January 10, 2011 - Satellite Roundup

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May 14, 2012 - Monkey Nebula

May 7, 2012 - Getting a Grip on INTELSAT

April 30, 2012 - Dust in the Wind

April 23, 2012 - Celebrate Astronomy Day

April 16, 2012 - Rover Rides Again

April 9, 2012 - Mercury’s Marvelous Morphology

April 2, 2012 - A Matter of Truss

March 26, 2012 - Hubble Bubble

March 19, 2012 - Rocket Pioneer Centennial

March 12, 2012 - Southern Lights on Saturn

March 5, 2012 - A New Star in Town

February 27, 2012 - Hubble Upgrade

February 20, 2012 - Sideways Supernova

February 13, 2012 - Auroras Gone Wild

February 6, 2012 - Hubble Telescope Tune-Up

January 30, 2012 - Lunar Orbiter Liftoff

January 23, 2012 - Magellan Turns up the Stereo

January 16, 2012 - Southern Sibling Sees Stars

January 9, 2012 - Hitching a Ride Home

January 2, 2012 - Transforming the Space Frontier

December 26, 2011 - These Laws Can't Be Broken

December 19, 2011 - Long and Winding Road

December 12, 2011 - Blast from the Past

December 5, 2011 - It’s Just Like Folding a Map

November 28, 2011 - A Warmer, Wetter Mars

November 21, 2011 - Spy in the Sky

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The Week in Space

January 10-16, 2011

Satellite Roundup The space shuttle Endeavour is seen here poised for launch prior to the start of the STS-72 mission, which took place fifteen years ago this week. During their nine-day mission, Endeavour’s astronauts retrieved the Space Flyer Unit (SFU), a four-ton spacecraft that was launched by Japan ten months earlier. SFU carried numerous instruments, including an infrared telescope and power-generating equipment, and was controlled by the Kangoshima Space Center in Japan. The crew also deployed and retrieved the OAST Flyer, a test bed for technology experiments. Three of the STS-72 astronauts were involved in two space walks during which they tested tools destined for the International Space Station. On their second EVA they evaluated thermal improvements to the space suits.

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Weekly Calendar

January 10-16, 2011

Holidays - Sky Events - Space History

Monday 10

Moon at apogee
Uranus and Jupiter 7° south of Moon

1946: U.S. Army bounces radar signal off the Moon
1969: Venera 6 launched

Tuesday 11

1978: First triple docking: Soyuz 26, Soyuz 27, Salyut 6
1996: STS-72 Endeavour launched
1998: Lunar Prospector arrives at Moon

Wednesday 12

First Quarter Moon 6:31 AM ET

1820: Royal Astronomical Society founded
1986: STS-61C Columbia launched
1997: STS-81 Atlantis launched
2005: Deep Impact spacecraft launched

Thursday 13

1610: Galileo discovers Ganymede, moon of Jupiter
1978: NASA selects first women astronauts
1993: STS-54 Endeavour launched

Friday 14

1975: Earth Resources Technology Satellite is renamed Landsat
2005: Huygens probe lands on Titan
2008: MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby of Mercury