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EADS Chief Calls Satellite Offer Dead Paris, (AFP) Apr 06, 2006 ![]() XCOR Aerospace Composite Material Aces Tests ![]() XCOR Aerospace said Thursday it has conducted successful tests of the ignition and oxygen compatibility of its new thermoplastic fluoropolymer composite material at NASA's White Sands Test Facility in southwest New Mexico. Boeing Orbital Express Program Passes Major Test Milestones ![]() The Boeing Orbital Express system, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program aimed at demonstrating fully autonomous on-orbit satellite servicing, last month completed two major test milestones. |
AeroAstro Joins Ball Aerospace On USAF Small Satellite Program![]() Small-satellite firm AeroAstro said on Thursday that it will design and build the spacecraft bus and provide integration, launch and mission operations services for Ball Aerospace and Technologies under a six-year contract. Microsat The Equivalent Of Orbiting PCs ![]() Satellite technology has advanced to the point where spacecraft smaller than a household washing machine can match the pointing stability and accurate positioning needed to carry astronomical instruments. Swift Spies Unusual Bang In Far Universe ![]() In the nearly 40 years since high-energy gamma-ray bursts in space were first discovered by U.S. satellites looking for Soviet nuclear detonations on Earth, many thousands of the strange phenomena have been observed, but scientists still do not understand them well - and a recent example might cause further confusion instead of improved understanding. |
Arecibo Survey Produces Dark Galaxy Candidate![]() Results from the Arecibo Radio Telescope's new Galaxy Environment Survey show what appears to be the first candidates for mysterious objects called dark galaxies, which burn brilliantly in radio wavelengths but are almost invisible to optical telescopes. Dark galaxies could help explain where part of the so-called missing mass of the universe is hiding. Saturn A-Ring Full Of Debris ![]() Scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder said new calculations, based on Cassini observations taken last May with the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph, or UVIS, show the ring's opacity - or light-blocking capacity - is as much as 35 percent higher than previously reported. Collaboration Improves Solar Storm Forecasting ![]() A recently established partnership between the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Air Force Weather Agency seeks to reduce the impact of space environmental effects on Defense Department operational assets through enhanced forecasting of violent solar storms. |
Spitzer Sees New Planet Disk Around Dead Star![]() NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered new evidence that new planets could emerge from the ashes of a supernova around dense, rapidly spinning stellar remnants called pulsars. Survey Reveals Building Block Process For Biggest Galaxies ![]() A new study of the universe's most massive galaxy clusters shows how mergers play a critical role in their evolution. Astronomers used the twin Gemini Observatory instruments in Hawaii and Chile, and the Hubble Space Telescope to study populations of stars in the universe's most massive galaxy clusters over a range of epochs. XMM-Newton Spots Colliding Supernova Remnants Nearby ![]() Data from ESA's XMM-Newton Space Telescope reveal a cloud of supernova remnants - material blown out into space during death throes of a giant star - has created bubble of gas enveloping the solar system that is being shoved backwards by debris from another and more recent supernova. |
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