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November 23, 2009 NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat SatelliteNASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna. |
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November 23, 2009 Spitzer Telescope Observes Baby Brown DwarfNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has contributed to the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf ever observed -- a finding that, if confirmed, may solve an astronomical mystery about how these cosmic misfits are formed. |
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November 23, 2009 Free Spirit: Third Extrication Drive Ends With Wheel StallSpirit experienced a wheel stall with the right-rear wheel during the second step of a two-step drive on Sol 2092 (Saturday, Nov. 21). |
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November 23, 2009 Wise a Bit Closer to the SkyNASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is now perched atop its rocket in preparations for a Dec. 9 liftoff. |
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November 21, 2009 Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter NearsNASA's Cassini spacecraft has sailed seamlessly through the Nov. 21 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and started transmitting uncalibrated temperature data and images of the rippling terrain. |
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November 20, 2009 Popular Science and Popular Mechanics Magazines Honor KeplerNASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has earned the 2009 Best of What's New Grand Award from Popular Science and a 2009 Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics. |
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November 19, 2009 Before Darkness Falls: Cassini to Scan Enceladus on Winter's CuspNASA's Cassini spacecraft will fly by Saturn's moon Enceladus this weekend for a last peek at the intriguing "tiger stripes" before winter darkness blankets the area for several years. |
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November 19, 2009 Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar SystemWhen NASA's Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system. |
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November 18, 2009 Second Planned Extrication Drive is Straight Ahead AgainBecause the first extrication drive for Spirit, on Sol 2088 (Nov. 17), stopped as soon as it began due to an exceeded tilt limit, the plan for an extrication drive on Sol 2090 (Nov. 19) will essentially be a repeat of the first drive plan, but with improved rover attitude knowledge. |
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November 18, 2009 NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to SmithsonianTwo key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis last May. |
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Kepler Starts Hunt for Earth-Like Worlds |
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Herschel and Planck Launch |
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Parachute Test for Mars |
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Eyes on the Earth 3D |
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Cool Stars |
All 2009 releases
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