News tagged with solar orbiter
S.Korea rocket blows up minutes after blast-off (Update 2)
A South Korean rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit exploded Thursday less than three minutes after blast-off, dealing another blow to Seoul's dreams of joining Asia's space race.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Phoenix Mars Lander is Silent, New Image Shows Damage
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ended operations after repeated attempts to contact the spacecraft were unsuccessful. A new image transmitted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows signs ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 24, 2010 |
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Sunset Planet Alert
The solar system's innermost planets are about to put on a beautiful show.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 01, 2010 |
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A mission to clear dangerous debris from space (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- New UK technology is set to play a major part in clearing dangerous clouds of debris hurtling around the Earth's lower orbit.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2010 |
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ESA chooses 3 scientific missions for further study
Dark energy, habitable planets around other stars, and the mysterious nature of our own Sun, have been chosen by ESA as candidates for two medium-class missions to be launched no earlier than 2017.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2010 |
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NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the Sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun's inner workings in ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2010 |
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The First of Many Asteroid Finds for WISE
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Dunes of Sand: Resumed Mars Orbiter Observations Yield Stunning Views
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dunes of sand-sized materials have been trapped on the floors of many Martian craters. This view shows dunes inside a crater in Noachis Terra, west of the giant Hellas impact basin in Mars' ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2010 |
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NASA to Check for Unlikely Winter Survival of Mars Lander
(PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning Jan. 18, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for possible, though improbable, radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander, which completed five months of studying an arctic ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 12, 2010 |
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Astronomers discover 'tilted planets'
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Exeter, UK, research has added to a growing evidence that several giant planets have orbits so tilted that their orbits can be perpendicular or even backwards relative to their ...
Dec 22, 2009 |
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New Transient Radiation Belt Discovered at Saturn
Scientists using the Cassini spacecraft's Magnetospheric Imaging instrument (MIMI) have detected a new, temporary radiation belt at Saturn, located around the orbit of its moon Dione at about 377 000 km ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Orbiter Safe After Computer Swap
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode, a precautionary standby status, and in communications with Earth after unexpectedly switching to its backup computer on Thurs. Aug. 6.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Longest Solar Eclipse of the 21st Century
One one-thousand, 2 one-thousand, 3 one-thousand, 4 one-thousand... Continue counting and don't stop until you reach 399 one-thousand.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 21, 2009 |
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GOES-O satellite reaches orbit, renamed GOES-14
On June 27, 2009, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, soared into space during a spectacular launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. GOES-O has now been renamed ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2009 |
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory arrives at Kennedy Space Center
NASA's upcoming mission to study the sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on July 9.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2009 |
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