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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 06, 2012 Here is another one of those ideas that makes me say, "Why didn't I think of that?" Just last month a graduate student presented a paper at the International Astronautical Congress in Naples, Italy. Sung Wook Paek in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, came up with the idea of firing paint balls at an asteroid headed for a collision with Earth. This paper won the 2012 Move an Asteroid Technical Paper Competition sponsored by the United Nations' Space Generation Advisory Council, ... read more |
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  Firestation: Getting Ready for Launch An experiment to study the effects of lightning flashes on Earth's atmosphere has taken its first steps on its journey to space. The Firestation experiment has undergone numerous tests to make sure ... more | |
  Hypergravity helping aircraft fly further ESA research has helped to develop an aircraft-grade alloy that is twice as light as conventional nickel superalloys while offering equally good properties. The path to creating this alloy required ... more | |
  Total Solar Eclipse In Australia, Nov. 14 A total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from the northeastern Australia coast, along the Great Barrier Reef, about an hour after sunrise on November 14 there, which corresponds to the afternoon o ... more | |
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  Ball Aerospace/B612 Foundation Sign Contract for Sentinel Mission Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. and the non-profit B612 Foundation have signed a contract for Ball to create prototype infrared imaging sensors for the Sentinel Mission, a deep space mission t ... more | |
 Night-time View of Aurora Overnight on October 4-5, 2012, a mass of energetic particles from the atmosphere of the Sun were flung out into space, a phenomenon known as a coronal mass ejection. Three days later, the storm fro ... more | |
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The quest to extend human life is both fascinating and fraught with moral peril
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  US Army's Soldier Radio Waveform demonstrated on Raytheon's next gen air and ground radios In a key milestone, Raytheon has demonstrated the Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) on its new class of airborne and ground radio terminals, providing soldiers with another way to communicate across disp ... more | |
 Space Systems Loral Selected by USAF to Develop Next Gen Protected Military Satellite Communications Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that it was selected by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to develop affordable design concepts for next generation Protected Militar ... more | |
  Optical Telescopes Benefit From Precision Hyperboloids Optical Surfaces Ltd. has established a worldwide reputation of being able to deal with the extremely tight tolerances and accuracy that hyperbolic optics demand. Hyperboloids are generally us ... more | |
  Tiangong 1 Parked And Waiting As Shenzhou 10 Mission Prep Continues Following the July-August period when controllers used Tiangong 1's thrusters for strict control of the orbit decay rate, things went quiet and Tiangong 1 settled down to a regime of orbit decay dic ... more |
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 Total Solar Eclipse - Australia 14 November 2012 A total eclipse of the Sun is arguably nature's most spectacular and awe-inspiring phenomenon. Australia will play host to such an event next week and all eyes will be on the horizon overlooking the ... more | |
  NASA Seeks Options for SLS Cargo Payload Fairings and Adapters NASA is exploring options for larger payload fairings to enhance the cargo carrying capabilities of its Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket, now in development, to carry cargo, crewed spacec ... more | |
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 SLS Industry Day at Michoud Assembly Facility Todd May, Space Launch System Program manager, updates the progress of the rocket program to business representatives during "SLS Industry Day at MAF" on Oct. 24 at the Michoud Assembly Facility. ... more | |
 Hubble Sees an Unexpected Population of Young-Looking Stars The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers an impressive view of the center of globular cluster NGC 6362. The image of this spherical collection of stars takes a deeper look at the core of the globu ... more | |
  Mars Longevity Champ Switching Computers NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, already the longest-working spacecraft ever sent to Mars, will switch to some fresh, redundant equipment next week that has not been used since before launch in 2001. ... more | |
 NASA Rover Finds Clues to Changes in Mars' Atmosphere NASA's car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere. Learning what happened to the Martian atmosphere wil ... more |
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