Fire and Ice: A MESSENGER Recap
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 05, 2015 -
The planet closest to the Sun is, ironically, one of the coldest. That's just one of many mind-bending discoveries about Mercury that NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft beamed back to Earth over the past 7 years. The mission ended with a crash as spectacular as some of its findings.
Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, have confirmed ...
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MOU between ISRO Department of Land Resources to beef up EO capacity
New Delhi, India (SPX) May 05, 2015 -
A function for signing the MOU between Department of Land Resources and NRSC for developing the Bhuvan Geoportal - Srishti and the mobile application Drishti was organized on 29.4.2015 in presence of Shri Birender Singh, Hon'ble Minister of Rural Development, in the Krishi Bhavan New Delhi.
The MOU was signed by Dr. Sandeep Dave, Joint Secretary, Department of Land Resources and Dr. V K Da ...
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Pulsar with widest orbit ever detected
Charlottesville NC (SPX) May 05, 2015 -
A team of highly determined high school students discovered a never-before-seen pulsar by painstakingly analyzing data from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Further observations by astronomers using the GBT revealed that this pulsar has the widest orbit of any around a neutron star and is part of only a handful of double neutron star systems.
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New exoplanet too big for its star
Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 05, 2015 -
The Australian discovery of a strange exoplanet orbiting a small cool star 500 light years away is challenging ideas about how planets form. "We have found a small star, with a giant planet the size of Jupiter, orbiting very closely," said researcher George Zhou from the Research School of Astrophysics and Astronomy at The Australian National University.
"It must have formed further out an ...
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Pad Abort Test a Unique Evaluation Opportunity
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 05, 2015 -
SpaceX and NASA teams will gain important insight into how the Crew Dragon spacecraft and its abort system perform during a test slated for May 6, engineers said. Next week's flight test is to see a Crew Dragon and trunk - together about 20 feet tall - fly on the power of eight SuperDraco engines from a platform at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Successful testing of High Thrust Cryogenic Engine
New Delhi (SPC) May 05, 2015 -
A major milestone in the development of ISRO's next generation launch vehicle, GSLV MkIII, was achieved on successful long duration hot test (635 seconds) of high thrust cryogenic engine (CE20) on 28-04-2015 at ISRO Propulsion Complex, Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu.
The CE20 cryogenic engine is being indigenously developed by ISRO to power the cryogenic stage of GSLV MkIII launch vehicle.
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India to launch 6 more satellites in 2015-16
New Delhi (IANS) May 05, 2015 -
India will launch six more satellites - two communication satellites, three navigation satellites and a space science satellite - in 2015-16, parliament was informed on Thursday. "Six more satellites are planned to be launched during 2015-16.
These are two communication satellites GSAT-6 and GSAT-15, three navigation satellites IRNSS-1E, IRNSS-1F and IRNSS-1G, and one space science satelli ...
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