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ESA's comet chaser mission Rosetta took these infrared and visible images of Earth and the Moon, during the Earth fly-by of 4/5 March 2005 while on its way to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. [img]http://img.photobucket.co...
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Swarm mission
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In the ESA Swarm mission in 2010, GPS antennas will measure the Earths magnetic field with extreme accuracy. Factors such as the right position on the satellite are particularly crucial. A new software program can simulate complex antenna systems, saving time and money. They are due to swarm out in...
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EBEX balloon
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The EBEX balloon was launched on the 11th June 2009. EBEX launch 11 Click to Play | View Details EBEX Launch, 6/11/09 Click to Play | View Details EBEX is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the intensity and polarisation of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Measurements of th...
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BeiDou-2 (Compass) satellites
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At least four new BeiDou-2 (Compass) satellites will be launched in 2009 by the team at the China Satellite Navigation Project Center. And a Russian launch vehicle will carry a Chinese micro-satellite into space in late 2009. If everything goes according to plan, Yinghuo-1, China's first Mars pro...
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Fengyun-4 (FY-4) satellite
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China plans to launch the first weather satellite of the Fengyun-4 (FY-4) series, the country's second-generation geostationary meteorological satellites, around 2013. Read more
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X-plane
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NASA Wind Tunnel Tests Lockheed Martin's X-Plane Design for a Quieter Supersonic Jet Supersonic passenger airplanes are another step closer to reality as NASA and Lockheed Martin begin the first high-speed wind tunnel tests for the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) X-plane preliminary des...
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Extreme Universe Space Observatory
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Space observatory's detector technology goes into single-molecule imaging Since 1999, Yoshiyuki Takizawa has been working on the Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO), an international project to develop a super wide-field telescope capable of observing large volumes of Earth's atmos...
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International X-ray Observatory
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At a bilateral ESA-NASA meeting held on 15-16 July, 2008, David Southwood, the ESA Director for the Science and Robotic Exploration Program, and Ed Weiler, the NASA Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate, endorsed a plan to establish an International X-ray Observatory (IXO...
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Apollo 1 capsule
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NASA has moved the Apollo 1 capsule and related materials approximately 90 feet to a newer, environmentally-controlled warehouse at NASA's Langley Research Centre in Hampton, Va., on Saturday, Feb. 17.
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At Esrange, the Aerospace Operation Facility of the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), preparations are carried out for a Texus sounding rocket launch planned for 30 November. This will be the first launch from Esrange using the new Brazilian sounding rocket VSB-30, replacing the [url=ht...
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SUNRISE balloon
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The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up -- and behind the whole thing are the magnetic fields, the engines of it all. The SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope, a coll...
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Using a computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a physicist at UC Riverside, has predicted when the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will cross the termination shock, the spherical shell around the solar system that marks where the solar wind slows down to subsonic speed. According to W...
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The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) has announced that its teammate L-3 Communications Integrated Systems has completed all major physical modifications required for initial flight-testing of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
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Landsat's TIRS Instrument Comes Out of First Round of Thermal Vacuum Testing The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) that will fly on the next Landsat satellite came out of its first round of thermal vacuum testing Tuesday, October 4 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The two-month t...
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