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Sunspot 1302 Updates

By Staff Writers on September 27, 2011

Source NASA: A strong-to-severe (Kp=8) geomagnetic storm is in progress following the impact of a coronal mass ejection impact of a coronal... Read more →

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SpaceX Developing Reusable Launcher

By Andrea Gini on September 26, 2011

  Draft Environmental Assessment for Issuing an Experimental Permit to SpaceX for Operation of the Grasshopper Vehicle at the McGregor... Read more →

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Sunspot 1302 Continues to Turn Toward Earth

By Andrea Gini on September 26, 2011

Source NASA: Behemoth sunspot 1302 unleashed another strong flare on Saturday morning--an X1.9-category blast at 5:40 am EDT. NASA's Solar... Read more →

Meteorites

October Meteor Shower, Potential Danger to Spacecraft

By Andrea Gini on September 26, 2011

Perseid meteor shower on August 13, 2011, captured by NASA astronaut Ron Garan from the ISS (Credits: NASA/Ron Garan). The annuyal Draconid... Read more →

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Video: X-Class Flare With Coronal Mass Ejection

By Andrea Gini on September 26, 2011

The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X-Class flare and related coronal mass ejection on September 7th into September 8th.  The hot plasma can... Read more →

Press Releases

NASA Completes Orion Spacecraft Parachute Testing In Arizona

By Andrea Gini on September 25, 2011

Test of the Orion parachute recovery system, derived from the system NASA used to recover the Apollo spacecraft (Credits: U.S.... Read more →