Welcome to Astronotes
Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. We hope you will come here to learn what is hot and exciting, profound or even weird from worlds beyond ours . So that's the introduction out of the way, now on with the Universe!
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![Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by Richard Branson, is celebrating the first glide test of its SpaceShipTwo spaceplane this weekend. Piloted by Pete Siebold and Mike Alsbury, […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Image-of-vss-enterprise_glide-flight1-115x115.jpg "Richard Branson’s SpaceShip Enterprise boldly goes")
Richard Branson’s SpaceShip Enterprise boldly goes
Posted on October 11, 2010 | 2 CommentsVirgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by Richard Branson, is celebrating the first glide test of its SpaceShipTwo spaceplane this weekend. Piloted by Pete Siebold and Mike Alsbury, […] -
![I’d like to tell you that I’m on the surface of an asteroid called Itokawa. I travelled there on a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency mission called Hayabusa and was left […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Image-of-asteroid-Itokawa-115x115.jpg "How you can leave your name on other worlds!")
How you can leave your name on other worlds!
Posted on October 1, 2010 | No CommentsI’d like to tell you that I’m on the surface of an asteroid called Itokawa. I travelled there on a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency mission called Hayabusa and was left […] -
![The team at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency deserve congratulations for the amazing (and hopefully record-breaking) Hayabusa mission to asteroid 25143 Itokawa. Launched in 2003 (the spacecraft was called MUSES-C […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Image-of-Hayabusa-reentry-115x115.jpg "Hooray for Hayabusa: Japan’s asteroid pioneer")
Hooray for Hayabusa: Japan’s asteroid pioneer
Posted on October 1, 2010 | No CommentsThe team at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency deserve congratulations for the amazing (and hopefully record-breaking) Hayabusa mission to asteroid 25143 Itokawa. Launched in 2003 (the spacecraft was called MUSES-C […] -
![That amazing instrument, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), has just celebrated its twentieth anniversary since it was placed in orbit. Since then, (after a rocky start, remember that dodgy mirror?) […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Image-of-the-mystic-mountain-115x115.jpg "Hubble’s view of the Mystic Mountain")
Hubble’s view of the Mystic Mountain
Posted on September 24, 2010 | 1 CommentThat amazing instrument, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), has just celebrated its twentieth anniversary since it was placed in orbit. Since then, (after a rocky start, remember that dodgy mirror?) […] -
![In March 2010 that superb but underappreciated probe Mars Express made a series of very close passes by the Martian moon Phobos. On one occasion it came as close […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Image-of-Phobos-from-Mars-Express-115x115.jpg "Phobos: ESA’s daring encounters")
Phobos: ESA’s daring encounters
Posted on September 24, 2010 | No CommentsIn March 2010 that superb but underappreciated probe Mars Express made a series of very close passes by the Martian moon Phobos. On one occasion it came as close […] -
![Sub-orbital space tourism took a step forward on Monday 22 March 2010 when Virgin Galactic’s first spaceplane, VSS Enterprise, took to the air for the first time. The amazing craft […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Image-of-vss-enterprise-takeoff-115x115.jpg "Virgin Galactic boldly goes where no tourists have gone before")
Virgin Galactic boldly goes where no tourists have gone before
Posted on September 24, 2010 | No CommentsSub-orbital space tourism took a step forward on Monday 22 March 2010 when Virgin Galactic’s first spaceplane, VSS Enterprise, took to the air for the first time. The amazing craft […] -
![The Blue Streak rocket was an advanced British missile of the 1950s which nearly became a space rocket before ending up a casualty of government apathy. Let’s look at Blue […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/blustrk1-115x115.jpg "Blue Streak: the UK’s Cold War rocket")
Blue Streak: the UK’s Cold War rocket
Posted on September 22, 2010 | 6 CommentsThe Blue Streak rocket was an advanced British missile of the 1950s which nearly became a space rocket before ending up a casualty of government apathy. Let’s look at Blue […]