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Successful Phoenix Mars landing restores confidence in NASA
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-25 20:33:53
Plagued by previous Mars failures and exploding space shuttles, the successful landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander today has gone a long way to restoring some much needed faith in the world’s foremost space exploration organisation: NASA.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-25 20:33:53
Plagued by previous Mars failures and exploding space shuttles, the successful landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander today has gone a long way to restoring some much needed faith in the world’s foremost space exploration organisation: NASA.
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Seven minutes of terror as Phoenix Mars spacecraft attempts historic landing
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-25 04:05:45
With less than 15 hours to go before the Phoenix Mars Lander is set to undergo “seven minutes of terror” as it tries to successfully land on Mars’ icy north pole. The world awaits the latest successful “invasion of Mars” – or word of a new crater.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-25 04:05:45
With less than 15 hours to go before the Phoenix Mars Lander is set to undergo “seven minutes of terror” as it tries to successfully land on Mars’ icy north pole. The world awaits the latest successful “invasion of Mars” – or word of a new crater.
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Faulty bolts could take Soyuz into another ballistic re-entry
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-24 20:47:05
The Soyuz spacecraft—TMA-12—currently docked to the International Space Station contains the same type of bolts that supposedly made the last two Soyuz flights—TMA-10 and TMA-11— re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere in a ballistic trajectory.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-24 20:47:05
The Soyuz spacecraft—TMA-12—currently docked to the International Space Station contains the same type of bolts that supposedly made the last two Soyuz flights—TMA-10 and TMA-11— re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere in a ballistic trajectory.
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Pioneer Anomaly partially explained with heat
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-04 12:01:41
The Pioneer Anomaly is a mystery involving the NASA Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft. Launched in 1972-73, they have traveled hundreds of millions of kilometers to explore the outer solar system and, soon, interstellar space. However, their speed is wrong, at least according to our generally accepted laws of physics.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-04 12:01:41
The Pioneer Anomaly is a mystery involving the NASA Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft. Launched in 1972-73, they have traveled hundreds of millions of kilometers to explore the outer solar system and, soon, interstellar space. However, their speed is wrong, at least according to our generally accepted laws of physics.
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“Nines” have it for Nanosatellite space race: The N-prize
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-03 07:41:09
English biologist Paul H. Dear has proposed The N-prize, a race to put the first Nanosatellite in orbit for a cost of only 999.99 pounds (about US$2,000). Your first place prize is 9,999.99 pounds (about US$20,000).
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-03 07:41:09
English biologist Paul H. Dear has proposed The N-prize, a race to put the first Nanosatellite in orbit for a cost of only 999.99 pounds (about US$2,000). Your first place prize is 9,999.99 pounds (about US$20,000).
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Maybe you can't go to the Moon. But, your Name can!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-01 17:45:22
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is inviting everyone around the world to join in its ‘first step back to the Moon’ with its "Send Your Name to the Moon" project as part of its LRO spacecraft mission.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-05-01 17:45:22
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is inviting everyone around the world to join in its ‘first step back to the Moon’ with its "Send Your Name to the Moon" project as part of its LRO spacecraft mission.
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Jules Verne spacecraft takes ISS up, up, and away
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-25 15:48:28
On April 25, 2008, the European Space Agency announced that earlier in the day its first automated transfer vehicle (ATV), the "Jules Verne," increased the altitude of the International Space Station by about 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers)—the first time an ESA craft had performed such an important task.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-25 15:48:28
On April 25, 2008, the European Space Agency announced that earlier in the day its first automated transfer vehicle (ATV), the "Jules Verne," increased the altitude of the International Space Station by about 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers)—the first time an ESA craft had performed such an important task.
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NASA Ames and M2MI team up for nanosatellites
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-24 19:45:56
NASA’s Ames Research Center announces that it will be developing tiny space-based satellites with M2MI Corporation for fifth-generation telecommunications and networking systems for the Internet.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-24 19:45:56
NASA’s Ames Research Center announces that it will be developing tiny space-based satellites with M2MI Corporation for fifth-generation telecommunications and networking systems for the Internet.
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Danish physicists find solar flares produce starquakes
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-24 08:06:13
The scientists used the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) to find oscillations in the outermost one-fourth of the Sun’s interior, which are called starquakes, as the result of the explosions of large solar flares.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-24 08:06:13
The scientists used the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) to find oscillations in the outermost one-fourth of the Sun’s interior, which are called starquakes, as the result of the explosions of large solar flares.
