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23 Jan 2010, 8:44 pm
His brother Alan, also a founder, called it "the orbiting warden. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 8:00 am
HiRISE is one of six instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 5:39 am
In space, another area that has seen major cost overruns in recent years, the Pentagon said it would end its partnership with the Department of Commerce on a polar-orbiting environmental satellite being developed by Northrop, and develop separate satellite systems. [read post]
20 Jan 2010, 4:25 am
This section also includes a section examining on the use of private spaceflight capabilities for “lower earth orbit cargo transport”; this, again, will have to wait on the new space policy to see how much emphasis it puts on the private sector. [read post]
16 Jan 2010, 4:45 am
The report includes the minutes from the four quarterly meetings, including this interesting passage from the first quarter meeting where then-ASAP-member Bolden is talking about risk, safety, and communicating those issues to the public: General Bolden digressed to talk briefly about four overriding themes, specifically (1) foremost, a determination of how safe is safe enough; (2) the timing of NASA involvement in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Program and in… [read post]
11 Jan 2010, 7:00 pm
He also shattered the orbital, which is under his left eye socket, and glass bits tore his iris and cut his eyelid. [read post]
10 Jan 2010, 3:08 am
The victim suffered serious injuries to his face that threaten his sight, including a shattered orbital bone beneath his eye socket, glass in his eye and cuts to his lid and iris. [read post]
8 Jan 2010, 6:55 pm
” The Geneva-based ITU is a United Nations affiliate that regulates satellite and other wireless communications frequencies and satellite orbital slots. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 11:27 am
” (As for the gap, he said that if we don’t have some American-made option of putting crews in orbit by 2020, “we’re in big trouble, to be be quite honest. [read post]
31 Dec 2009, 3:00 pm
The Cassini orbiter (pictured at the top right of this image) and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 6:40 am
He cannot bring this country into his orbit electorally, but he could conceivably try to move it into his column through other means--revolution, insurrection, pressure from across the border. [read post]
24 Dec 2009, 12:00 pm
The Cassini orbiter (pictured at the bottom of this image) and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. [read post]
24 Dec 2009, 4:34 am
Satellites positioned in geo-synchronous orbit at 22,300 miles from the Earth's surface are equipped with infrared sensors, which enable them to detect heat. [read post]
23 Dec 2009, 12:10 pm
That's called "ex cathedra," and it went out of fashion back when we figured out that Aristotle was wrong and that the Sun really didn't orbit the Earth. [read post]
19 Dec 2009, 11:43 am
But as regards the outcome of the Avatar "war": obviously a consequence of interstellar travel is that it physically restructures the brain, so as to make kinetic weapons delivered from high orbit an impossible concept. [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 11:36 am
The marauding space fleets are going to be governed by orbit dynamics - not just of their own ships in orbit around planets and suns, but those planets' orbits. [read post]
17 Dec 2009, 1:38 pm
Those for and against this move orbit around the same primary aim: the best structure for patient protection, a mutual belief in the importance of rigorous and ongoing training and an anxiety to revive confidence in the public. [read post]
17 Dec 2009, 10:13 am
It would also scrap the Ares 1 rocket in favor of outsourcing space operations in low Earth orbit to the private sector. [read post]
17 Dec 2009, 3:46 am
But that’s exactly what NBC’s Jay Barbree suggested in a brief report yesterday about the meeting between Obama and Bolden: If the two executives decide to stay NASA’s current course, the agency will have rockets and spaceships capable of stopping a future asteroid threat to millions, flying to and beyond the moon and, partnered with Russia and China, place in low orbit solar flux reflectors for climate control. [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 11:22 am
Millimetron is a Russian space mission that plans to construct an orbiting observatory equipped with a mirror 12 metres in diameter, an absolute record in the history of space missions. [read post]
