News tagged with van allen belt
Building 45 payloads for balloon mission
Robyn Millan's lab is a little crowded at the moment. It overflows with electronics. And foam. And parachutes and aluminum frames and drills. Based at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, Millan and her students ...
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May 30, 2012 |
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MSU satellite surpasses goal; NASA taps MSU to queue up for another launch
The Montana State University satellite that rode into space on a NASA rocket has now gathered information longer than the historic U.S. satellite it was built to honor, says the director of MSU's Space Science ...
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Feb 28, 2012 |
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THEMIS: 'Singing' electrons help create and destroy 'killer' electrons
Scientists using NASA's fleet of THEMIS spacecraft have discovered how radio waves produced by electrons injected into Earth's near-space environment both generate and remove high-speed "killer" electrons.
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O, Pioneers! (part 2): The derelicts of space
Before the Pioneer 11 spacecraft could venture beyond our solar system, it had to pass through the rings of Saturn. At the time, the rings were not well characterized and some thought the spacecraft could ...
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Mar 06, 2012 |
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O, Pioneers! (Part 1): The motes in God's eye
March 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of the launch of one of the most extraordinary spacecraft ever constructed - Pioneer 10 - the first true deep space probe. The story of the Voyager spacecraft is well ...
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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THEMIS celebrates 5 years of watching aurora and space weather
People still talk about the launch. It was the first – and so far, only – time NASA has launched five satellites at one time. Carefully balanced inside a Delta II rocket, the five THEMIS (short for ...
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Feb 17, 2012 |
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THEMIS satellite sees a great electron escape
(PhysOrg.com) -- When scientists discovered two great swaths of radiation encircling Earth in the 1950s, it spawned over-the-top fears about "killer electrons" and space radiation effects on Earthlings. The ...
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Jan 31, 2012 |
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Video: Phobos-Grunt re-entry animation
When and where will Russia’s Phobos-Grunt satellite crash back to Earth? It’s too early to tell, but the engineers from Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) have put together an animation which recaps what has happened ...
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Dec 30, 2011 |
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Stories of missions past: Early explorers
(PhysOrg.com) -- On September 29, 2011, NASA announced the short list for five potential new "Explorer class" spacecraft. These missions are by definition small and relatively inexpensive, designed to be led ...
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Oct 27, 2011 |
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Firestation in space to open firehose of lightning data
(PhysOrg.com) -- When opportunity knocked, NASA heliophysicist Doug Rowland answered. He and his team recently secured another flight opportunity for a pint-sized instrument studying lightning in Earth's upper ...
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Oct 19, 2011 |
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Researchers prove existence of antiproton radiation belt around Earth
Italian researchers using data from the satellite PAMELA have proven that theories showing there ought to be a ring of antiprotons encircling the Earth due to cosmic rays colliding with nuclei in the upper atmosphere are ...
Aug 05, 2011 |
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Twin ARTEMIS probes to study moon in 3-D
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Sunday, July 17, the moon will acquire its second new companion in less than a month. That's when the second of two probes built by the University of California, Berkeley, and part of NASA's ...
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Jul 13, 2011 |
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School pupils to study space radiation belts
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Van Allen radiation belts are a hazardous environment, full of 'killer' electrons that can be lethal to orbiting satellites. And when those electrons sometimes hit the atmosphere, they ...
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Apr 21, 2011 |
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