In about 11 days, a NASA space probe is due to perform flyby of a comet within the inner solar system, for the third time since it was launched. The spacecraft carried out a correction maneuver a few days ago, in order to ensure that the meet-up will go on without a hitch. The Stardust-NExT mission uses a space probe... |
3 February 2011
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In a bid to gain more insight into asteroid Vesta ahead of the Dawn spacecraft's visit, scientists used the NASA Hubble Space Telescope to observe the giant space rock in great detail. This study is very important for mission planners in charge of managing the NASA Dawn space probe, which needs to rendezvous wit... |
9 October 2010
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The EPOXI mission is finally nearing its targets, mission controllers announced recently, saying that the spacecraft has just performed its 20th orbital correction maneuver successfully.Thanks to this accomplishment, the spacecraft is now on track towards meeting up with comet Hartley 2. The event is scheduled to tak... |
1 October 2010
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On February 25, the NASA New Horizons mission finally reached one of the major milestones of its flight – namely exceeding half the distance to its target, the dwarf planet Pluto. The spacecraft, which is one of the few being propelled by a cylindrical radioisotope thermoelectric generator, or RTG, carries with... |
27 February 2010
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On October 18, 1989, the Galileo Jupiter mission was launched aboard the space shuttle Atlantis from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, during STS-34. It was scheduled to arrive in the gas giant's orbit on December 7, 1995, but it had to follow a very complex path through the solar syste... |
20 October 2009
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The American space agency NASA usually makes use of solar panels for its exploration missions in the solar system, such as for instance on Mars, the Moon, Saturn, Mercury, Vesta, Ceres, and so on. But these explorations take place in the relative vicinity of the Sun, so the amount of electricity produced by the solar... |
1 October 2009
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The concept of solar sails, devices that would rely on solar winds and photons to power up spacecraft traveling through the solar system and beyond, has been around for quite some time now. Although some of the materials theoretically needed for them have been developed, and even a few not-that-successful attempts ha... |
19 August 2009
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