Space station dodges Chinese space junk
The International Space Station is out of harm's way after flying higher to avoid space junk.
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2014
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Tech execs running the commercial space race
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company is reeling from the loss of SpaceShipTwo, which crashed in California's Mojave desert on Friday, killing one of its pilots and seriously injuring the other. Branson, a billionaire ...
Space Exploration
Nov 2, 2014
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Space station supply launch called off in Virginia
A space station delivery mission was called off Monday, just hours after the orbiting lab had to sidestep a piece of treacherous junk.
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2014
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Cracker-sized satellites launch into orbit
(Phys.org) —After years of planning and several last-minute delays, about 100 Cornell-developed mini satellites demonstrating space flight at its simplest have launched into orbit and are now circling Earth.
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2014
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Cleaning up space debris with sailing satellites
Since the birth of space flight in 1957, the number of man-made objects orbiting the Earth has grown every year. There are now more than 15,000 such objects larger than 10cm, at least those that we know of. Even very small ...
Space Exploration
Feb 3, 2014
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The experts behind Gaia's arrival at nothingness
With a final, modest, thruster burn yesterday afternoon, ESA's billion-star surveyor finalised its entry into orbit around 'L2', a virtual point far out in space. But how do you orbit nothing? And who can show you how to ...
Space Exploration
Jan 16, 2014
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For our future in space, China must aim further than the Moon
A famous picture in the English edition of Newton's "Principia" shows cannon balls being fired from the top of a mountain. If they go fast enough, their trajectory curves downward no more steeply than the Earth curves away ...
Space Exploration
Dec 19, 2013
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ESA's Cluster satellites in closest-ever 'dance in space'
(Phys.org) —Since 2000, the four identical satellites of the Cluster quartet have been probing Earth's magnetosphere in three dimensions. This week, two of them made their closest-ever approach, just 4 km, enabling valuable ...
Space Exploration
Sep 20, 2013
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NASA, Orbital Sciences poised for Wednesday mission to ISS
Orbital Sciences Corp. on Wednesday launches the test flight of an unmanned rocket to the International Space Station, as NASA forges ahead with its plan to privatize US space missions.
Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2013
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Where do astronauts go when they need 'to go?'
Alan Shepard became the first American to fly in space on May 5, 1961. Although NASA engineers had put considerable planning into his mission, dubbed Freedom 7, noticeably missing from this extensive preparation was a way ...
Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2013
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