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Turbopause Rocket

Four rockets launch from Poker Flat Research Range

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Four NASA rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range during a three-hour span on the morning of Feb. 18, 2009. The rockets, carrying payloads that emitted glowing vapor trails that help scientists study ...





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Busy rocket season to launch at Poker Flat Research Range

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A total of eight National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rockets will launch from Poker Flat Research Range in 2009. The rocket season is split into two launch windows. The first launch window opens Jan. 10, ...


HEX2 a success: 4-rocket aurora experiment launches from Poker Flat

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 15, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An experiment called HEX2 that consisted of four NASA suborbital sounding rockets, launched from Poker Flat Research Range during an aurora display over northern Alaska this morning. Each rocket emitted vapor trails in an ...


6 aurora-research rockets to launch from Poker Flat

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 09, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of New Hampshire have experiments ready on the launch rails at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, and another scientist is waiting in New Hampshire ...


Two rockets fly through auroral arc

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

After days of waiting for precise aurora conditions, a team from the University of Iowa finally saw the launch of its two scientific sounding rockets from Poker Flat Research Range. The NASA rockets launched Jan. 29, just ...


Final rocket launches, measures aurora movement

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It's been a long wait, but it was worth it. The Black Brant XII sounding rocket with the CASCADES II experiment launched and flew through an active aurora display March 20 at 3:04 a.m. Alaska Daylight Time. The successful ...


JOULE II rockets launch with success

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 22, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

From Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, four NASA rockets launched into an aurora display over northern Alaska, starting at 3:29 a.m. Alaska Standard Time. Scientists hope to learn more about electrical heating ...


Cards on the table: Low-cost tool spots software security flaws during development process

Technology / Software

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new risk management tool can help software developers identify security vulnerabilities in their programs early in the planning process, effectively solving problems before they exist, simply by having the developers lay ...


Scientists launch rockets to test atmospheric conditions

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Clemson University space physicists have traveled around the world to launch rockets to test atmospheric conditions.


Gambling industry pushes efforts to legalize online betting

Technology / Internet

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Backed by a powerful House member, the online gambling industry is waging a campaign in Congress to legalize Internet betting, saying it will continue regardless of its legal status and can be regulated and taxed if not outlawed. ...


Going for broke

Going for broke

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Natasha Schull recalls how in the late 1990s she began observing people in Las Vegas transfixed for hours at video poker and slot machines. What, she wondered, kept them glued to machines ...



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