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Launch of NASA's nuSTAR mission postponed
(PhysOrg.com) -- The planned launch of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission has been postponed after a March 15 launch status meeting. The launch will be rescheduled to allow additional ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2012 |
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NASA five rocket ATREX mission moved to March 20
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has rescheduled the launch of five suborbital sounding rockets from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream to no earlier than Tuesday night, March 20.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2012 |
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NASA postpones launch of X-ray telescope
NASA has postponed the launch of a new X-ray telescope to allow more time to check an issue with the rocket that will boost it into orbit.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Student-designed robots take on March Madness
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sixty-six national and international high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional FIRST (For Inspiration and ...
Mar 16, 2012 |
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The amazing technology that crafted the Webb Telescope technology
The creation of the next generation James Webb Space Telescope was only possible as a result of imagining and developing the industrial machines that would make it a reality. In the near future, some of that ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Glittering jewels of Messier 9
(PhysOrg.com) -- The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the center of the galaxy. This ball of stars is too faint ...
Mar 16, 2012 |
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NASA's IceBridge 2012 Arctic campaign takes to the skies
Researchers and flight crew with NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in polar ice, began another season of science activity with the start of the 2012 Arctic campaign on March 13. From mid-March ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 15, 2012 |
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NASA develops Augmented Reality headset for commercial pilots
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia has been hard at work developing an Augmented Reality headset for use by commercial pilots to help reduce airline accidents due to poor weather ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Estonia to extradite high flying cyber crime suspect to US
Estonia on Thursday said it would extradite Estonian citizen Anton Ivanov to the United States over alleged cyber crimes involving such popular websites as iTunes, Netflix and the US tax service.
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Space image: Compact planetary system
(PhysOrg.com) -- This artist's concept depicts a planetary system so compact that it's more like Jupiter and its moons than a star and its planets. Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission and ground-based ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 15, 2012 |
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New WISE mission catalog of entire infrared sky released
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ...
Mar 15, 2012 |
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NASA and CSA robotic operations advance satellite servicing
NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) experiment aboard the International Space Station has demonstrated remotely controlled robots and specialized tools can perform precise satellite-servicing tasks in space. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 14, 2012 |
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GM, NASA jointly developing robotic gloves for human use
(PhysOrg.com) -- General Motors and NASA are jointly developing a robotic glove that auto workers and astronauts can wear to help do their respective jobs better while potentially reducing the risk of repetitive ...
Mar 14, 2012 |
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Space Image: Schirra and Stafford suit up
Gemini VI astronauts Walter Schirra (seated), command pilot, and Thomas Stafford, pilot, go through suiting up exercises in preparation for their forthcoming flight in this image from October 1965. The suit ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 14, 2012 |
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NASA rocket launch scheduled March 15, 2012
NASA is scheduled to launch five suborbital sounding rockets in just over five minutes March 15 from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 13, 2012 |
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