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What will it take to save this blue marble we call Earth?
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 13, 2018
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Living near a star is risky business, and positioning a spacecraft near the sun is a very good way to observe rapidly changing solar activity and deliver early warning of possibly harmful space weather. ESA is now looking ...
Space Exploration
Feb 5, 2018
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Space weather refers to the environmental conditions in space as influenced by solar activity.
Space Exploration
Jan 25, 2018
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Experts at the Air Force Research Laboratory continue to expand the scope of their technological expertise, rising above the Earth's surface to meet the power needs of next generation military spacecraft.
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 4, 2018
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On July 26, 2017, a member of the Expedition 52 crew aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of one of the 16 sunrises they experience every day, as the orbiting laboratory travels around Earth. One of ...
Space Exploration
Aug 1, 2017
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Over the weekend of June 17-18, 2017, engineers on the ground remotely operated the International Space Station's robotic Canadarm2 to extract the Roll Out Solar Array (ROSA) experiment from the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship. ...
Space Exploration
Jun 21, 2017
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The first images from the Solar Ultraviolet Imager or SUVI instrument aboard NOAA's GOES-16 satellite have been successful, capturing a large coronal hole on Jan. 29, 2017.
Space Exploration
Feb 28, 2017
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On January 21, 2017, the GOES-16 Extreme Ultraviolet and X-Ray Irradiance Sensors (EXIS) observed solar flares.
Space Exploration
Feb 6, 2017
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Spacewalking astronauts hooked up fancy new batteries Friday on the International Space Station's sprawling power grid.
Space Exploration
Jan 6, 2017
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ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will be the 11th European to perform a spacewalk when he ventures outside the International Space Station next month.
Space Exploration
Dec 19, 2016
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