Lee Labuschagne
Digital Journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa, South Africa.
Joined on Apr 13, 2010
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Pasadena -
This week NASA's Voyager 1's spacecraft performed a maneuver that it hadn't done for 21 years so that it could gather data about the solar wind in the outer reaches of the solar system.
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Manchester -
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope has successfully passed the System Engineering Conceptual Design Review, an important milestone for this huge international project.
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Pasadena -
NASA is today celebrating the fact that its versatile Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter started orbiting Mars five years ago. The mission has already radically expanded our knowledge of the "red planet".
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Huntsville -
NASA atmospheric scientists had an unexpected chance to study a curious phenomenon called "thundersnow" when a recent storm unleashed right over their heads.
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Cape Canaveral -
Space shuttle Discovery was successfully launched for the last time from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:53 p.m. EST on Feb. 24.
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Aveiro -
A workshop planned for 24-25 May in Portugal to examine latest information and trends in radio astronomy data analysis, will contribute towards decisions affecting the huge planned Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope.
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Pasadena -
Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have released comprehensive answers relating to a recent proposal by astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire about the existence of a large planet in the outer part of the solar system.
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Pasadena -
A new airborn study lead by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and taking place from Feb. 11 via unmanned aircraft, is expected to improve our understanding of how 'atmospheric rivers' form and behave.
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Pasadena -
NASA will be hosting live coverage of the Stardust-NExT mission's encounter with Comet Tempel 1 on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14.
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The Booker Prize Foundation has created a special prize to honor the work of the much-loved novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge, who was shortlisted five times for the Booker Prize, but never actually won.
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NASA's spacecraft, Stardust-NExT, is closing in for a second look at Comet Tempel 1 on Valentine's Day, 2011: an earlier NASA mission, Deep Impact, visited the comet in 2005 before its closest approach to the Sun.
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Johannesburg -
The South African government has broken its silence on the condition of former president Nelson Mandela, saying 'medically there is no need to panic.'
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Johannesburg -
While latest reports say that he may be released from hospital soon, uncertainty about the health of Mr Nelson Mandela continue after he was admitted to the Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg on Jan 26.
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Cape Town -
An invitation to the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra to undertake a concert tour along the East Coast of the United States from February to March 2011 is the first such invitation to an orchestra from the continent of Africa.
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The full judging panel for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has been announced. The panel will be chaired by author and former Director-General of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington.
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When we look up at a comet in the night sky, it may be a 'stolen pleasure: we may be looking at something that comes originally from a distant star.
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Pasadena -
A team of scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has brought the world one step closer to "hearing" gravitational waves - the ripples in space and time predicted by Albert Einstein in the early 20th century.
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Pasadena -
In the first comprehensive global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, NASA researchers determined Earth's largest lakes have warmed during the past 25 years in response to climate change.
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Hawthorne -
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has made SpaceX the first-ever commercial company to be licenced to re-enter a spacecraft from orbit.
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Brussels -
Should part of future Space Budgets be allocated directly to end-users of satellite services? This was one of the issues discussed at the recent Eurisy Conference "Securing the benefits of satellite services for European society", held in Brussels.
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