Routine radio-frequency testing of moon-bound Orion spacecraft begins
Testing one, two and now, three.
Space Exploration
Mar 4, 2020
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Coronal mass ejection headed toward Mercury and Venus
On July 1, 2013, at 6:09 p.m. EDT, the sun erupted with a coronal mass ejection, or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can affect electronic systems in satellites. Experimental ...
Space Exploration
Jul 2, 2013
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Video: OPS-SAT, the flying laboratory
On 17 December, ESA will launch a first-of-its-kind space laboratory, OPS-SAT. The small, low-cost test satellite has been specifically designed for operational experiments in space, and includes the most powerful flight ...
Space Exploration
Dec 13, 2019
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NASA's robotic prospectors are helping scientists understand what asteroids are made of, setting the stage for mining
The cars, cellphones, computers and televisions that people in the U.S. use every day require metals like copper, cobalt and platinum to build. Demand from the electronics industry for these metals is only rising, and companies ...
Planetary Sciences
Nov 3, 2023
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What we're hoping to learn from the magnetic readings of Cassini's final orbits
It was a proud but sad moment when NASA announced that mission control had lost the signal from the Cassini spacecraft on September 15. As it takes the signal over an hour to travel from Saturn to Earth, this meant that the ...
Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2017
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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) Investigation - will directly ...
Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2010
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NASA sees three coronal mass ejections in two days
On April 20, 2013, at 2:54 a.m. EDT, the sun erupted with a coronal mass ejection (CME), a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can affect electronic systems in satellites. Experimental ...
Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2013
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Cluster turns the invisible into the visible
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cluster has spent a decade revealing previously hidden interactions between the Sun and Earth. Its studies have uncovered secrets of aurora, solar storms, and given us insight into fundamental processes ...
Space Exploration
Sep 2, 2010
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Saturn to shed its spooky spokes for summer
As Saturn steadily moves along its 29.7-year-long orbit toward summertime in its northern hemisphere NASA's Cassini spacecraft is along for the ride, giving astronomers a front-row seat to seasonal changes taking place on ...
Space Exploration
Mar 13, 2013
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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 are busy building ...
Space Exploration
May 30, 2012
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