News tagged with shields
Astronauts forced into shorter shuttle survey
(AP) -- A pinched cable forced Atlantis' astronauts to resort to a more inconvenient and less comprehensive method of inspecting their space shuttle Saturday as they sped toward a weekend rendezvous with ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 15, 2010 |
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NASA studying 2 new space shuttle problems
(AP) -- NASA is taking a close look at two new problems on space shuttle Endeavour.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Superconductor magnet spacecraft heat shield being developed
(PhysOrg.com) -- European space agencies and an aerospace giant are developing a new re-entry heat shield that will use superconductor magnets to generate a magnetic field strong enough to deflect the superhot ...
Nov 26, 2009 |
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NASA Launches New Technology: An Inflatable Heat Shield
A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Rocket to Launch Inflatable Re-entry Capsule
(PhysOrg.com) -- Inflatable aircraft are not a new idea. Hot air balloons have been around for more than two centuries and blimps are a common sight over many sports stadiums. But it's hard to imagine an inflatable ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2009 |
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National study finds youth baseball-related injuries down 25 percent
Spring marks baseball season for more than 19 million children and adolescents who play each year as part of a team or in backyards throughout the United States. The good news for these players is that the number of injuries ...
May 26, 2009 |
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If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with NASA's Coolest Space Telescope
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years. On about May 12, give or take a week or so, the observatory is predicted ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 05, 2009 |
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Planck satellite fuels up
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tests conducted on Planck at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, have confirmed that the satellite's subsystems work perfectly, and the helium dilution cooler tanks have now been ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 23, 2009 |
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NASA Selects Material for Orion Spacecraft Heat Shield
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has chosen the material for a heat shield that will protect a new generation of space explorers when they return from the moon. After extensive study, NASA has selected the Avcoat ablator system for ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Researchers discover a protein that amplifies cell death
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified a small intracellular protein that helps cells commit suicide. The finding, reported as the "paper of the week" in the ...
Jan 15, 2009 |
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