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HERA Mission, SpaceX & SciNews at November Astro on Tap
By Joanne A Calitri   |   November 26, 2024

Captain’s Log Star Date 78338.4. It was the evening before the full Beaver moon for budding astrophysicists and stargazers from local universities to join with friends to hear  the Las Cumbres Observatory’s renown astrophysicist Tim Lister PhD, with Andrew [Andy] Howell PhD and Moira Andrews UCSB grad student at the M Special pub. This free […]

Tim Lister Awarded NASA Grant for the ESA’s Hera Mission
By Joanne A Calitri   |   July 30, 2024

Tim Lister PhD, Senior Scientist at the Las Cumbres Observatory, Goleta, has been awarded a grant from NASA to join the European Space Agency’s Hera Mission, as one of 12 U.S. participating scientists.  On September 26, 2022, the world’s first planetary defense test mission was carried out by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). In […]