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New rocket aims for cheaper nudges in space: Plasma thruster is small, runs on inexpensive gases (Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Satellites orbiting the Earth must occasionally be nudged to stay on the correct path. MIT scientists are developing a new rocket that could make this and other spacecraft maneuvers much less ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 7

Lifelong pursuit of the secrets of the cosmos

In a small room at Caltech, space physicist Ed Stone and four of his colleagues puzzle over a trove of data that has just arrived from the bulbous edge of the solar system.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Ames celebrates the 40th anniversary of Pioneer 10

Launched on March 2,1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter. Famed as the most remote object ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0