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Goddard Team Develops New Carriers for ISS

In a partnership that exemplifies the One NASA theme, Goddard Space Flight Center engineers teamed up with the External Payloads Group at Johnson Space Center and the ISS Payload Ground Processing support ...

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Space image: ATV-3 approaches The Station

(Phys.org) -- In this photo taken from the International Space Station, the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) is seen on approach for docking. The unmanned cargo spacecraft ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cognitive researcher designs and builds a real-world modular working tricorder

(PhysOrg.com) -- To say it’s about copying the tricorder from Star Trek, of television and movie fame, is to belittle the ingenuity and thought that has gone into the devices that Peter Jansen has cr ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 13 | with audio podcast weblog

Guns and Androids: Pakistan air force making iPads

(AP) -- Inside a high-security air force complex that builds jet fighters and weapons systems, Pakistan's military is working on the latest addition to its sprawling commercial empire: a homegrown version ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Mars-bound NASA rover carries coin for camera checkup

(PhysOrg.com) -- The camera at the end of the robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has its own calibration target, a smartphone-size plaque that looks like an eye chart supplemented with color chips ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Mars Express observations temporarily suspended

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anomalies in the operation of the solid-state mass memory system on board Mars Express have caused science observations to be temporarily halted. A technical work-around is being investigated ...

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created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Student-built satellite to prepare NASA instrument

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the M-Cubed satellite, built by University of Michigan students, goes into orbit, it will become the first CubeSat to test a NASA instrument for major space missions. It is scheduled ...

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created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

German scientists ready for the hunt on dark energy

The German and Russian partners of the new eROSITA X-ray space observatory have now agreed on how to split the data from the first four years of an all sky survey. This decision was announced today at the ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Microsoft files patent for interchangeable-devices phone

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has filed for a patent featuring slider smartphones designed to also carry interchangeable modules such as game controller, a spare battery or keyboard. The Microsoft patent is entitled "Mobile communication device having multiple, interchangeable second devices." The patent describes Microsoft’s handheld mobile communication device with interchangeable parts. The key ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 15 | with audio podcast weblog

IBM offers concession in EU antitrust case

(AP) -- U.S. computer maker IBM Corp. on Tuesday offered to make it easier for competitors to provide maintenance services for its mainframe computers, a concession to get European regulators to close an antitrust probe.

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created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Final shuttle voyagers conduct countdown practice at Florida launch pad

The “Final Four” shuttle astronauts who will ever voyage to Earth orbit aboard a NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter jetted into the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) this week for their final simulated countdown ...

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created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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