items tagged with Spacecraft
Jules Verne ready for launch
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-05 17:45:11
Jules Verne, the ESA's first Automated Transfer Vehicle, has been declared ready for launch.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-03-05 17:45:11
Jules Verne, the ESA's first Automated Transfer Vehicle, has been declared ready for launch.
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NASA cautions U.S. space program has mighty competitor in China
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-26 08:24:34
On Wednesday, February 13, 2008, NASA administrator Dr. Michael Griffin spoke to the U.S. House of Representative's Science and Technology Committee about the advances made in the Chinese space program over the past few years—admitting that China is a major competitor of the United States.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-26 08:24:34
On Wednesday, February 13, 2008, NASA administrator Dr. Michael Griffin spoke to the U.S. House of Representative's Science and Technology Committee about the advances made in the Chinese space program over the past few years—admitting that China is a major competitor of the United States.
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NRO to launch NROL-28 satellite after failure of NROL-21
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-25 09:18:15
The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is scheduled to launch a classified spacecraft payload, NROL-28, on Friday, February 29, 2008. Its non-functioning NROL-21 satellite was in the news lately because it had to be shot down by the U.S. Navy with one of its missiles.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-25 09:18:15
The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is scheduled to launch a classified spacecraft payload, NROL-28, on Friday, February 29, 2008. Its non-functioning NROL-21 satellite was in the news lately because it had to be shot down by the U.S. Navy with one of its missiles.
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Sun to destroy Earth in 7.6 billion years
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-24 06:27:39
No need to panic just yet, but in 7.6 billion years, the dying Sun will expand and burn up our planet completely. The answer? Use a large passing asteroid to ‘nudge’ our orbit further outwards; live on space ‘life rafts’ or leave the planet in search of strange new worlds.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-24 06:27:39
No need to panic just yet, but in 7.6 billion years, the dying Sun will expand and burn up our planet completely. The answer? Use a large passing asteroid to ‘nudge’ our orbit further outwards; live on space ‘life rafts’ or leave the planet in search of strange new worlds.
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NASA announces retirement of legendary solar explorer: Ulysses
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-23 10:36:39
On Friday, February 22, 2008, NASA announced that the Ulysses spacecraft will be soon retired after over seventeen years in space orbiting the Sun and going as far out as Jupiter. The remarkable space mission of Ulysses has provided Earth scientists with a galactic amount of data.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-23 10:36:39
On Friday, February 22, 2008, NASA announced that the Ulysses spacecraft will be soon retired after over seventeen years in space orbiting the Sun and going as far out as Jupiter. The remarkable space mission of Ulysses has provided Earth scientists with a galactic amount of data.
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Google search of Moon could result in $20 million
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-23 09:13:25
If a privately funded spacecraft can find its way to the Moon and travel about on its surface, Google will award the developers $20 million in the quest for the Google Lunar X Prize.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-23 09:13:25
If a privately funded spacecraft can find its way to the Moon and travel about on its surface, Google will award the developers $20 million in the quest for the Google Lunar X Prize.
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Fly with Cassie to the planet Saturn
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-05 08:42:37
If you like to travel in space to Saturn, log on to a new 3D NASA website called Cassie (Cassini at Saturn-Interactive Explorer) and travel virtually to the ringed planet.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-05 08:42:37
If you like to travel in space to Saturn, log on to a new 3D NASA website called Cassie (Cassini at Saturn-Interactive Explorer) and travel virtually to the ringed planet.
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NASA sends The Beatles “on and on across the universe”
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-01 09:43:19
On January 31, 2008, NASA announced that its Deep Space Network will beam The Beatles’ song “Across the Universe” into outer space at 7 p.m. EST on Monday, February 4, 2008. You can join in on the celebration!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-01 09:43:19
On January 31, 2008, NASA announced that its Deep Space Network will beam The Beatles’ song “Across the Universe” into outer space at 7 p.m. EST on Monday, February 4, 2008. You can join in on the celebration!
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TMA-10 Russian-Malaysian cosmonauts had rough ride home
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-30 08:31:14
It was reported by Russian space officials, on Tuesday, January 29, 2008, that on October 21, 2007 three space travelers came down for a landing at a steeper descent than normal: calling it “like an elephant pressing on my chest.”
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-30 08:31:14
It was reported by Russian space officials, on Tuesday, January 29, 2008, that on October 21, 2007 three space travelers came down for a landing at a steeper descent than normal: calling it “like an elephant pressing on my chest.”
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GRAIL: New NASA robotic mission to explore inside of Moon
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-16 10:31:58
The NASA Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, consisting to twin orbiting spacecraft, will be launched in 2011 to explore the interior structure of the Moon.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-16 10:31:58
The NASA Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, consisting to twin orbiting spacecraft, will be launched in 2011 to explore the interior structure of the Moon.
