 Rocket Racing Could be Futuristic NASCAR Sport July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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With its first demonstration of a rocket-powered plane, the Rocket Racing League is hoping to have invented a new sport. Thousands of spectators witnessed the league´s first flight, held at the Experimental ... | |
 A Flash of Insight: LCROSS Mission Update August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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There are places on the Moon where the sun hasn't shined for millions of years. Dark polar craters too deep for sunlight to penetrate are luna incognita, the realm of the unknown, and in their inky depths, ... | |
 Scientists solve 30-year-old aurora borealis mystery July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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UCLA space scientists and colleagues have identified the mechanism that triggers substorms in space; wreaks havoc on satellites, power grids and communications systems; and leads to the explosive release of ... | |
 Iran's space agency says it will send man to space August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- State TV says Iran's space agency aims to send an astronaut to space within 10 years. | |
 Preparation begins for new European space mission to Mars August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists searching for life on Mars are now preparing for the most in-depth probe of the Red Planet ever undertaken. | |
 Perseid Meteor Shower To Peak Aug. 12 August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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The annual Perseid meteor shower will be visible in the night sky throughout Colorado and will peak during the early morning hours of Aug. 12, according to an astronomy expert at the University of Colorado ... | |
 Jupiter and Saturn full of liquid metal helium August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A strange, metal brew lies buried deep within Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and in London. | |
 Cassini Prepares to Swoop by Saturn's Geyser-Spewing Moon August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fractures, or "tiger stripes," where icy jets erupt on Saturn's moon Enceladus will be the target of a close flyby by the Cassini spacecraft on Monday, Aug. 11. | |
 Ariane 5 - Fifth launch of 2008 August 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou, in French Guiana, on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits. | |
 Soyuz glitch remains a mystery: NASA chief August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Russian engineers have yet to discover what has caused the Soyuz capsule to experience troublesome descents in its last two trips back to Earth carrying astronauts, the NASA chief said Wednesday. | |
 Space age engineers to verify control software for future robotic interplanetary missions August 20, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
An international team of engineers is to develop mission-critical control software for future European robotic space missions, it has been announced. | |
 Rosetta starts tracking asteroid Steins August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Heading toward its first target-asteroid, (2867) Steins, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track the asteroid and eventually determine its orbit with more ... | |
 August brings the Perseid meteors and a cluster of planets August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Perseid meteor shower will peak before dawn on Aug. 12. This year the Perseids will be competing with the nearly full moon at first, but after the moon sets there will be many bright ... | |
Brian May, guitarist for rock band Queen, completes Ph.D. thesis following 30-year hiatus July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Brian May, the guitarist and founding member of the legendary rock band Queen, earned his PhD in astronomy last year from Imperial College London. His PhD thesis A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud ... | |
MIT upgrades Sputnik-era antenna August 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- A mammoth MIT antenna installed in 1957 as the first radar system to conduct space surveillance (it observed the Sputnik satellite) is poised for many more years of key observations thanks to a recently completed ... | |
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