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According to the company, the GeoEye-1 satellite is the highest resolution commercial satellite orbiting the planet right now. It reached orbit yesterday, but in reality, it’s not an ordinary commercial satellite:
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Will NASA’s flagship mission to Mars fly next year?
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In this diagram, the sun’s oblateness has been magnified 10,000 times for easy visibility. The blue curve traces the sun’s shape averaged over a three month...
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NASA said Monday it is delaying its mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until next year because of a serious breakdown of the observatory in orbit.
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NASA said Monday it is delaying its shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until next year because of an unexpected breakdown of the telescope.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has stopped sending science data, forcing NASA to regroup and possibly delay the space shuttle mission planned in just two weeks to upgrade...
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NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope has malfunctioned in orbit, and that may mean a delay in the space shuttle mission to service it.
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EcoFactor: A new building technique that uses old freight containers to build new green homes that are not just cost effective but also save energy and time.
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No matter how often we hear about the developed world becoming more like Big Brother every day, it’s not until you see images like these from NASA that you get...
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NASA is delaying next month’s shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope because of problems stemming from Hurricane Ike and replacement parts for the...
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NASA is delaying next month’s shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope because of problems stemming from Hurricane Ike and replacement parts for the...
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In an unprecedented step, a space shuttle was moved to the launch pad Friday for a trip NASA hopes it will never make _ a rescue mission.
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NASA moved space shuttle Endeavour to the launch pad early Friday in case something goes wrong with the upcoming Hubble Space Telescope mission.
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NASA is extending the Phoenix Mars mission again.
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The October launch date of NASA’s shuttle flight to the Hubble Space Telescope is in jeopardy because of a problem with the replacement batteries for the...
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The October launch date of NASA’s shuttle flight to the Hubble Space Telescope is in jeopardy because of a problem with the replacement batteries for the...
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Doctors working with NASA scientists believe that they may have a way to combat one of the greatest health dangers of space travel: bone loss.
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NASA chose a University of Colorado proposal for a $485 million Mars mission on Monday after a nine-month delay caused by a conflict of interest in the selection...
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In the latest scorching sci-fi movie ‘Sunshine’ set in the backdrop of the year 2057, the ‘real space age’ humans deliver a thermonuclear...
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NASA’s new moon rocket passed a key design milestone late Wednesday.
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NASA is about out of options for keeping U.S. astronauts in space after 2011.
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NASA confirmed that a computer virus sneaked aboard the International Space Station only to be tossed into quarantine on July 25 by security software.
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Picture this, fiery laser beams shooting to various parts of the earth. No there are no meteors expected neither is this a description of war of the worlds part 2. This...
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Hopefully, the year 2012 is going to be remembered forever in the history of space tourism industry. It would be the year when EADS Astrium space jet will take off to...
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While all other astronomers are keen to develop means so that all future space missions remain safe, some scientists at NASA have stated that dumping waste equipment in...
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Sometimes strong visualization of idea its judicious representation needs no copy, and this ad from orbit representing only that genre of ad campaign. For those who re...
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Brown dwarfs are hard to find, and it has always been the trouble to accurately assess their size. But now, astronomers have successfully discovered a pair of young...
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This is the perfect gadget for the era, when the world is crying out of energy and natural resources crisis. The Orbit Solar Powered Rain Sensor contribute to the...
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After a long delayed launch, the heavy-lift Ariane-5 rocket ultimately puts two telecommunications satellites into orbit from French Guiana late on Saturday, space...
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A satellite is designed to broadcast transmissions to students and amateur radio operators across the world. The satellite is named SuitSat-1 (also called Radioskaf, or...
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Space is always eventful and to satisfy their impertinent minds, the scientists are always busy exploring the outer world with new probes and discoveries. Here are some...
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The solar system’s formation needs a rethinking. This is felt with the discovery of ‘Buffy,’ an object on the Kuiper Belt’s fringe that extends...
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When did the conditions for life arise? The issue always kicked up controversy and died out unsettled. To add to the existing controversy, a new research suggests that...
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Young stars are forming randomly in not only several but different galaxies. About 5000 faint, embryonic stars have been found in a small galaxy that orbits the Milky...
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In this Oct. 15, 1996 file photo, Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet is seen as he addressed the National Assembly beneath a bust of Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, Vietnam. Former Vietnamese Premier Vo Van Kiet died Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at a hospital in...
