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Astronauts to blast off to expanded space station
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May 26, 2009 |
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A Belgian, a Canadian and a Russian blast off for the International Space Station on Wednesday as Russia steps up its rocket launches to support a doubling of the station's crew.
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ANDE-2 satellite deployed from Space Shuttle Endeavour
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Aug 05, 2009 |
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The Naval Research Laboratory's satellite suite, the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment 2 (ANDE-2), was deployed from NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 30, 2009.
GOCE launch: Mapping the Earth’s gravity as never before
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Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA is about to launch the most sophisticated of Earth Observation satellites to investigate the Earth’s gravitational field with unprecedented resolution and accuracy.
Coolest spacecraft ever in orbit around L2
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Jul 03, 2009 |
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(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 ...
GOCE delivering data for best gravity map ever (w/ Video)
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Following the launch and in-orbit testing of the most sophisticated gravity mission ever built, ESA’s GOCE satellite is now in ‘measurement mode’, mapping tiny variations in Earth’s gravity ...
Galileo to support global search and rescue
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Aug 09, 2007 |
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The detection of emergency beacons will be greatly improved by the introduction of Europe's satellite positioning system, Galileo. The Galileo satellites will carry transponders to relay distress signals to ...
Naval Research Laboratory's ANDE-2 launched aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour
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Jul 17, 2009 |
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The Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL's) satellite suite, the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment 2 (ANDE-2), launched aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 15, 2009. The ANDE-2 satellite suite ...
GOCE Earth explorer satellite to look at the Earth's surface and core
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Aug 22, 2008 |
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The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated mission ever to investigate the Earth's gravitational field and to map the reference shape of our planet – the geoid - with unprecedented resolution and ...
Space debris: Europe to set up monitor
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Apr 02, 2009 |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes to start monitoring orbital debris within the next few years, an official said Thursday at the close of the largest-ever conference on a worsening space peril.
NASA spacecraft ready to explore outer solar system
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Oct 06, 2008 |
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The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch Oct. 19. The two-year mission will begin from ...
Scientists discover a nearly Earth-sized planet (Update)
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Exoplanet researcher Michel Mayor announces the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet, "e," in the system Gliese 581, is only about twice the mass of our Earth. The ...
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