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Juno Taking Shape in Denver
(PhysOrg.com) -- Assembly has begun on NASA's Juno spacecraft, which will help scientists understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. The mission, whose principal investigator is Scott Bolton of Southwest ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 06, 2010 |
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NASA Spins Manufacturing Technology to Forge New Tank Hardware
Five years ago a group of engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., had the bold idea to manufacture a five-meter diameter fuel tank ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Proposed Mission Would Return Sample from Asteroid 'Time Capsule'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life began. It also might hit ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 11, 2010 |
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NASA's high-tech GOES-P weather satellite lifts off
NASA on Thursday launched the latest in its family of high-tech meteorological satellites, adding to a constellation of spacecraft that watch storm development and weather conditions on Earth.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 05, 2010 |
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Lockheed Martin to cut 1,200 US jobs
US global security giant Lockheed Martin said Wednesday it will cut approximately 1,200 US jobs as part of a restructuring within its electronics systems business area.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 06, 2010 |
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Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Lights Up Sky
(PhysOrg.com) -- It looked like a light show in Elkton, Md., on Tuesday, Dec. 15, as NASA ground tested a full-scale attitude control motor, or ACM. The motor operated with precision as its elaborate eight-valve ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2009 |
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NASA Uses Twin Processes to Develop New Tank Dome Technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has partnered with Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, Colo., and MT Aerospace in Augsburg, Germany, to successfully manufacture the first full-scale friction stir welded and spun ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition
The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Center of Excellence to design nanostructures for energy harvesting and adaptive materials, and to develop tools to optimize critical cognitive ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 01, 2009 |
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This smart wheelchair has laser vision
(PhysOrg.com) -- Disability, John Spletzer believes, should no longer pose any obstacle to mobility. A blind person may not be able to see or a paraplegic to walk, but each can access the technology available ...
Nov 10, 2009 |
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NASA is 'go' for crucial rocket test
NASA is set to blast off a prototype rocket on Tuesday that carries hopes of returning humans to the Moon, and for the first time to Mars, despite deep uncertainty about the program's future.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2009 |
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GOES-P satellite preparing for launch in March 2010
Just two months after the successful launch of the GOES-O spacecraft, now called GOES-14 in orbit, the NASA team removed the GOES-P spacecraft from storage and commenced its post storage testing. GOES-P is ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Ariane 5 places Japan, Australia satellites in orbit
An Ariane 5 rocket successfully placed communications satellites into geostationary orbit on Friday for Japan's SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation and Australian operator Optus, according to Arianespace.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2009 |
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Lockheed Martin aerospace division to cut 800 jobs
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, a division of US global security firm Lockheed Martin Corporation, said Monday it would cut about 800 jobs by year-end to improve its competitiveness.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Space panel considers alternatives to NASA's plan for moon base
A presidential space panel on Thursday challenged NASA's vision of establishing a base on the moon and instead weighed other ambitious options that include free-ranging spaceships that could visit destinations throughout ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Heat Shield Readied for Next Mars Rover
Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, has finished building and testing the heat shield for protecting the Curiosity rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project. This heat shield is even larger than the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2009 |
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