The armed forces are now gearing up to storm the final frontier of space. India's first dedicated military satellite, a naval communications one, will finally be up and running in the sky early next year. The naval satellite's launch by ISRO will be followed by separate IAF and Army ones in 2011-2012...
Orbital elements: 2009 HW77 Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 10.61568 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00991448 Peri. 140.77151 -0.95741229 +0.16533430 a 21.4596589 Node 50.42554 -0.27327049 -0.78351940 e 0.4189427 Incl. 17.88353 +0.09319312 -0.59896738 P 99.41 H 9.8 G 0.15 U 4 [url=http://www.cfa...
Ion Drive: Improved Electric Propulsion Could Boost Lifetimes for Commercial, Government and Military Satellites Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a $6.5 million grant to develop improved components that will boost the efficiency of electric propulsion systems tha...
Title: The Solar-Type Contact Binary BX Pegasi Revisited Authors: Jae Woo Lee, Seung-Lee Kim, Chung-Uk Lee, Jae-Hyuck Youn We present the results of new CCD photometry for the contact binary BX Peg, made during three successive months beginning on September 2008. As do historical light curves, o...
Defying Gravity is just what you never knew you needed - a saucy formulaic melodramatic soap ... in space. Ostensibly it is part-based on Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets, a 2004 BBC fictional documentary series that followed a small group of astronauts on a research mission. But it would be more...
NEW MATERIAL COULD EFFICIENTLY POWER TINY GENERATORS To power a very small device like a pacemaker or a transistor, you need an even smaller generator. The components that operate the generator are smaller yet, and the efficiency of those foundational components is critical to the performance of...
Orbital elements: 2009 UJ14 Earth MOID = 0.4304 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 25.29453 (2000.0) P Q n 0.15958632 Peri. 102.59582 +0.43376621 +0.79246488 a 3.3661925 Node 209.77472 -0.62789765 +0.60715280 e 0.6891141 Incl. 59.70423 +0.64621314 +0.05800768 P 6.18 H 20.4 G 0.15 U 8 [...
Orbital elements: 2008 GE1 Earth MOID = 0.2736 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 33.19587 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46435400 Peri. 312.85431 +0.12471702 -0.98810892 a 1.6515938 Node 129.75780 +0.94102270 +0.08906845 e 0.2477711 Incl. 6.71751 +0.31451860 +0.12532985 P 2.12 H 19.3 G 0.15 U 4 [ur...
Space exploration: towards a common EU-ESA vision Ministers from the 29 European Space Agency and European Union Member States will meet in Prague on 23 October for the 1st EU-ESA International Conference on Human Space Exploration, to prepare a roadmap leading to the definition of a common visio...
Typhoon Lupit is forecast to make landfall in the Philippines probability for CAT 1 or above is 50% in about 40 hours probability for TS is 80% in about 40 hours
Orbital elements: 2009 TD17 Earth MOID = 0.0002 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 122.99042 (2000.0) P Q n 0.82366316 Peri. 81.92972 +0.51904367 +0.85474729 a 1.1271186 Node 219.33844 -0.78474653 +0.47613847 e 0.2200830 Incl. 0.07736 -0.33877213 +0.20663790 P 1.20 H 27.7 G 0.15 U 6 [u...
Naples will be the city that will host in 2012 the IAC (International Astronautical Congress), one of the most important events in the world of aerospace research. The Minister of Education, University and Research Mariastella Gelmini had strongly supported the candidacy of Italy as host countr...
