speed
Berlin (UPI) Sep 15, 2015 -
The speed of light is a constant. A new test - the most precise test of a photon's speed - confirms it.
The results of the test support the concept of Lorentz symmetry, the idea that the laws of physics are constant in all directions.
Researchers from the University of Western Australia and Humboldt University of Berlin measured the spatial consistency of the speed of light usi ...
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to launch from Cape Canaveral this decade
Miami (AFP) Sept 15, 2015 -
The commercial space race got a little more crowded Tuesday when the aerospace company Blue Origin, headed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, said it will begin launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, later this decade.
After losing a bid in 2013 to lease a historic launch pad - where US moon missions lifted off in the 1960s and 1970s - to rival SpaceX, Blue Origin announced it would make i ...
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