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46 years ago: First U.S. spacecraft, Ranger 4, impacts Moon
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-21 16:59:29
On April 23, 1962, Ranger 4 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Three days later, it became the first U.S. satellite to reach the Moon’s surface—when it crashed into the body.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-21 16:59:29
On April 23, 1962, Ranger 4 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Three days later, it became the first U.S. satellite to reach the Moon’s surface—when it crashed into the body.
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Space Junk: Maybe we need Andy Griffith’s Salvage 1?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-17 15:06:43
On late-1970s U.S. television, Harry Broderick (Andy Griffith) ran a space salvage operation (Salvage-1), in which he and partners used a spaceship made from junk to reclaim NASA Apollo debris left on the Moon and junk satellites in orbit about the Earth. Maybe we need an Andy Griffith-type Salvage-1 operation to clean up space around the Earth?
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-17 15:06:43
On late-1970s U.S. television, Harry Broderick (Andy Griffith) ran a space salvage operation (Salvage-1), in which he and partners used a spaceship made from junk to reclaim NASA Apollo debris left on the Moon and junk satellites in orbit about the Earth. Maybe we need an Andy Griffith-type Salvage-1 operation to clean up space around the Earth?
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NASA probe shoots 3D images of potato-shaped moon Phobos
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-12 09:28:48
The NASA spacecraft Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has taken stunning false-color, three-dimensional images of the small, irregularly shaped Mars’ moon Phobos using its HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-12 09:28:48
The NASA spacecraft Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has taken stunning false-color, three-dimensional images of the small, irregularly shaped Mars’ moon Phobos using its HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera.
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Russian Soyuz TMA-12 launches first South Korean astronaut
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-08 08:22:16
Yi So-yeon, the first astronaut for South Korea, was launched successfully into space on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, at 5:16 p.m. local time (1116 GMT) from launch pad LC 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (central Asia).
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-08 08:22:16
Yi So-yeon, the first astronaut for South Korea, was launched successfully into space on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, at 5:16 p.m. local time (1116 GMT) from launch pad LC 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (central Asia).
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ISS Expedition 17 mission to launch 2 Russians and 1 S. Korean
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-01 08:24:41
A Russian Soyuz FG launch vehicle will be sending up into space two Expedition 17 crewmembers and a South Korean spaceflight participant on April 8, 2008, aboard a Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-04-01 08:24:41
A Russian Soyuz FG launch vehicle will be sending up into space two Expedition 17 crewmembers and a South Korean spaceflight participant on April 8, 2008, aboard a Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft.
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Jules Verne demo two successful
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-31 21:29:56
The second test approach of the Jules Verne ATV to the International Space Station has been hailed as "impressive".
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-31 21:29:56
The second test approach of the Jules Verne ATV to the International Space Station has been hailed as "impressive".
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Jules Verne passes Demo Day One
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-30 21:36:53
The ESA's automated transfer vehicle passed its first major test when Jules Verne successfully navigated to a point 3.5km behind the International Space Station.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-30 21:36:53
The ESA's automated transfer vehicle passed its first major test when Jules Verne successfully navigated to a point 3.5km behind the International Space Station.
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Luna 10: forty-two years ago, first lunar orbiter
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-28 17:18:36
On March 31, 1966, Luna 10 was launched from the Soviet Baikonur Cosmodrome to the Moon at 10:48:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and, on April 3, 1966, it entered the Moon’s orbit at 18:44 UTC. It became the first human-built craft to orbit another celestial body.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-28 17:18:36
On March 31, 1966, Luna 10 was launched from the Soviet Baikonur Cosmodrome to the Moon at 10:48:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and, on April 3, 1966, it entered the Moon’s orbit at 18:44 UTC. It became the first human-built craft to orbit another celestial body.
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Delayed slightly by weather, Endeavour lands safely
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-26 21:39:15
Despite a delay of approximately 90 minutes caused by cloud over Florida, space shuttle Endeavour has landed safely at Kennedy Space Center.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-26 21:39:15
Despite a delay of approximately 90 minutes caused by cloud over Florida, space shuttle Endeavour has landed safely at Kennedy Space Center.
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Shuttle Endeavour heading for home
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-24 23:57:16
Endeavour has undocked from the International Space Station in preparation for its return to Earth later this week.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-24 23:57:16
Endeavour has undocked from the International Space Station in preparation for its return to Earth later this week.
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NASA Cassini spacecraft to take dip near space geyser
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-11 09:58:14
On Wednesday, March 12, 2008, NASA mission controllers will direct the Cassini spacecraft to make its closest approach to Saturn’s moon Enceladus to sample water-ice, dust, and gas from active geysers.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-11 09:58:14
On Wednesday, March 12, 2008, NASA mission controllers will direct the Cassini spacecraft to make its closest approach to Saturn’s moon Enceladus to sample water-ice, dust, and gas from active geysers.
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