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Ariane 5 Launches Over Nine Tonne To GEO Transfer Orbit
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Nov 15, 2007Ariane 5 achieved another heavy-lift record tonight (November 14), successfully placing a U.K. military relay platform and Brazil's new multi-mission telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. The mission's total payload delivery weight was 9,535 kg., which included 8,735 kg. For the two satellites, along with the associated installation/interface hardware and Ariane's SYLD ... more Rover Finds Way To Brush Rock Surfaces Despite Setbacks 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2007Opportunity is still parked in front of the rock layer known as "Smith" inside Victoria Crater. The rover has now lost two encoders that operate motors on the rock abrasion tool during the grinding and brushing of surfaces. Science team members and engineers have been working in test beds and computer sequencing rooms to devise creative ways of using the rock abrasion tool without the grind and ... more Customized Telemetry System For The James Webb Space Telescope Successful 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 16, 2007Once it launches in 2013, the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to communicate with the Earth thanks to a customized and modified "off-the-shelf" system that has been recently and successfully tested by Northrop Grumman Corporation, the prime contractor on the telescope. The customized off-the-shelf computer system will be used to send commands to the Webb telescope and collect its telemet ... more NASA Tests Lunar Habitat In Extreme Antarctic Environment 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2007NASA will use the cold, harsh, isolated landscape of Antarctica to test one of its concepts for astronaut housing on the moon. The agency is sending a prototype inflatable habitat to Antarctica to see how it stands up during a year of use. Agency officials viewed the habitat Wednesday at ILC Dover in Frederica, Del., as it was inflated one last time before being packed and shipped to Antarctica ... more Groundbreaking Signals Start Of NASA Constellation Flight Tests 
Las Cruces NM (SPX) Nov 15, 2007With less than a year until flight tests of NASA's Constellation Program, work is under way on a launch pad that will host the first of those tests. Workers broke ground on a pad where the agency will test a launch abort system for the new Orion spacecraft at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, N.M. Orion's launch abort system will carry astronauts to safety in the ... more |
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Holloman AFB NM (SPX) Nov 16, 2007The world's first commercial spacesuit was unveiled today by Orbital Outfitters (OO) during a press event held at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, as part of the X-Prize Cup. OO, headquartered in Washington, D.C. with affiliated operations in Los Angeles, is a company that provides emergency spacesuits and related apparel for crew and passengers riding aboard "Next Generation Spaceships". ... more Northrop Grumman Demonstrates New Rocket Engine Design Using Oxygen And Methane Propellants 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2007Northrop Grumman successfully hot-fire tested a radically new type of rocket engine specifically designed to use oxygen and methane propellants that range from all-gas to all-liquid at the inlet to the thruster. More than 50 separate tests demonstrated high performance, operating stability and ample design margin of this 100 lbf-thrust rocket, designated the TR408. The successful tests val ... more LockMart Delivers HMI To Goddard Space Flight Center For NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2007The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), an instrument for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), has been delivered to NASA's GoddardSpacecraft Centerfor integration on SDO, which is scheduled to launch in December 2008. The HMI was designed in collaboration with Professor Philip Scherrer, HMI Principal Investigator, and other scientists at Stanford University. The instrument was built at ... more Crew Moves Harmony To Front Of Space Station 
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 16, 2007The new Harmony node is now in position to receive the European and Japanese modules to be added to the International Space Station. Station crew members moved Harmony from its temporary location on the left side of the Unity node to its new home on the front of the U.S. laboratory Destiny Wednesday morning. Disengagement of the first set of bolts holding Harmony to Unity began at 3:58 a.m. EST. ... more US And Australia Share New Communications Satellites 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2007Representatives from the U.S. Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force met at the Australian Embassy here to sign a memorandum of agreement that will provide both nations assured access to the Wideband Global SATCOM system, expanding the WGS constellation to six satellites. The expansion will vastly improve communications for the military forces of both countries with unprecedented access to ... more |
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Granada, Spain (SPX) Nov 16, 2007The research team from the Geodynamics Department at the University of Granada and the Spanish Institute of Geology and Mining (which is part of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science) has studied the hydrogeology of the karst aquifers in the Mediterranean climate. It has been found that, contrary to popular belief, rivers do not act as insurmountable barriers for groundwater flow. ... more Satellite Shows Regional Variation In Warming From Sun During Solar Cycle 
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 16, 2007A NASA satellite designed, built and controlled by the University of Colorado at Boulder is expected to help scientists resolve wide-ranging predictions about the coming solar cycle peak in 2012 and its influence on Earth's warming climate, according to the chief scientist on the project. Senior Research Associate Tom Woods of CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics said ... more Ultrasound Of Earth's Crust Reveals Inner Workings Of A Tsunami Factory 
Austin TX (SPX) Nov 16, 2007Research announced this week by a team of U.S. and Japanese geoscientists may help explain why part of the seafloor near the southwest coast of Japan is particularly good at generating devastating tsunamis, such as the 1944 Tonankai event, which killed at least 1,200 people. The findings will help scientists assess the risk of giant tsunamis in other regions of the world. Geoscientists fro ... more CGD Ranks CO2 Emissions From Power Plants Worldwide 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2007Now for the first time, the CO2 emissions of 50,000 power plants worldwide, the globe's most concentrated source of greenhouse gases, have been compiled into a massive new data base, called CARMA-Carbon Monitoring for Action. The on-line database, compiled by the Center for Global Development (CGD), an independent policy and research organization that focuses on how the actions of the rich world ... more NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Technology Wins Nano 50 Award 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 16, 2007NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. proudly announces that its method for manufacturing high-quality carbon nanotubes (CNT) has been named a winner in the third annual Nanotech Briefs Nano 50 awards in the Technology category. This award will be celebrated at the Nano 50 awards dinner November 14 at the NASA Tech Briefs National Nano Engineering Conference (NNEC 2007) in Boston, M ... more
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