Items tagged with orbit

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Two Satellites Collide in Orbit Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 - 20:13:55 - Iddo Genuth In an unprecedented space collision, a commercial Iridium communications satellite and a defunct Russian satellite ran into each other Tuesday above... read more

How to Spot Moons Far, Far Away Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 - 12:07:59 - Ehud Rattner We might soon get our first glimpse of a moon orbiting a planet in another solar system. Little effort has so far been made to find such an... read more

Massive Planet-Sized Object Found Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 - 18:39:44 - Anuradha Menon COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that... read more

Shell of Dusty Gas Observed Sunday, July 27th, 2008 - 14:27:43 - Ehud Rattner Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, and its remarkable acuity, astronomers were able for the first time to witness the appearance of a... read more

Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-like Star Saturday, July 26th, 2008 - 21:45:15 - Anuradha Menon A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days... read more

Could Orbiting Robots Repair Satellites? Sunday, June 29th, 2008 - 08:16:10 - Ehud Rattner Fewer astronauts, more robots. That's the call from three European aerospace engineers, who argue that crewed satellite repair missions - like the... read more

Discovery Lands Safely Saturday, June 14th, 2008 - 20:25:35 - Iddo Genuth Five men and one woman who flew back to Earth after two weeks in space today looked over the outside of space shuttle Discovery as it sat on the... read more

GLAST spacecraft is in Orbit Thursday, June 12th, 2008 - 07:44:29 - Ehud Rattner At June 11th, 12:05 p.m. EDT, the Delta II rocket easily lifted the GLAST spacecraft off the launch pad, out of smoke and clouds and into a beautiful... read more

NASA Completes Series of Ares Engine Tests Friday, May 9th, 2008 - 20:16:57 - Ehud Rattner NASA engineers Thursday successfully completed the first series of tests in the early development of the J-2X engine that will power the upper stages... read more

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