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NASA's Jason-1 achieves a one-decade landmark

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Dec. 7, 2001, NASA and the French Space Agency Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) launched the Jason-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., embarking on a planned ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'QB3 Startup In A Box' helps UC entrepreneurs launch companies

Biophysicist Adam Abate showed up seven months late to his new faculty position at UCSF with an unusual excuse: he was busy setting up the technology for a new company based on one of the 10 patents he had ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA invites 150 Twitter followers to lunar launch

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has invited 150 followers of the agency's Twitter accounts to a two-day launch Tweetup Sept. 7-8. The Tweetup is expected to culminate in the launch of the twin moon-bound GRAIL spacecraft ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

GRAIL launch less than one month away

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's twin lunar probes – GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B - completed their final inspections and were weighed one final time at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., on Tuesday. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Dawn spacecraft begins science orbits of Vesta

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiraling towards its first of four intensive science orbits. That initial orbit of the rocky world Vesta begins Aug. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

NASA's twin craft arrive in Florida for moon mission

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's twin lunar probes have arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for a launch in late summer. The two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory spacecraft (Grail) were shipped from ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's two lunar-bound spacecraft, vacuum-packed

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (Grail) spacecraft have completed all assembly and testing prior to shipment to Florida.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Aquarius to illuminate links between salt, climate

When NASA's salt-seeking Aquarius instrument ascends to the heavens this June, the moon above its launch site at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base won't be in the seventh house, and Jupiter's latest alignment ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Studying more than rockets in the 'deep south'

A city that rarely sees snowfall, Huntsville, Ala., was blanketed the evening of Jan. 9 under several inches of snow following a winter storm that also produced a rare "thundersnow" or lightning flashes. This ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Last tango in space

Adding to their unique information from previous tandem missions, ESA’s ERS-2 and Envisat satellites have been paired up again – for the last time. Data from this final duet are generating 3D models ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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