Photographer captures an ISS transit of a solar prominence
When you're Thierry Legault and you want to challenge yourself, the bar is set pretty high.
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Sep 2, 2015
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News tagged with spy satellite
Russia 'busts satellite spy ring': space commander
Russia has uncovered a group of spy satellites, the head of its space command said in a film broadcast Sunday, which warned of "enemy" satellites that could masquerade as space junk.
Space Exploration
Apr 12, 2015
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Japan launches replacement spy satellite
Japan on Thursday successfully launched a replacement spy satellite, its aerospace agency said, as an existing device comes to the end of its working life.
Space Exploration
Mar 26, 2015
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Experts: Mystery fireball was Russian satellite
People from New Mexico to Montana saw the bright object break apart as it moved slowly northward across the night sky. Witnesses described it as three "rocks" with glowing red and orange streaks.
Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2014
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Air Force launches spy satellite from Florida
The Air Force has launched a new spy satellite.
Space Exploration
Apr 10, 2014
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East Antarctic Ice Sheet could be more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought
The world's largest ice sheet could be more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than previously thought, according to new research from Durham University.
Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2013
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The day NASA's Fermi dodged a 1.5-ton bullet (w/ video)
(Phys.org) —NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, checked her email ...
Space Exploration
May 1, 2013
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Japan launching spy satellite to monitor North Korea
Japan is to launch a new spy satellite on Sunday to strengthen its monitoring capabilities amid concern that North Korea may carry out more missile and nuclear tests.
Space Exploration
Jan 23, 2013
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CINEMA among tiny CubeSats to be launched Aug. 2
(Phys.org) -- Eleven tiny satellites called CubeSats will accompany a spy satellite into Earth orbit on Thursday, Aug. 2, inaugurating a new type of inexpensive, modular nanosatellite designed to piggyback aboard other NASA ...
Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2012
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Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed
For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.
Space Exploration
Dec 25, 2011
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