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'Space Cube' could be world's smallest PC
Aug 28, 2008 |
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Measuring just 2 inches by 2 inches, the Space Cube is roughly the size of a large die. However, the cube is actually a tiny PC, developed by the Shimafuji Corporation in Japan.
Aussie ingenuity helps NASA search for new planets
Mar 23, 2005 |
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CSIRO's success with a new manufacturing technique for a piece of astrometry equipment is likely to help American scientists detect planets in our galaxy and beyond. CSIRO Industrial Physics has mastered the ...
Under pressure, vanadium won't turn down the volume
Feb 20, 2007 |
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Scientists at Carnegie’s Geophysical Laboratory have discovered a new type of phase transition—a change from one form to another—in vanadium, a metal that is commonly added to steel to make it harder and more durable. Under ...
ESA preparing 'sugar-cube' gyro sensors for future missions
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 09, 2009 |
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One of ESA's future Earth observation missions will monitor its orientation in space with the help of the smallest gyro ever flown by the Agency. Now being tested, the sugar cube-sized device at the heart ...
Single rocket to carry 6 'private' satellites
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 19, 2009 |
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An H-2A rocket carrying six small satellites developed by universities and private-sector companies will be launched Wednesday from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
The day LISA Pathfinder hung in the balance
Oct 11, 2006 |
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At the core of ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission sit two small hearts. Each is a cube, just 5 centimetres across. Together they will allow LISA Pathfinder to lay the foundations for future space-based measurements ...
Researchers and students to develop small CubeSat satellites
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 01, 2008 |
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A satellite about the size of a loaf of bread will be designed and built at the University of Michigan and deployed to study space weather, thanks to a new grant from the National Science Foundation.
Kentucky to launch state satellite
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 27, 2006 |
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Kentucky's state universities are planning to launch the first state satellite next year.
Russia: no space for space tourists
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A top Russian space official says there is no space for tourists wishing to fly to the International Space Station.
Chip-scale refrigerators cool bulk objects
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Apr 21, 2005 |
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Chip-scale refrigerators capable of reaching temperatures as low as 100 milliKelvin have been used to cool bulk objects for the first time, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...
Astronauts get extra moving time at space station
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The astronauts aboard the shuttle-station complex are getting some extra moving time.
NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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The Materials on the International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 7, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), launched aboard STS-129 on November, 16, for transport to the International ...
NASA: Floating 'junk' no threat to space station
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NASA says a piece of old space junk that it's been tracking for a few days is no threat to the International Space Station.
Hypercubes Could Be Building Blocks of Nanocomputers
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Multi-dimensional structures called hypercubes may act as the building blocks for tomorrow’s nanocomputers – machines made of such tiny elements that they are dominated not by forces that we’re familiar with ...
Japan's 'space beer' sparkles among drinkers
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 07, 2009 |
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A Japanese brewer has come up with a beer that's truly out of this world -- one made with barley grown from a line of seeds that once orbited the Earth aboard the International Space Station.
