News tagged with solar probe
NRL's wide-field imager selected for Solar Probe Plus mission
NASA has chosen the Naval Research Laboratory's Wide-field Imager to be part of the Solar Probe Plus mission slated for launch no later than 2018. The Solar Probe Plus, a small car-sized spacecraft will plunge ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 29, 2010 |
5 / 5 (4) |
3
Water on Moon is bad news for China's lunar telescope
The discovery of water on the Moon could affect a telescope that will be installed on China's first lunar lander, scheduled in 2013, a Chinese astronomer was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 20, 2010 |
4 / 5 (4) |
0
CfA will play major role in mission to 'touch' the sun
When NASA's Solar Probe Plus (SPP) launches before the end of the decade, it will carry a suite of cutting-edge scientific instruments. Only one - the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) Investi ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2010 |
5 / 5 (3) |
1
NASA's Magnetospheric Mission Passes Major Milestone
(PhysOrg.com) -- The universe is still an arcane place that scientists know very little about, but a new NASA Solar Terrestrial Probe mission is going to shed light on one especially mysterious event called ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 06, 2010 |
4.2 / 5 (9) |
1
|
SwRI energetic particle instruments selected for Solar Probe Plus mission
NASA selected two instruments led by Southwest Research Institute, which measure energetic particles for the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft, slated to launch by 2018. This first-ever journey into the Sun's outer atmosphere - ca ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 03, 2010 |
5 / 5 (1) |
2
Solar Probe Plus mission to plunge directly into Sun's atmosphere
NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than 2018.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 02, 2010 |
5 / 5 (5) |
6
Land Ho! Huygens Plunged to Titan Surface 5 Years Ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Huygens probe parachuted down to the surface of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon Titan exactly five years ago on Jan. 14, 2005, providing data that scientists on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2010 |
4.7 / 5 (9) |
3
|
Scientists bid adieu to plucky solar probe
US and European scientists were Tuesday bidding farewell to the tenacious solar probe Ulysses which has been recording data around the sun for more than 18 years, four times longer than planned.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 30, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (4) |
1
- Pages: 1 2
