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NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to Florida

NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to Florida

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are getting ready to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The mission, scheduled to launch ...





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Software coordinates 19 mirrors, focuses James Webb Space Telescope

Software coordinates 19 mirrors, focuses James Webb Space Telescope

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 24, 2007 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Scientists and engineers have created and successfully tested a set of algorithms and software programs which are designed to enable the 19 individual mirrors comprising NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope ...


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Nothing But Net: The Physics of Free-Throw Shooting

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pay attention, Shaq: Two North Carolina State University engineers have figured out the best way to shoot a free throw - a frequently underappreciated skill that gets more important as the ...


Probing Question: How do dimples make golf balls travel farther?

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 21, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (19) | comments 0

A golfer's worst enemy may be divots, but his or her best friend may be dimples -- the dimples on a golf ball that send it sailing farther down the fairway.


NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Baked and Ready for More Tests

NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Baked and Ready for More Tests

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test.


Innovative avionics enable search for habitable planets

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The search for habitable planets continues with the March 6 launch of the Kepler spacecraft, the latest in NASA's series of low cost, highly focused Discovery missions. Kepler, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., ...


Research in aircraft control systems and robotics helps improve flight safety

Research in aircraft control systems and robotics helps improve flight safety

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- At first blush, it may not seem like robots and aircraft control systems have anything in common. When you put them together, however, you arrive at the core of Guangjun Liu’s unique research ...


Hollow spheres made of metal

Hollow spheres made of metal

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Producing metallic hollow spheres is complicated: It has not yet been possible to make the small sizes required for new high-tech applications. Now for the first time researchers have manufactured ground hollow ...


Crushing cigarettes in a virtual reality environment reduces tobacco addiction

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smokers who crushed computer-simulated cigarettes as part of a psychosocial treatment program in a virtual reality environment had significantly reduced nicotine dependence and higher rates of tobacco abstinence than smokers ...


New Set of High-Resolution Mars Images Online

New Set of High-Resolution Mars Images Online

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Thousands of image products from 233 recent telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a diversity of surface shapes and textures on Mars.


Deep Impact craft may get second mission

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created Jul 05, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists were evaluating Tuesday whether the Deep Impact Flyby spacecraft is capable of embarking on a second comet interception.



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