Building and delivering an instrument ready for spaceflight in five months was achieved with a little bit of luck, ingenuity, determination and available spare parts. Scientists had to act quickly in order to find a way to ...
Space Exploration
Nov 20, 2013
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The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center here acquired a supercomputer that is the latest step in a long-running weather prediction arms race.
Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2017
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A US court has blocked a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing from buying Russian-made rocket engines, after private rocket operator SpaceX filed a lawsuit protesting the contract.
Space Exploration
May 1, 2014
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For more than a century, scientists have scoured the known universe for signs of extraterrestrial life, an endeavor that has thus far proved fruitless—unless you believe the US government is hiding aliens at a remote base ...
Other
Jul 17, 2019
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US company SpaceX said Monday it had deployed a commercial Thai satellite, in its second successful launch in weeks.
Space Exploration
Jan 7, 2014
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(Phys.org) -- NASA's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) 2010 hurricane study was a multi-aircraft mission with a large cadre of researchers. Two who were principal researchers on several airborne sensors had ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 4, 2012
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The U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's military and civilian computer networks that control everything from electrical ...
Internet
Apr 26, 2013
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Scientists and volunteers tethered in safety gear and ice cleats painstakingly scoured the frozen dirt and ice to see if a glacier had given up any more of its dead before they are swept into a lake and lost to history.
Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2015
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(Phys.org)—NASA has begun its latest airborne hurricane study called the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission. For the first time, NASA will be flying two unmanned Global Hawks, unmanned aerial vehicles, from ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 18, 2012
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NASA's first asteroid sample return spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, fired its thrusters for 30 seconds on Sept. 21 and nudged its trajectory toward Earth. The resulting course correction keeps the vehicle on track to deliver a sample ...
Space Exploration
Oct 17, 2022
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