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India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft reaches its final orbit

India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft reaches its final orbit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft successfully reached its final operational orbit around the Moon on 12 November 2008. The spacecraft is now circling the Moon at an altitude of about 100 km.


Chandrayaan-1 now in lunar orbit

Chandrayaan-1 now in lunar orbit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chandrayaan-1, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) lunar orbiter, was captured into orbit around the Moon on 8 November. One day later, the spacecraft performed a manoeuvre that ...


Chandrayaan-1 now in lunar transfer trajectory

Chandrayaan-1 now in lunar transfer trajectory

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Yesterday, following a fifth orbit-raising manoeuvre, the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft successfully settled into a trajectory that will take it to the Moon.


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Envisat Images Hurricane Gustav

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 05, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The development and path of Hurricane Gustav is shown via a sequence of satellite images acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 25 August, 28 August, 30 August and ...





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U.S. ITER awards contracts worth $33 million for materials for ITER's largest magnets

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. ITER Project Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded two contracts totaling $33.6 million for 8,270 km of niobium tin strand and 4,795 km of copper strand for the Toroidal Field Conductor, ...


Design chosen for British 1,000 mph car

Design chosen for British 1,000 mph car (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- A British team hoping to be the first to get a car to 1,000 mph (1,610 km/h) has made its final design selection. The six-tonne car, known as the Bloodhound, will be powered by a Eurofighter ...


First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home

Rosetta sees a living planet

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Images and data taken just before closest approach were downloaded this morning, and they show the lights of North America in the night and a glowing Southern Hemisphere.


Mars: Chaotic terrain between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae

Mars: Chaotic terrain between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express flew over the boundary between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae and imaged the region, acquiring spectacular views of the chaotic terrain in the area.


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Ocean's journey towards the center of the Earth

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

A Monash geoscientist and a team of international researchers have discovered the existence of an ocean floor was destroyed 50 to 20 million years ago, proving that New Caledonia and New Zealand are geographically ...


Herschel, Planck cosmic explorers in flight: stunning images from ground and space

Herschel, Planck cosmic explorers in flight: stunning images from ground and space

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stunning images taken from Earth and space show Herschel and Planck in flight on 14 May 2009. The first, taken from Herschel, show the Planck-Sylda composite just after Herschel's separation, ...


Maths Research Tackles Problems of Bike + Car

Maths Research Tackles Problems of Bike + Car

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The efforts to get more people out of cars and on their bikes in the UK could be being hampered by Governments' own transport strategies, claims new research from the University of Derby.


Rosetta

Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic ...


Planck satellite manoeuvre aims at L2 arrival

Planck satellite manoeuvre aims at L2 arrival

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

(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 ...


Coolest spacecraft ever in orbit around L2

Coolest spacecraft ever in orbit around L2

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft ...



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