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Rethinking Space Weather
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 - Anuradha Menon
Whether it's showering spacecraft with lethal radiation, filling the sky with ghostly light, or causing electrical surges...

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Kepler Finds Its First Planets

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 - 10:17:04 - Anuradha Menon

Stars hum and throb, and the vibrations of this cosmic music could aid the NASA satellite Kepler in its goal of finding an Earth-like extrasolar...

Crash Into the Moon With LCROSS on Friday

Friday, October 9th, 2009 - 12:48:48 - Anuradha Menon

Tomorrow morning you’ll have a rare opportunity to experience a live moon crash. At 7:31 a.m. EDT, NASA’s LCROSS satellite will send a rocket...

Race is On for Space-Junk Alarm System

Sunday, July 26th, 2009 - 15:43:58 - Ehud Rattner

A worldwide network of radar stations could tackle the ever-growing problem of space debris - the remains of old rockets and satellites that pose an...

LRO Sends its First Lunar Images to Earth

Friday, July 3rd, 2009 - 09:04:37 - Anuradha Menon

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted its first images since reaching the moon on June 23. The spacecraft's two cameras, collectively...

LRO, LCROSS Liftoff on Lunar Journey

Friday, June 19th, 2009 - 18:15:48 - Anuradha Menon

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, successfully separated from the Centaur upper stage and Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or...

Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 - Janice Karin
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Propulsion...

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Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Distance Record

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 - 12:26:43 - Anuradha Menon

NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630...

How Earth Moved During Italy Quake

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - 14:03:07 - Anuradha Menon

Studying satellite radar data from ESA’s Envisat and the Italian Space Agency’s COSMO-SkyMed, scientists have begun analyzing the movement of Earth...

Inexpensive Satellite Bandwidth under Development
Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - Janice Karin
A team of researchers funded by the European Union has developed methods for optimizing satellite bandwidth, potentially...