News tagged with sun shields
UK company to build Sun orbiter
The European Space Agency said on Friday it had awarded a 300-million-euro ($400 million) contract to a British technology firm to build a satellite to examine the Sun from closer up than any before it.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 27, 2012 |
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Image: Opportunity's heat shield
This image from 2005 shows the remains of the heat shield from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, broken into two key pieces, the main piece on the left side and a broken-off flank piece near the middle ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2011 |
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UD researcher on project team for NASA's first visit to the sun
A University of Delaware researcher is helping to design instruments for a robotic space probe that will go where no other has gone before: the sun.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 06, 2010 |
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CfA will play major role in mission to 'touch' the sun
When NASA's Solar Probe Plus (SPP) launches before the end of the decade, it will carry a suite of cutting-edge scientific instruments. Only one - the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) Investi ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2010 |
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If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with NASA's Coolest Space Telescope
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years. On about May 12, give or take a week or so, the observatory is predicted ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 05, 2009 |
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