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WISE Is Chilling Out
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Nov 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...
Supercooled and supersized technologies aboard Herschel and Planck
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May 11, 2009 |
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Away from sunlight it can get very cold in space, but not cold enough for the Herschel and Planck missions, which ESA and European industry have equipped with state-of-the-art refrigeration systems to make ...
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Herschel and Planck to lift off on 6 May
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Apr 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With the additional checks related to the flight worthiness of the Herschel telescope now completed, ESA and Arianespace have set the launch date of Herschel and Planck for 6 May 2009.
Herschel spacecraft assembly complete
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 23, 2008 |
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The mirror of the Herschel telescope has now been assembled with the payload and service module, completing the spacecraft structure - an important milestone in the days following through to launch.
The world's largest fusion experiment of the stellarator type taking shape
Mar 13, 2008 |
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The first milestone in the successive assembly of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at the Greifswald branch of Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP), Germany, has been reached on schedule with the ...
Herschel's heart and brain mated
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Sep 19, 2007 |
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Herschel, Europe’s infrared space observatory is being presented to the media today in a joint press event by ESA and Astrium in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Two of the satellite’s most fundamental modules, its ...
The new 'look' of superconductivity
Jul 06, 2007 |
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Like the surface motif of a bubble bath, the spatial distribution of a magnetic field penetrating a superconductor can exhibit an intricate, foam-like structure. Ruslan Prozorov at the U.S. Department of ...
Reaching the parts -- with Herschel and SPIRE
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Apr 03, 2007 |
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A UK-led instrument which will study a previously unexplored part of the Universe leaves the UK this week to be installed on the European Space Agency's Herschel spacecraft in Germany.
Compact Muon Solenoid magnet reaches full field
Sep 13, 2006 |
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Scientists of the U.S. Department of Energy/Office of Science's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and collaborators of the US/CMS project have joined colleagues from around the world in announcing that ...
Reflections In The World's Largest Space Mirror
Sep 26, 2005 |
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Much of our Universe has long remained invisible. Our eyes perceive only a fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum. Seeing at infrared wavelengths, for instance, allows astronomers to explore hidden celestial objects and ...
Scientists put the squeeze on electron spins
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Jun 16, 2005 |
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University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a novel method for controlling and measuring electron spins in semiconductor crystals of GaAs (gallium arsenide). The work suggests an a ...
Nanomechanical device bridges classic and quantum physics
Feb 09, 2005 |
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Nanotechnology leapt into the realm of quantum mechanics this past winter when an antenna-like sliver of silicon one-tenth the width of a human hair oscillated in a lab in a Boston University basement. With two sets of protrusions, ...
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