News tagged with space orbit
Largest Ring Around Saturn Discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn -- by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings.
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UK and European space agencies give a go for Skylon spaceplane
After 30 years of development, the UK and European space agencies have given a go for the Skylon Spaceplane.
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May 26, 2011 |
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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 |
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Scots engineers prove space pioneer's 25-year-old theory
When American space pioneer, Dr Robert L Forward, proposed in 1984 a way of greatly improving satellite telecommunications using a new family of orbits, some claimed it was impossible.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 26, 2010 |
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NASA studying ways to make 'tractor beams' a reality
Tractor beams -- the ability to trap and move objects using laser light -- are the stuff of science fiction, but a team of NASA scientists has won funding to study the concept for remotely capturing planetary ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Gravity wells could provide 'parking lots' for spaceships
Nature has provided five huge rest stops far out in space for the convenience of spacecraft traveling from Earth. Some NASA folks call them "parking lots" in space.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Newfangled space-propulsion technology could help clean up Earth orbit
(Phys.org) -- Some of the most valuable “real estate” for humans isn’t on Earth at all but rather above the planet’s atmosphere, where all manner of human-made objects orbit. The problem ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Engineers fight for stranded Mars probe after 'sign of life' (Update)
Engineers fought desperately on Wednesday to save Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft after the Martian probe sent "a first sign of life" more than two weeks after being stranded in orbit.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2011 |
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China lays out five-year space plans
China said Thursday cleaner fuel will power its next-generation rockets, which will launch heavy cargoes into space, bringing nearer plans to build a space station and put a man on the moon.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 29, 2011 |
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Japan probe overshoots Venus, heads toward sun
A Japanese probe to Venus failed to reach orbit Wednesday and was captured by the sun's gravitational pull in a setback to Japan's shoestring space program, which will have to wait another six years to try again. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 08, 2010 |
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Study: Earth shares its orbit with tiny asteroid
(AP) -- Like a poodle on a leash, a tiny asteroid runs ahead of Earth on the planet's yearlong strolls around the sun, scientists report.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 27, 2011 |
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New US satellite to monitor debris in Earth orbit
(AP) -- A new U.S. Air Force satellite will provide the first full-time, space-based surveillance of hundreds of satellites and thousands of pieces of debris that could crash into American and allied assets ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2010 |
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to Help Astronauts Survive in Infinity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Space seems exotic, forbidding, and remote, but imagine trying to survive winter without a heated shelter or warm clothing. Our ancestors developed these technologies because they needed room ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2009 |
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Japanese space probe Hayabusa close to home
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hayabusa, the Japanese space probe launched in 2003, is returning home from its five-billion-kilometer round-trip journey to collect samples from the asteroid 25143 Itokawa.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 08, 2010 |
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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 |
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