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Tuesday, 15 September 2009 |
The Chinese space agency China National Space Administration (CNSA) began construction of its fourth space center on Monday, September 14, 2009. The Wenchang Satellite Launch Center is expected to greatly expand China's ability to launch heavier payloads into space.
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Monday, 14 September 2009 |
A University of Washington study has found the bacterium Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in marine water and beach sand on the coast of Washington and California—the first time the superbug has ever been discovered on beaches.
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Sunday, 13 September 2009 |
The collision site for the NASA spacecraft Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) has been selected by a team of lunar scientists. The lunar crater selected for the impact is called Cabeus A.
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Sunday, 13 September 2009 |
NASA announced on September 11, 2009, that its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission is being dedicated to the memory of legendary newscaster Walter Cronkite.
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Saturday, 12 September 2009 |
The first full-scale, complete two-minute test firing of the first-stage motor for the new Ares 1 rocket was performed on Thursday, September 10, 2009. The successful test firing will provide important data to validate the ability of the Ares 1 to lift the Orion capsule into space as part of the new Constellation Program.
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Friday, 11 September 2009 |
NASA announced that the recently repaired and serviced Hubble Space Telescope is back to taking amazing pictures of the universe. Called "the people's telescope," Hubble is "significantly more powerful than ever."
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Thursday, 10 September 2009 |
The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope is being developed on a site at Boolardy in Western Australia. The telescope project hopes to bring the much larger SKA project to Australia, which is expected to provide many answers about the origins and evolution of the Universe.
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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 |
There is still time to see both the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station fly together over your local night sky on Wednesday, September 9, 2009; that is, if they are in orbits that pass over your locale.
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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 |
The first-ever phonon laser—a device that uses phonons, or the smallest discrete (quantized) unit of vibrational energy—has been created by German and U.S. scientists. The phonon laser uses amplified sound instead of light.
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Tuesday, 08 September 2009 |
After years of conspiracy theories trying to convince people that the U.S. government faked the Moon landings, two Bangladeshi newspapers confirm indirectly that, indeed, the United States did land on the Moon in July 1969.
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Monday, 07 September 2009 |
The NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been shut down for a few weeks because of a glitch in its computer system, which will temporarily end its ability to take stunning high-resolution images of the Martian surface.
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