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Massive stars are giants several hundred times the mass of our Sun, which have the ability to form neutron stars and black holes at the end of their burning cycle. They are a rare occurrence in the Universe, so the processes involved in their birth sequences have been very little understood until now. With the help o... |
17 November 2009
03:45 GMT |
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For the first time in more than two decades, NASA is working on a new class of rockets, the ARES range, a part of Project Constellation. Scheduled to replace the aging shuttle fleet by 2015, the Project has been plagued with controversies ever since it was first accepted, and all of its components have been openly cr... |
29 September 2009
01:52 GMT |
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The Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, the segment of Project Constellation that is planned to take astronauts to low-Earth orbit and the Moon starting 2015, has recently passed its preliminary design review test. Even though this is good news, its faith is still unclear, considering the fact that the future of the ARES... |
2 September 2009
03:04 GMT |
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As we were reporting yesterday, NASA and ATK Space Systems, a division of the Brigham City, Utah-based Alliant Techsystems, attempted to test-fire the newly finished ARES I rocket motor for the first time. However, a minor glitch caused the test to be postponed until Tuesday, officials at the space agency and the con... |
28 August 2009
08:01 GMT |
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In spite of the recent controversies surrounding Project Constellation – NASA's new plan of returning astronauts to the Moon by 2020 – the American space agency is pushing ahead with its scheduled tests. The newly completed rocket will undergo its first, full-scale engine test today, at a facility ow... |
27 August 2009
06:35 GMT |
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A panel of Air Force safety experts has recently shown in a memo that NASA's newly developed rocket escape system, destined for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, might not work in the event of a failed landing, and that, subsequently, the crew and craft could easily die in the process. The space agency has rep... |
9 June 2009
14:51 GMT |
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NASA's ARES I rocket will be a two-stage launch vehicle, designed to carry the future Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle to Earth's orbit. But its engineers envisioned the spacecraft as having a reusable first-stage motor, which means that it would have to somehow be recovered after each launch. Experts agree t... |
21 May 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Policymakers in the United States are currently struggling to pass legislation that would ensure the operation of the nation's shuttle fleet even beyond 2010. More specifically, US House and Senate representatives are struggling to eliminate the deadline for the retirement of the shuttles, currently scheduled fo... |
30 April 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Off the eastern coast of central Florida, a small and tightly secured portion of the Atlantic ocean is home to a very peculiar site. A white capsule, adorned with three orange spheres on its “nose,” floats around in the ocean, surrounded by research vessels and emergency crews, ready to step in if anythin... |
30 April 2009
04:28 GMT |
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The Orion Nebula is, perhaps, one of the most scrutinized objects in the sky, mainly because it can be seen with the naked eye during bright nights. Located in the Orion Constellation, some 1,270 light-years away from Earth, the giant formation has been recently proven to be the stage for the formation of countless n... |
21 April 2009
19:01 GMT |
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The American space agency may not be able to bring the new ARES rockets and the Orion Crew Exploration vehicle online by 2015, as original plans predicted, a new report by the Congressional Budget Office watchdog states. According to the paper, the date could be pushed back to late 2016, under the current funding sch... |
21 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Designing the next-generation of heat shields for the Orion Crew Exploration vehicle is a tremendously complicated task, because of the high stakes involved in the new spaceship's flights. Scheduled to take astronauts to the ISS by 2015, and to the Moon by 2020, the new capsule will have to endure scorching temp... |
10 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The successful completion of the Orion spacecraft is paramount for NASA, on account of the fact that, as soon as it has a working prototype, the shorter the time span it will have to wait until it can resume spaceflights. With the three-shuttle fleet due to be retired at the end of 2010, the Americans find themselves... |
10 April 2009
03:17 GMT |
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Peering deep inside the Orion nebula, the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Chile facility has discovered that the long-known Theta 1 Orionis C pair of stars is, in fact, a binary system. Its two members are locked in the same orbit around each other, and thi... |
3 April 2009
02:57 GMT |
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The National Mall in Washington is currently the host of a more unusual exhibition. NASA has placed on display a mock-up of the future Orion capsule, the craft that is supposed to be the American space agency's main vehicle after 2015. Following the withdrawal of the shuttle fleet next year, the agency will be l... |
1 April 2009
02:49 GMT |
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The Canadian Space Agency (CSA/ASC) has already begun research and development on a new generation of robotic arms, the kind of tools that deal with the heavy lifting aboard the ISS and all of NASA's space shuttles. The device, for which MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has been already given some money,... |
19 March 2009
04:02 GMT |
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On July 11th, NASA is scheduled to conduct a test flight of the ARES I-X prototype, designed to ensure that the construction is feasible, and that the delivery system can indeed carry people and hardware safely to orbit, and then to the Moon or Mars. For this very purpose, a mock-up of the future Orion Crew Transport... |
30 January 2009
04:53 GMT |
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NASA recently announced that it finished renovating an old, Apollo-era building it had at its Florida Spaceport, following a $55 million investment in the new infrastructure. The new Operations and Checkout Building stands as a symbol that, even if the American space agency will renounce its fleet of shuttles in 2010... |
29 January 2009
05:15 GMT |
