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25 Nov 2010, 6:37 am
The test flight, using a Delta 4 Heavy launched from Cape Canaveral, would put the spacecraft into an elliptical orbit; the Orion would later splash down off the California coast. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 6:16 am
Glenn had just finished orbiting the Earth on February 20, 1962. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 7:43 am
The global threat from orbital debris, as example, is troubling for governments, multinational institutions, as well as multinational industries. [read post]
6 Aug 2007, 10:38 pm
So the sun has an orbit, or an oscillation, relative to the galactic plane, and when it gets to one of the extremes, we get fried with muons. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 5:45 am
1 Oct 2019, 6:52 am
You can click or tap each entry to preview the orbit. [read post]
19 Jun 2016, 11:30 am
Via NASA Jet Propulsion Labs: “For the first time, an instrument onboard an orbiting spacecraft has measured the methane emissions from a single, specific leaking facility on Earth’s surface. [read post]
12 Jul 2014, 8:13 pm
After ten years in orbit, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite has been in orbit sufficiently long to show that people in major U.S. cities are breathing less nitrogen dioxide – a yellow-brown gas that can cause respiratory problems…Nitrogen dioxide is one of the six common pollutants regulated by the U.S. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 7:31 am
Because satellites cannot be repaired or refueled in orbit, components, like batteries, eventually fail. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 7:31 am
Because satellites cannot be repaired or refueled in orbit, components, like batteries, eventually fail. [read post]
10 Dec 2008, 12:14 pm
After 60 years, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights cuts a wide orbit. [read post]
25 May 2016, 1:09 pm
The fast orbits require a larger central mass than the nearby stars, dust, and other baryonic objects can provide, leading scientists to propose that every galaxy resides in a halo of (as yet undetectable) dark matter made of non-baryonic particles. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 10:00 am
Proctor Crater, Mars This view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is of the Proctor Crater. [read post]
11 Jan 2008, 7:28 am
"Unfortunately it constitutes a return to the 1990s during which astronauts flew in circles in low Earth orbit and commercial space was ignored. [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 7:13 am
by Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz with the blog faculty Source: NTI The United States has yet to determine whether it will adopt European Union rules with possible bearing on the use of orbital armaments, a high-level U.S. [read post]
25 May 2012, 8:21 am
source – Flight Global: International cooperation crucial to exploring outer space, say agency heads By: Zach Rosenberg Washington DC 11:19 22 May 2012 International cooperation is crucial to missions beyond Earth orbit, affirmed a panel of space agency leaders on 22 May. [read post]
20 Sep 2013, 6:02 pm
Wikipedia says: Stanley Kubrick originally intended that when the film does its famous match-cut from prehistoric bone-weapon to orbiting satellite that the latter and the 3 additional satellites seen would be established as orbiting nuclear weapons by a voice-over narrator talking about nuclear stalemate. [read post]
10 Jun 2018, 7:49 pm
Orbital ATK is the premier supplier of solid rocket motors (“SRMs”), which propel missiles to their intended targets and are an essential input for missile systems. [read post]
10 Jun 2018, 7:49 pm
Orbital ATK is the premier supplier of solid rocket motors (“SRMs”), which propel missiles to their intended targets and are an essential input for missile systems. [read post]
23 Nov 2008, 3:02 pm
“New evidence from radar surveys by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter strongly suggest that the lobes are pure ice in the form of glaciers, buried under a thin layer of soil and rock. [read post]
