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Proposed House Budget Increases NASA Funding for SLS and Commercial Crew, Leaves Science Untouched
Posted by Casey Dreier on 2013/03/04 07:54 CST
The U.S. House of Representatives unveiled their new funding bill for the remainder of the 2013 fiscal year, which funds NASA at 2012 levels with the exception of its SLS and Commercial Crew programs.
Very brief Curiosity update, sol 205: Memory anomaly and a swap to the "B-side"
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/03/04 06:48 CST | 2 comments
Over the last few days the mission has been working its way through its first major (not life-threatening, just really inconvenient) anomaly: a memory problem in its main computer.
Posted by Bill Dunford on 2013/03/04 12:25 CST | 2 comments
Look past the rings, and Saturn is even stranger--and more breathtaking.
Dragon overcomes issues, arrives at Station
Posted by Jason Davis on 2013/03/04 09:16 CST | 2 comments
SpaceX's Dragon capsule has arrived at the International Space Station following a wild Friday in which the capsule's thrusters experienced an issue.
Atacama Diary for March 2, 2013--ALMA Explained
Posted by Mat Kaplan on 2013/03/02 07:00 CST
The second in a series of audio blogs chronicling my trip to the driest spot on Earth, Chile's Atacama desert, to see the inauguration of the ALMA Observatory. Al Wootten and Alison Peck tell the story of ALMA.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/03/01 06:43 CST | 2 comments
Last week I trawled the archives to find all of Galileo's images of asteroid Ida; this week, I turned to Gaspra.
Dragon reaches orbit, but experiences propellant valve issue
Posted by Jason Davis on 2013/03/01 11:41 CST | 1 comments
SpaceX's CRS-2 mission began successfully, but hit a snag when a thruster propellant valve failed to work properly.
Dawn journal: Revisiting orbital mechanics
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2013/03/01 09:02 CST | 1 comments
Now that Dawn has changed its speed by nearly eight kilometers per second, Marc Rayman revisits the concept of orbital velocity.
Planetary Society Weekly Hangout: Studying Asteroids from Earth with Andy Rivkin
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/02/28 01:25 CST | 5 comments
Emily Lakdawalla's guest this week was Applied Physics Laboratory asteroid astronomer Andy Rivkin. We talked about the menagerie of rocks in the asteroid belt, how many of them travel in pairs and triples, how some of them are surprisingly wet, and how much you can learn about asteroids using Earth-based telescopes.
Posted by Ted Stryk on 2013/02/28 12:59 CST | 1 comments
Presenting a newly-processed version of Voyager 2's best images of Uranus' moon Umbriel.
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