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Dawn Spacecraft's Framing Camera Provides New Insights of Giant Asteroid Vesta

Tantalized by images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based data, scientists thought the giant asteroid Vesta deserved a closer look. They got a chance to do that in 2011 and 2012, when NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbited the giant asteroid, and they were able to check earlier conclusions.

30 Sep 2013

UCR to Conduct MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field Survey of Galaxies

Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside have received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct a very large new survey of galaxies using a new instrument — MOSFIRE — on the Keck I telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawai`i’s Big Island.

17 Sep 2013

CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array to Celebrate 25 Years

CSIRO will celebrate the anniversary with a public Open Day at the telescope site on 1 September, then a formal ceremony and a scientific meeting.

27 Aug 2013

ATK Ships Primary Mirror Backplane Support Structure for James Webb Space Telescope

ATK has shipped the primary mirror backplane support structure (PMBSS) for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to Marshall Space Flight Center, completing an important milestone for the most powerful space telescope ever to be built.

26 Aug 2013

NASA's Spitzer Telescope Commemorates a Decade of Operation in Space

Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency's four Great Observatories continues to illuminate the dark side of the cosmos with its infrared eyes.

26 Aug 2013

Collage Image of Earth Waving at Saturn Released

People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA's Cassini mission on July 19 -- the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back toward Earth to take our picture. The mission has assembled a collage from those images.

22 Aug 2013

ICRAR in Perth Receives Extended Funding for Square Kilometre Array Astronomy

The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), based in Perth, Western Australia has been extended for another five years thanks to a $26M investment announced by WA Premier Colin Barnett today.

17 Aug 2013

HoodTech's System Offers 2 Independently Operated, 4-Axis Gyro-Stabilized Imaging Systems on a Single Aircraft

HoodTech Vision, leading manufacturer of low size, weight, and power (low SWaP) stabilized imaging systems for small manned and unmanned systems, announces the new capability to provide simultaneous, independent operation of two stabilized imaging systems on a single aircraft.

From Hood Tech Corporation Vision, Inc. 13 Aug 2013

Russian Cosmonauts to Remove Space Laser Communications System During Spacewalk

NASA Television will provide live coverage as two Russian cosmonauts venture outside the International Space Station on spacewalks Friday, Aug. 16, and Thursday, Aug. 22.

6 Aug 2013

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Captures First On-Sky Image with Sinistro Camera

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT), with first lights at nine new 1-meter telescopes since April of 2012, achieved another critical milestone by capturing the first on-sky image with a production Sinistro camera. In development for over six years, the camera is arguably more important than the telescopes that will use them. “A telescope is really nothing more than a large camera lens,” explained Joe Tufts, instrumentation scientist on the Sinistro project. “A large, precise, stable, and very expensive camera lens.”

2 Aug 2013

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