Items tagged with spacecraft

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Small Moon hidden in Saturn ring Discovered Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 - 10:04:54 - Iddo Genuth NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found within Saturn's G ring an embedded moonlet that appears as a faint, moving pinprick of light. Scientists believe... read more

New MIT Rocket Runs on Inexpensive Gases Thursday, February 26th, 2009 - 12:48:52 - Anuradha Menon Satellites orbiting the Earth must occasionally be nudged to stay on the correct path. MIT scientists are developing a new rocket that could make... read more

Launch Mishap Ends OCO Mission Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 - 12:06:25 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite failed to reach orbit after its 4:55 a.m. EST liftoff Feb. 24 from California's Vandenberg Air Force... read more

NOAA-N Prime Launches Saturday, February 7th, 2009 - 10:06:24 - Anuradha Menon The Delta II carrying NOAA-N Prime lifted off Feb. 6, 2009 at 2:22 a.m. Pacific time, 5:22 a.m. Eastern time from Space Launch Complex-2 at... read more

Unknown Geysers on Saturn's Moon Thursday, November 27th, 2008 - 18:47:16 - Anuradha Menon Scientists continue to search for the cause of the geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The geysers are visible as a large plume of water vapor and... read more

Harnessing Light to Drive Nanomachines Thursday, November 27th, 2008 - 14:39:15 - Anuradha Menon Fiction writers have long envisioned sailing a spacecraft by the optical force of the sun’s light. But, the forces of sunlight are too weak to fill... read more

Indian Spacecraft Hits the Moon Saturday, November 15th, 2008 - 12:04:05 - Anuradha Menon In a historic event, the Indian space programme achieved a unique feat today with the placing of Indian tricolour on the Moon’s surface on Pandit... read more

Indian Spacecraft Enters Lunar Trajectory Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 - 18:29:48 - Anuradha Menon The fifth and final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was successfully carried out today (November 4, 2008) morning at 04:56 am... read more

Hubble Scores a Perfect '10' Saturday, November 1st, 2008 - 18:46:21 - Anuradha Menon The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business with a snapshot of the fascinating galaxy pair Arp 147. The science operations were resumed... read more

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