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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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Filed under: Weird, Science Yesterday the three men who call the International Space Station home did something wholly unremarkable: They drank some water. I know,...
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“What you guys represent is an example of what vision means in the space programme, always describing our willingness to stretch beyond currrent boundaries and to...
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Astronaut Mike Massimino has sent the first tweet from space, making all the rocket buffs green with envy I presume.
From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling...
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Here is yet another move to meet the global energy needs. The solar power generation is not a new concept, however, placing solar arrays in space to capture the maximum...
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NASA has chosen May 11 as the launch date for its last repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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NASA may move up its final trip to the Hubble Space Telescope by one day.
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Eco Factor: Plan to better the efficiency of tidal energy.
Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a cost-effective way to harness ocean tides...
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Eco Factor: Hydrogen fueling station generates hydrogen using renewable energy.
NASA’s Glenn Research Center is leading a team of industry and university partners to...
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NASA’s new planet-hunting telescope has beamed back the first images of a patch of faraway sky in the Milky Way galaxy where it hopes to find Earth-like planets.
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Eco Factor: Greenhouse designed to grow plants and vegetables on lunar surface.
Arizona-based Paragon Space Development Corporation has developed a greenhouse that...
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One small step for NASA, one giant running leap for Stephen Colbert.
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Movito looks like a sleek, hubless electric scooter, and that partly is what the concept is. But it can do something different, like transforming into a car. Designed...
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The alluring aspect of concept vehicles, apart from being clean and green, is that they just give the glimpse of the modes of transportation, which of course is...
made popular Mar 18 2009
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Seven astronauts raced to the international space station aboard space shuttle Discovery on Monday, while NASA debated whether the orbiting outpost will need to move...
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NASA is fueling space shuttle Discovery again in hopes of finally getting its mission going.
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NASA still doesn’t know what caused a hydrogen gas leak that prevented space shuttle Discovery from flying earlier this week.
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NASA feels it has a good shot at sending shuttle Discovery to the international space station on Sunday following repairs out at the launch pad.
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Police in Connecticut have arrested a man with a several-pack-a-day habit _ of Orbit gum.
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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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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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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...
