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Race is On for Space-Junk Alarm System

Sunday, July 26th, 2009 - 15:43:58 - Ehud Rattner

A worldwide network of radar stations could tackle the ever-growing problem of space debris - the remains of old rockets and satellites that pose an...

LRO Sends its First Lunar Images to Earth

Friday, July 3rd, 2009 - 09:04:37 - Anuradha Menon

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted its first images since reaching the moon on June 23. The spacecraft's two cameras, collectively...

LRO, LCROSS Liftoff on Lunar Journey

Friday, June 19th, 2009 - 18:15:48 - Anuradha Menon

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, successfully separated from the Centaur upper stage and Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or...

Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 - Janice Karin
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Propulsion...

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Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Distance Record

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 - 12:26:43 - Anuradha Menon

NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630...

How Earth Moved During Italy Quake

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - 14:03:07 - Anuradha Menon

Studying satellite radar data from ESA’s Envisat and the Italian Space Agency’s COSMO-SkyMed, scientists have begun analyzing the movement of Earth...

Inexpensive Satellite Bandwidth under Development
Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - Janice Karin
A team of researchers funded by the European Union has developed methods for optimizing satellite bandwidth, potentially...

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Space Station Won't Have to Dodge Debris

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 - 16:32:06 - Sarah Gingichashvili

NASA won't have to maneuver the international space station to dodge a piece of debris from a Soviet-era satellite spinning around Earth, the space...

Gravity Satellite Launch Delayed

Monday, March 16th, 2009 - 12:22:13 - Sarah Gingichashvili

The launch of a European Space Agency gravity mapping satellite, called Goce, has been delayed. The Goce satellite will map minute variations in the...

'Supermodel' Satellite Head to Space

Sunday, March 15th, 2009 - 10:13:47 - Sarah Gingichashvili

Europe is set to launch one of its most challenging space missions to date. The Goce satellite will map minute variations in the pull of gravity...

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