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OrbiterApps has issued a new maintenance update for users of its flagship product, Orbiter. The free Mac app is a Softpedia pick. Orbiter acts as a quick launcher for the files, folders and applications you use the most. “This is a performance update only,” a small announcement on the OrbiterApps website... |
21 December 2009
10:26 GMT |
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The American space agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been recently pulled out of its safe mode state, and has returned to making highly detailed scientific observations. The announcements were made by experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, who manage the mission for NASA. All six sci... |
18 December 2009
08:38 GMT |
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OrbiterApps has released a new version of one of our favorite freeware programs for the Mac, Orbiter. The app acts as a quick launcher for the files, folders and applications you use the most on your Mac. It comes in extremely handy to those who need to access many places on their Mac on a regular basis, but don'... |
7 September 2009
06:44 GMT |
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According to mission managers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, the powerful NASA-operated Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was finally pulled off of the backup computer it was forced to relay on last week. Its main systems exhibited a bizarre error, which sent the spacecraft in safe m... |
12 August 2009
02:36 GMT |
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Launched way back on April 7th, 2001, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has been circling the Red Planet since October 24th, 2001, and has been providing the American space agency, and humankind in general, with incredible amounts of data about the composition of the Martian soil, as well as with images of the planet&... |
23 June 2009
04:41 GMT |
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Soon after seeing its 1.2 release, adding fresh color themes, resizable icons, a quick folder view and more, Orbiter has received an update, this time addressing stability issues, fixing a few persistent bugs as well. New features have also been incorporated in this release, such as a fresh Auto-Resize Window feature... |
17 March 2009
05:12 GMT |
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The folks at Orbiter Apps have released a fresh version of their useful Dock sidekick, Orbiter. The new version adds new features, as well as an updated interface. Orbiter, a Softpedia Freeware Pick, acts as a quick launcher for your most used apps, or places that you visit on your hard drive on a regular basis.Since... |
11 March 2009
04:59 GMT |
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NASA officials have recently announced that a new reconnaissance probe will be sent to Mars' orbit around 2016, in order to investigate the planet's mysterious methane emissions. In fact, the main goal of the mission would be to determine if the gas that can still be detected in the Martian atmosphere comes... |
6 March 2009
05:45 GMT |
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Orbiter has come a long way since we first featured it in our weekly recommended apps two months ago. It is one of my personal freeware favorites, as it is the most non-intrusive, yet helpful programs of its kind. Orbiter's one-window simple interface allows you to access any file, directory, or application on y... |
4 December 2008
08:16 GMT |
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The mission performed by the Indian Space Research Agency (ISRO)'s spacecraft, Chandrayaan-1, currently orbiting the Moon is carrying on very well so far. It has already successfully launched an impacting probe to the lunar surface and has sent the first pictures and scientific data collected back to Earth. But ... |
28 November 2008
08:46 GMT |
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More than 42 years ago, the Soviet Union launched what is now known as the first human-built spacecraft to enter the orbit of another celestial body except Earth. Luna 10 liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launchpad - today in Kazakhstan - on 31 March 1966, and on 3 April 1966 at 18:44 UTC it entered in orbit aroun... |
29 March 2008
07:16 GMT |
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Following the successful launch of the Chang'e 1, the first Chinese lunar orbiter, Chang'e 2 is supposed to launch in the course of next year, only to become the second probe in the Chang'e program. The third, Chang'e 3, will most likely be a robotic lander that is expected to launch somewhere aro... |
4 March 2008
04:06 GMT |
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Launched by the European Space Agency in 2003, the Mars Express was the first European spacecraft in the orbit of the Red Planet. After four years of continuous study of the planet's surface and sending countless images, this Friday the orbiter will complete its 5000th orbit around Earth's sister planet.Equ... |
23 November 2007
05:52 GMT |
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has just put its moon mission on indefinite hold due to technical glitch, in what seems to be a never ending streak of bad luck for the country's ambitious plans to get to the Moon.Called the Selenological and Engineering Explorer - or SELENE, the space probe was d... |
23 July 2007
04:17 GMT |
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An official from the Chinese Space Administration declared that the first step in Moon exploration will take off later this year. It's a Moon orbiter, part of an ambitious Chinese space exploration plan.The country's lunar ambitions are set out in the "Chang'e Project," named after the Chinese moon go... |
21 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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