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15 Jul 2010, 8:50 am
Langston with the blog faculty Source: Spaceflight Now Sea Launch netted a contract last week to send an unspecified AsiaSat communications satellite to orbit between 2012 and 2014, strengthening the company’s backlog as it hopes to emerge from bankruptcy later this year. [read post]
3 May 2016, 12:16 am
A Belgian-led team reported Monday that it's discovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star less than 40 light-years away. [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 12:57 pm
It’s a big universe, but it’s full of small planets.A group of astronomers led by Guillermo Torres of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced on Tuesday that they had found eight new planets orbiting their stars at distances compatible with liquid water, bringing the total number of potentially habitable “Goldilocks planets” to a few dozen, depending on how the habitable zone is defined. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 6:44 am
Orbit Books, The Chart of Fantasy Art, 2009 (spotted via Boing Boing via Making Light) [read post]
20 Oct 2015, 11:09 am
All 19 of NASA’s current orbiting Earth-observing missions were launched after 1997. [read post]
23 Sep 2018, 3:43 pm
The original letter — long thought lost — in which Galileo Galilei first set down his arguments against the church’s doctrine that the Sun orbits the Earth has been discovered in a misdated library catalogue in London. [read post]
24 Dec 2008, 5:02 am
Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to orbit the moon. [read post]
4 May 2007, 1:56 pm
This patent from Intel uses "nano-domains" in which the logic state is represented by electron spin or orbital state of the nano-domains.1. [read post]
7 Nov 2021, 8:38 pm
The mega-corp was previously approved to send 3,236 birds into low Earth orbit by 2029. [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 3:00 pm
About 40 percent of red dwarf stars may have Earth-sized planets orbiting them that have the right conditions for life. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 8:17 am
Meanwhile, “the Michigan-based Ecology Center tested an Orbit G-3 toddler car seat using multiple labs and found another form of Tris. [read post]
17 May 2010, 1:16 pm
General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it was no longer feasible for the U.S. and other countries to keep up with the orbiting satellites if kept a secret. [read post]
23 Jan 2007, 5:04 pm
In addition to the orbital mess caused by China's anti-satellite weapon test, a noxious cloud of diplomatic debris lingers. [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 11:00 am
Tattooed Mars This high-resolution picture from the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows twisting dark trails criss-crossing light-colored terrain on the Martian surface. [read post]
19 Jun 2012, 9:30 am
“Second, to achieve manned space exploration beyond low-Earth orbit, places where no human has ever been. [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 5:59 pm
The first Falcon 9 successfully launched a Dragon capsule simulator into orbit on June 4. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 6:05 pm
The Leonids take place when the Earth passes through the dust and debris trailing behind by the comet Tempel-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 33 years. [read post]
31 Jul 2015, 8:57 am
On March 6, NASA's Dawn spacecraft began orbiting Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. [read post]
10 May 2015, 10:39 am
The troopers drop from orbit one by one to wreak havoc on whatever target the Sky Marshal deems worthy of the attention. [read post]
13 Nov 2010, 11:41 am
by Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz with the blog faculty Source: Space News By Turner Brinton WASHINGTON — The heads of the U.S. and Australian defense departments on Nov. 8 signed a pact in Melbourne to cooperate on space situational awareness activities, which may include placing U.S. radars in Australia to track satellites and debris in low Earth orbit. [read post]
