News tagged with flight dynamics

ONR-Funded smartphone app exceeds 33,000 downloads in first 3 weeks

A mobile phone app that teaches players about flight dynamics has been downloaded more than 10,000 times a week, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), which funded the technology, announced on Aug. 2.

Technology / Software

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MILA tracks its last launch and landing

(PhysOrg.com) -- With its beginnings rooted deeply in the historic days of Apollo, the MILA Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network Station has played a key role throughout the 30 years of the Space Shuttle ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fingernail-sized satellites depart on Endeavor's last run

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of Cornell-developed, fingernail-sized satellites may travel to Saturn within the next decade, and as they flutter down through its atmosphere, they will collect data about chemistry, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Researchers build flying robotic 'tree helicopter' (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many trees disperse their seeds by releasing "helicopters," those single-winged seeds that are also called "samaras." As these seeds fall to the ground, their wing causes them to swirl and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (36) | comments 15 | with audio podcast feature

Starling flocks fly like a single entity (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- An animal group such as a school of fish or a flock of starlings can seem like a single entity governed by a collective mind. A new mathematical analysis of flight dynamics in flocks of starlings ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Planck satellite manoeuvre aims at L2 arrival

(PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning today, ESA's Planck satellite will carry out a critical mid-course manoeuvre that will place the satellite on its final trajectory for arrival at L2, the second Lagrange point of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0