News tagged with small satellites
Celestial bauble intrigues astronomers
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the holiday season in full swing, a new image from an assembly of telescopes has revealed an unusual cosmic ornament. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton have ...
Dec 20, 2011 |
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NASA's Nanosail-D 'sails' home -- mission complete
After spending more than 240 days "sailing" around the Earth, NASA's NanoSail-D -- a nanosatellite that deployed NASA's first-ever solar sail in low-Earth orbit -- has successfully completed its Earth orbiting ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Close encounters of the galactic kind
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have used a large survey to test a prediction that close encounters between galaxies can trigger the rapid growth of supermassive black holes. Key to this work was Chandra's unique ...
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Iran to put a monkey into space: report
Iran plans to send a live monkey into space in the summer, the country's top space official said after the launch of the Rassad-1 satellite, state television reported on its website on Thursday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 16, 2011 |
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Japan to develop cheap satellite for emerging markets
Japan is developing a low-cost surveillance satellite to aid disaster relief and other purposes as it looks to expand its reach into emerging markets, government and corporate officials said Friday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2010 |
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NASA’s FASTSAT Satellite Arrives at Kodiak, Alaska, Launch Complex
NASA's first microsatellite designed to create a capability that increases opportunities for secondary, scientific and technology payloads, or rideshares, to be flown at lower cost than before has arrived at Kodiak Island, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Tiny Satellites for Big Science
The shrinking technology of cell phones, laptops and cameras are now leading to palm-sized satellites. Easy to build and affordable, these small satellites offer a new way to conduct astrobiology research. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Nanosatellite to Study Antifungal Drug Effectiveness in Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is preparing to fly a small satellite about the size of a loaf of bread that could help scientists better understand how effectively drugs work in space. The nanosatellite, known as PharmaSat, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 28, 2009 |
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