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There haven't been too many pieces of good news related to the Constellation project, and especially to the Ares I rocket as of late. At some point, even its ability to fly or to be completed on schedule was questioned and some NASA internal turmoil linked to the subject ended up with some resignations and skept... |
8 December 2008
03:03 GMT |
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American president-elect Barack Obama's recently chosen NASA transition team has come up with a long list of questions (five pages of them) for the agency. If the implications behind the questionnaire addressed to the agency's officials are speculated upon, the fate of some of NASA's most important pro... |
4 December 2008
10:14 GMT |
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A mixed team of NASA experts and technicians from their contractors has recently performed a full-scale test of the launch abort system for the future Constellation program set to replace the current space shuttles by 2015. The abort operation is aimed to save the lives of the crew of Constellation's Orion capsu... |
24 November 2008
03:29 GMT |
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NASA's independent Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued its yearly assessment related to the agency's most difficult situations to be addressed in the future. They are all related to money at some point. The most important is, as probably expected, concerns the space shuttle retirement program ... |
19 November 2008
05:33 GMT |
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The newly-elected president of the United States will have to come up with a thorough but quick decision related to the fate of the space shuttle retirement program, which, in turn, will also affect the remaining missions, as well as a part of NASA's “Constellation” program referring to the replaceme... |
7 November 2008
08:18 GMT |
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According to a report released on Monday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), squeezing a new space mission among the ones to be conducted before the scheduled retirement of the shuttles could prevent this retirement process from happening in due time – by 2010, as hoped. The chance for this to still take... |
5 November 2008
03:37 GMT |
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The latest of NASA's crafts, the Orion space capsule unveiled at the space agency's Dryden Flight Research Center from the Edwards Air Force Base, is currently undergoing first tests. If all goes well, this will serve as a prototype for the actual spacecraft, perfectly identical but including all the improv... |
1 November 2008
08:10 GMT |
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The date of retirement for NASA's famous space orbiter draws ever closer by the day; thus, the US space agency has decided to publish the dates of launch for the last eight space shuttle missions expected to take place in 2009 and 2010. The other two flights that will be carried out by the space shuttle this yea... |
9 July 2008
09:23 GMT |
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2000SG344 is a Near Earth Object only 40 meters in diameter which passes periodically through the vicinity of our planet at speeds as high as 44,8 kilometers per hour. Astronomers estimate that in the next six decades or so, the asteroid will approach Earth considerably but it will not intersect the orbit of the plan... |
8 May 2008
10:21 GMT |
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The US space shuttles are supposed to retire in 2010 in order to give way to the Ares I rocket. However, it hasn't been a secret for awhile that NASA's new rocket design is fatally flawed and may shake itself to pieces during liftoff. NASA engineers believe they have found a solution to their problem, in th... |
7 April 2008
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Putting a man on the Moon in 1969 was easy. Putting a man on the Moon today is not. I, for one, don't understand the logic of it. Do we really have to mention Mars too? According to the congressional report on NASA's replacement of the space shuttle, the Constellation Program is in serious danger of failing... |
4 April 2008
06:58 GMT |
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We all know how valuable heat shields are while making re-entries into Earth's atmosphere, the Columbia space shuttle disaster stands as testimony for the importance of such hardware, as a hole only about 30 centimeters in diameter brought down a 3.6 ton behemoth of a spacecraft, killing seven in the process. In... |
3 March 2008
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Unlike the Apollo missions which took the first man to our natural satellite, the future Crew Exploration Vehicle that will deliver the Lunar Surface Access Module to the surface, after which it will remain on the orbit, will most probably have no humans on board, and will have dual role in the future lunar missions:... |
21 December 2007
05:55 GMT |
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Nebulae inside the Milky Way galaxy often receive high amounts of hot gas ejected by stars inside, which makes them emit radiation in the X-ray spectrum. Discovering these X-ray signatures could provide new information about young stars, which may hold secrets about the solar system and the planetary formation. The O... |
30 November 2007
06:42 GMT |
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New stuff under the sun for Boeing! Gizmag reports that the giant company will have five P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine test planes finalized by March 2009, with the actual production process expected to begin starting in 2013.The plane is said to be no less than a hundred and twenty nine feet long aircraft with a 117 ... |
10 November 2007
08:20 GMT |
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Carl Zeiss does it again. After signing partnerships with some other heavy names in the optical devices industry, they decided to look closer into the medical field or wherever some might need microscopes.This is not Carl Zeiss SMT's first attempt to revolutionize the way we view the world. The giant company ha... |
5 November 2007
07:06 GMT |
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has delivered a spectacular image revealing the birth of new stars in the Orion galaxy, a famous constellation visible in winter from the northern hemisphere. They are the result of shockwaves that occurred 3 million years ago when a massive star exploded.The Orion constellation, a... |
19 May 2007
07:11 GMT |
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The Gemini Observatory in Hawaii released the newest and most detailed images of supersonic "bullets" of gas piercing through dense clouds of hydrogen gas in the Orion Nebula.The latest image of the Orion bullets was created with a new technology, called adaptive optics, which uses a laser guide star as a reference ... |
26 March 2007
09:46 GMT |
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