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Jules Verne goes to space in February 2008
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-15 12:08:49
The European Space Agency’s first automated transfer vehicle (ATV), called the Jules Verne (ATV-1), is being prepared for its first launch in February 2008--a mission to the International Space Station.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-15 12:08:49
The European Space Agency’s first automated transfer vehicle (ATV), called the Jules Verne (ATV-1), is being prepared for its first launch in February 2008--a mission to the International Space Station.
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Ulysses spacecraft known for its resourcefulness
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-15 08:33:25
With the Sun beginning a new solar cycle (No. 24), the Ulysses spacecraft just happens to be at the right spot, at the right time: the solar North Pole.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-15 08:33:25
With the Sun beginning a new solar cycle (No. 24), the Ulysses spacecraft just happens to be at the right spot, at the right time: the solar North Pole.
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Forty years ago: Apollo 5 lifts off to test lunar module
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-14 08:42:14
On January 22, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 5 was launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Pad 37B on an unmanned mission around Earth to test the lunar module. Its success led directly to America’s eventual landing on the Moon.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-14 08:42:14
On January 22, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 5 was launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Pad 37B on an unmanned mission around Earth to test the lunar module. Its success led directly to America’s eventual landing on the Moon.
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Historic return to planet Mercury set for January 14, 2008
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-11 12:59:42
The NASA spacecraft MESSENGER is expected to pass within 124 miles (200 kilometers) of the planet Mercury on Monday, January 14, 2008. It is only the second spacecraft to fly near Mercury, and the first one in over thirty years.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-11 12:59:42
The NASA spacecraft MESSENGER is expected to pass within 124 miles (200 kilometers) of the planet Mercury on Monday, January 14, 2008. It is only the second spacecraft to fly near Mercury, and the first one in over thirty years.
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NASA reports February 7 as new STS-122 liftoff
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-11 10:10:12
On Thursday, January 11th, NASA officials announced that the new "tentative" launch data for the STS-122 mission and the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis to be February 7, 2008, at 2:47 p.m. EST (1947 GMT).
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-11 10:10:12
On Thursday, January 11th, NASA officials announced that the new "tentative" launch data for the STS-122 mission and the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis to be February 7, 2008, at 2:47 p.m. EST (1947 GMT).
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Historic Apollo footage discovered on “The Tennis Shoe Test”
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-01-07 09:49:41
Authors Alan Lawrie and Robert Pearlman wrote on the CollectSpace.com website about an interesting day in 1966 for NASA engineers.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-01-07 09:49:41
Authors Alan Lawrie and Robert Pearlman wrote on the CollectSpace.com website about an interesting day in 1966 for NASA engineers.
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Fifty years ago U.S. begins to explore space: Explorer-1
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-06 10:57:39
The month of January 1958 was very busy for the pioneers that began space exploration for the United States. Satellite 1958 Alpha (commonly called Explorer-1) lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in Florida, on January 31, 1958--the beginning of the Space Age for the United States.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-06 10:57:39
The month of January 1958 was very busy for the pioneers that began space exploration for the United States. Satellite 1958 Alpha (commonly called Explorer-1) lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in Florida, on January 31, 1958--the beginning of the Space Age for the United States.
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NASA sets launch of STS-122 mission at January 24, 2008
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-03 20:57:03
On Thursday, January 3, 2008, NASA announced that the space agency can fix the fuel gauge problem and launch the space shuttle Atlantis by January 24, 2008, but expect that the complex work may delay the flight to early February.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-03 20:57:03
On Thursday, January 3, 2008, NASA announced that the space agency can fix the fuel gauge problem and launch the space shuttle Atlantis by January 24, 2008, but expect that the complex work may delay the flight to early February.
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Progress M-62 acts as Santa: brings gifts to space station crew
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-29 08:14:13
A Russian cargo ship, Progress M-62, docked at the Space Station on Wednesday, December 26, 2007, bringing supplies including Christmas and New Year gifts to the three crew members. They must have been good little boys and girls to get two tons of gifts.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-29 08:14:13
A Russian cargo ship, Progress M-62, docked at the Space Station on Wednesday, December 26, 2007, bringing supplies including Christmas and New Year gifts to the three crew members. They must have been good little boys and girls to get two tons of gifts.
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STS-122 delayed further as NASA removes faulty connector
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-28 08:31:29
Space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale announced Thursday, December 27, 2007, that NASA engineers will remove parts of a problematic fuel tank connector onboard Atlantis. Further delay to the STS-122 mission will occur.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-28 08:31:29
Space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale announced Thursday, December 27, 2007, that NASA engineers will remove parts of a problematic fuel tank connector onboard Atlantis. Further delay to the STS-122 mission will occur.
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