News tagged with instrument
Student dust counter breaks distance record on New Horizons mission to Pluto
A University of Colorado at Boulder space dust counter designed, tested and operated by students that is flying aboard NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto now holds the record for the most distant working ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 12, 2010 |
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XPP instrument blasts past key milestones
(PhysOrg.com) -- The X-ray Pump Probe instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source is installed and ready for its first user experiments several weeks ahead of schedule, thanks in part to funds provided by ...
Oct 05, 2010 |
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NASA's Webb telescope MIRI instrument takes one step closer to space
A major instrument due to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is getting its first taste of space in the test facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the United Kingdom. The Mid-InfraRed ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 02, 2010 |
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NASA team obtains the 'unobtainium' for next space observatory
Imagine building a car chassis without a blueprint or even a list of recommended construction materials. In a sense, that's precisely what a team of engineers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Relics from Scott's doomed Antarctic trip fetch 500,000 dlrs
Photographs, skis and other relics belonging to a scientist on Captain Scott's ill-fated Antarctic trip sold for 370,000 pounds (579,000 dollars, 434,000 euros), Christie's auctioneers said Thursday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2010 |
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NASA and NOAA's newest GOES satellite ready for action
NASA and NOAA's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service. The satellite has demonstrated ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 01, 2010 |
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A decade of studying the Earth's magnetic shield, in 3-D
Today (September 1), space scientists around the world are celebrating ten years of ground-breaking discoveries by 'Cluster', a mission that is illuminating the mysteries of the magnetosphere, the northern ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 31, 2010 |
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LEDs illuminate eye for ocular disease screening
A new imaging system using six different wavelengths to illuminate the interior of the eyeball (ocular fundus) may pave the way for doctors to easily screen patients for common diseases of the eye, such as age-related macular ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Relics from Scott's doomed Antarctic trip on sale
The skis and scientific instruments of a physicist who accompanied Captain Scott on his ill-fated trip to the Antarctic will be sold in London next month, Christie's auctioneers said Wednesday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2010 |
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Richest planetary system discovered (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using ESO's world-leading HARPS instrument have discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets, orbiting the Sun-like star HD 10180. The researchers also have tantalising ...
Aug 24, 2010 |
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Particle physics used to mitigate natural disasters
Talk of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s single biggest scientific instrument, has mostly focused on the search for the mysterious Higgs Boson, the as yet undetected particle that scientists hope will reveal the ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 16, 2010 |
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UA-Operated Stereo Camera Selected for Mars Mission
(PhysOrg.com) -- The UA's High Resolution Stereo Color Imager was selected as one of five instruments for the first joint mission to Mars by NASA and the European Space Agency. HiSCI is designed to uncover ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 03, 2010 |
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MetOp-B module passes crucial vacuum test
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Payload Module of ESA's latest meteorological satellite, MetOp-B, has been hauled out of the largest vacuum chamber in Europe: its ability to operate in the harsh conditions of space has ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Instruments selected for Mars
ESA and NASA have selected the scientific instruments for their first joint Mars mission. Scheduled for 2016, it will study the chemical makeup of the martian atmosphere, including methane. Discovered in 2003, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 02, 2010 |
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EMC's 2Q net more than doubles as firms stock up
(AP) -- EMC Corp.'s net income more than doubled in the second quarter as corporations opened the spigot on spending for more data storage.
Jul 21, 2010 |
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