News tagged with science mission
Astronomers detect echoes from the depth of a red giant star
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today an international team of astronomers reports the discovery of waves inside a star that travel so deep that they reach the core. The discovery was published in the renowned journal Science, and wa ...
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Earth and space science missions have fewer risks if conducted by a single government agency: report
Earth and space science missions developed and implemented by federal agencies in collaboration typically result in additional complexity and cost and increased risks from divided responsibilities and accountability, says ...
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Europe maintains its presence on the final frontier
ESA has decided to extend the productive lives of 11 of its operating space science missions. This will enable ESA's world-class science missions to continue returning pioneering results until at least 2014.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2010 |
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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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Kepler mission team completes quarterly contact with the spacecraft
The Kepler Project Team completed another quarterly roll of the spacecraft Sept. 22-23, 2010. The roll will keep Kepler spacecraft power generation nominal for the fall season with proper alignment of the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Landing site for Rosetta going South
Scientists have determined that ESA's Rosetta mission needs to deliver its lander to a site in the southern hemisphere of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. A site in this region will be the safest and most ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Data clippers set sail to enhance future planetary missions
A new golden age of sailing may be about to begin - in space. Future missions to explore the outer planets could employ fleets of 'data-clippers', manoeuvrable spacecraft equipped with solar sails, to ship ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 21, 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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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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WUSTL-led moon mission is finalist for NASA's next big space venture
Nearly 40 years after the Apollo astronauts first brought samples of the Moon to Earth for study, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis are leading an effort to return to the Moon for samples ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 04, 2010 |
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Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study
Scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet, in research published tomorrow in Earth an ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Ulysses space mission to end
After 18.6 years in space and defying several earlier expectations of its demise, the joint ESA/NASA solar orbiter Ulysses will achieve 'end of mission' on 30 June 2009. The final communication pass with a ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 26, 2009 |
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