News tagged with scientific instruments

Astronauts making one last house call to Hubble

May 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 2

(AP) -- The Hubble Space Telescope is about to get one last house call. And never before have the risks been higher.

New Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica

Jan 09, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific ...

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NASA Returns to the Moon with Instruments on Indian Spacecraft

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 21, 2008 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Two NASA instruments to map the lunar surface will launch on India's maiden moon voyage. The Moon Mineralogy Mapper will assess mineral resources, and the Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar, or Mini-SAR, will map the polar ...

Secrets Of Stradivarius' unique violin sound revealed, prof says

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Jan 22, 2009 | 4 / 5 (11) | 5

For centuries, violin makers have tried and failed to reproduce the pristine sound of Stradivarius and Guarneri violins, but after 33 years of work put into the project, a Texas A&M University professor is ...

Mars Orbiter Resumes Normal Science Operations

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has fully recovered from an unexpected computer re-set last week and resumed its scientific investigation of Mars.

James Webb Space Telescope Begins to Take Shape at Goddard

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is starting to come together. A major component of the telescope, the Integrated Science Instrument Module structure, recently arrived at NASA Goddard Space ...

Europe all set for lunar mission Chandrayaan-1

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 25, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

Europe is participating in a big way in the Indian Space Agency’s Chandrayaan-1 mission to the Moon, by contributing three instruments. All these instruments have now been delivered, tested and integrated ...

MESSENGER Spacecraft Flies by Mercury

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 30, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Shortly before 5:55 p.m. EDT, MESSENGER skimmed 228 kilometers (141 miles) above the surface of Mercury in its third and final flyby of the planet.

Researchers Wanted: Humans Need Not Apply?

Technology / Computer Sciences

Apr 02, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As science fiction plot lines go, the unintended consequences of yielding tasks too complicated or dangerous for human hands to computers and robots is a popular one. Yet real life scientists ...

Proba-2's journey to Russia marks its first step towards space

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 06, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Proba-2, one of the smallest satellites ESA has ever built for space, is about to leave its Belgian homeland. Its development and testing complete, the satellite is being packed up for the ...

NASA Invites Public to Choose Hubble's Next Discovery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jan 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is giving everyone the opportunity to use the world's most celebrated telescope to explore the heavens and boldly look where the Hubble Space Telescope has never looked before.

Planck first light yields promising results (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 17, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (11) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Planck, ESA's mission to study the early Universe, started surveying the sky regularly from its vantage point at L2 on 13 August. The instruments of ESA's 'time machine' were fine-tuned for ...

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