News tagged with flight conditions
Sun-powered plane waits for better weather to continue trip
The Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse is waiting for weather conditions to improve before continuing on its first transcontinental flight, organisers said Wednesday.
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Solar Impulse takes off on first intercontinental flight
The Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse on Thursday took off for Morocco on its first intercontinental flight attempt without using a drop of fuel.
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May 24, 2012 |
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SpaceX readies ambitious ISS launch
California-based company SpaceX was poised to launch its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station Saturday in what may be a historic mission for private spaceflight.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 18, 2012 |
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Largest bird alters its foraging due to climate change
Paris/ Leipzig. Wandering albatrosses have altered their foraging due to changes in wind fields in the southern hemisphere during the last decades. Since winds have increased in intensity and moved to the ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Researchers complete 520-day mock mission to Mars
(AP) -- Pale but smiling, an international crew of researchers on Friday walked out of a set of windowless modules after a grueling 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Balloon-based experiment to measure gamma rays 6,500 light years distant
Beginning Sunday, September 18, 2011 at NASA's launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, space scientists from the University of New Hampshire will attempt to send a balloon up to 130,000 feet with a one-ton ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 16, 2011 |
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Solar-powered plane set for Brussels takeoff
Swiss solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse will attempt to reach Paris from Brussels on Tuesday after a previous flight was aborted due to technical problems, its team said. ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Solar-powered plane's Paris flight abandoned
Swiss solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse landed in Brussels Saturday after the pilot aborted a flight to Paris following a series of technical problems, his team said.
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Jun 12, 2011 |
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Climate change makes butterflies more frequent flyers
Thanks to climate change, butterflies are flying more frequently, further and longer. This makes it easier for them to cope with a fragmented landscape, says Wageningen University doctoral researcher Anouk Cormont in an article ...
Feb 08, 2011 |
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A special kind of flight training
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of flight simulators will attempt to make air traffic safer.
Dec 08, 2009 |
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