Sounding rocket takes a second look at the Sun
Tom Woods knows about space gunk.
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How to hunt a giant sloth—according to ancient human footprints
Rearing on its hind legs, the giant ground sloth would have been a formidable prey for anyone, let alone humans without modern weapons. Tightly muscled, angry and swinging its fore legs tipped with wolverine-like claws, it ...
Archaeology
Apr 26, 2018
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Trump approves Keystone XL pipeline, hails 'great day' for jobs
True to his pledge, President Donald Trump gave final approval on Friday for TransCanada to build the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, overriding environmental concerns in favor of boosting jobs and energy supply.
Environment
Mar 24, 2017
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NASA's TDRS-M space communications satellite begins final testing
The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) project has begun final testing on a new satellite that will replenish NASA's Space Network. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, ...
Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2017
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Sandia's new vibration table promises different ways of testing
It took decades for technology to catch up with the math David Smallwood worked out to control vibration table shakers.
Engineering
Jul 22, 2015
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Hi-tech tracking tags expand aquatic animal research opportunities, collaborations
Advances in acoustic and satellite technologies are allowing researchers to track animals large and small across great distances, even in challenging ocean environments, leading to significant new knowledge about the behavior, ...
Ecology
Jun 16, 2015
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How to capture 1,500 solar images in a five minute flight
Quick: how do you aim an instrument at the Sun from a moving rocket on a fifteen minute suborbital flight?
Space Exploration
Nov 7, 2014
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CHESS rocket to study birthplace of stars
Update - May 27, 2014: NASA successfully launched the Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph, or CHESS, payload aboard a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket at 3:35 a.m. EDT on May 24, 2014, from the ...
Astronomy
May 28, 2014
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Sounding rocket to calibrate NASA's SDO instrument
NASA will conduct a sounding rocket launch at 2 p.m. EDT, Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico carrying an experiment to support the calibration of the EUV Variability Experiment, or EVE, ...
Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2013
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Sounding rocket to study active regions on the sun
(Phys.org) —At NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., a sounding rocket is being readied for flight. Due to launch on Aug. 8, 2013, the VERIS rocket, short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, will ...
Space Exploration
Aug 2, 2013
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