Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Nasa

  • WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a 3-day NASA Social for 25 of its social media followers Aug. 3-5 at the agencys Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.
  • (NASA)
  • NASA announced some exciting news yesterday: apparently, the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency that looks after the US's spy satellites, had a couple of Hubble-scale space telescopes lying around. In a warehouse in upstate New York.
  • (DISCOVER)
  • WASHINGTON -- Registration for the second Open Source Summit, hosted by NASA, the U.S. State Department and the Veteran Affairs Innovation Initiative to advance the use of open source software in government, is under way.
  • (NASA)
  • The secretive government agency that flies spy satellites has made a stunning gift to NASA: two exquisite telescopes as big and powerful as the Hubble Space Telescope. They've never left the ground and are in storage in Rochester, N.Y.
  • (Washington Post)
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  • (Slate)
  • The bungling worker severed a fibre-optic cable, preventing scientists from streaming live footage to the NASA website from one of the worlds best vantage points, in the Northern Territory.
  • (The Australian)
  • While stargazers in Ireland will have to wait until sunrise tomorrow morning on 6 June to catch a glimpse of the transit of Venus, those on the east coast of North America will be able to witness the event at sunset this evening.
  • (Silicon Republic)
  • Hubble In Orbit The spruced-up telescope seen just after its final servicing mission in May 2009. NASA just got twin Hubble-quality telescopes free from a spy agency. NASA It almost sounds too good to be true.
  • (Popular Science)

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