News tagged with space flight
Mankind must abandon earth or face extinction: Hawking
Mankind's only chance of long-term survival lies in colonising space, as humans drain Earth of resources and face a terrifying array of new threats, warned British scientist Stephen Hawking on Monday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 09, 2010 |
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Private rocket launch successful on maiden flight (Update 3)
A privately owned rocket successfully blasted off on its first flight, marking a significant milestone for the space industry in the race to develop commercial carriers.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 04, 2010 |
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SpaceX private rocket blasts off for space station (Update)
A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 22, 2012 |
4.9 / 5 (24) |
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NASA OKs Feb. launch of private space station trip
A private California company will attempt the first-ever commercial cargo run to the International Space Station in February.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 09, 2011 |
4.9 / 5 (22) |
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Space hotel taking bookings for 2012 opening
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first orbiting space hotel is on track to open for its first customers in 2012, but hurry, as bookings are filling fast.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 05, 2009 |
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NASA shows off new algae farming technique for making biofuel
(Phys.org) -- NASA is clearly looking far into the future for a way to handle both human waste and a need for fuel on either long space flights or when attempting to colonize another planet. To that end, they’ve ...
Apr 16, 2012 |
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Eye of Gaia: Billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way
The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from 106 separate electronic detectors. The resulting "billion-pixel array" will serve as the super-sensitive ...
Jul 06, 2011 |
4.9 / 5 (16) |
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Maiden flight for Virgin Galactic's 'SpaceShipTwo' (Update)
Virgin Galactic's experimental SpaceshipTwo (SS2), an aircraft designed to one day carry paying customers into space, had its maiden flight in the California desert Monday, company officials announced.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 22, 2010 |
4.6 / 5 (16) |
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Jeff Bezos' spaceship fails during test flight
An unmanned spacecraft bankrolled by Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos failed during a recent test flight.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 03, 2011 |
3.9 / 5 (18) |
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SpaceX plans November test flight to space station
California-based rocket maker SpaceX said that it will make a test flight in late November to the International Space Station, now that NASA has retired its space shuttle program.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 16, 2011 |
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Fingernail-sized satellites depart on Endeavor's last run
(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of Cornell-developed, fingernail-sized satellites may travel to Saturn within the next decade, and as they flutter down through its atmosphere, they will collect data about chemistry, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 28, 2011 |
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Russia launches giant telescope in deep space return
Russia on Monday launched into space its Spektr-R radio telescope planned to be the most powerful ever, the first deep space observatory sent up by Moscow in a quarter of a century.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2011 |
5 / 5 (11) |
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Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st (Update 2)
The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule made a historic arrival at the International Space Station on Friday, triumphantly captured by astronauts wielding a giant robot arm.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 25, 2012 |
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NASA preparing to launch NuSTAR, its newest X-ray eyes
(Phys.org) -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. The mission will study everything ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 30, 2012 |
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New European rocket lifts off on maiden flight
Europe on Monday successfully launched a new lightweight rocket carrying a test payload, culminating a more than 12-year quest to master the entire range of space launchers.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2012 |
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Spaceflight
Spaceflight is the use of space technology to achieve the flight of spacecraft into and through outer space.
Spaceflight is used in space exploration, and also in commercial activities like space tourism and satellite telecommunications. Additional non-commercial uses of spaceflight include space observatories, reconnaissance satellites and other earth observation satellites.
A spaceflight typically begins with a rocket launch, which provides the initial thrust to overcome the force of gravity and propels the spacecraft from the surface of the Earth. Once in space, the motion of a spacecraft -- both when unpropelled and when under propulsion -- is covered by the area of study called astrodynamics. Some spacecraft remain in space indefinitely, some disintegrate during atmospheric reentry, and others reach a planetary or lunar surface for landing or impact.
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