NASA Captures Images of a Late Summer Flare
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 28, 2014 -
On Aug. 24, 2014, the sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 8:16 a.m. EDT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the flare, which erupted on the left side of the sun.
Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however - when intense enough - they c ...
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US Space Debris Tracking Site To Be Build In Western Australia
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 28, 2014 -
Under a new strategic cooperation agreement, Lockheed Martin and Electro Optic Systems Pty Ltd are developing a new space object tracking site in Western Australia that will paint a more detailed picture of space debris for both government and commercial customers.
The site will use a combination of lasers and sensitive optical systems like those found in telescopes to detect, track and ch ...
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Best View Yet of Merging Galaxies in Distant Universe
Paris (SPX) Aug 28, 2014 -
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and many other telescopes on the ground and in space, an international team of astronomers has obtained the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the Universe was only half its current age.
They enlisted the help of a galaxy-sized magnifying glass to reveal otherwise invisible detail. These new ...
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Update on Galileo launch injection anomaly
Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2014 -
Work at ESA's ESOC control centre continues relentlessly on the two Galileo satellites.
Despite the non-nominal orbit, the satellites are safely under control after they were released from the launcher upper stage and their orbital position was determined by the European ground teams deployed at ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany.
Controllers there, in cooperation with the satellite manufact ...
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New Earth-Observing Instrument Makes Successful Balloon Flight
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2014 -
In New Mexico on the morning of Aug. 18, a high-altitude balloon successfully carried the HyperSpectral Imager for Climate Science (HySICS) instrument to an altitude of 123,000 feet, above most of the Earth's atmosphere, to reach space-like conditions and demonstrate new technologies for acquiring high-accuracy science measurements of the Earth.
Scientists use outgoing shortwave radiance, ...
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Sentinel-1 poised to monitor motion
Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2014 -
Although it was only launched a few months ago and is still being commissioned, the new Sentinel-1A radar satellite has already shown that it can be used to generate 3D models of Earth's surface and will be able to closely monitor land and ice surface deformation.
As the first in a fleet of satellite missions for Europe's Copernicus environmental monitoring programme, Sentinel-1A was launc ...
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NASA deep-space rocket, SLS, to launch in 2018
Washington (AFP) Aug 27, 2014 -
The US space agency's powerful deep-space rocket, known as the Space Launch System (SLS), aims to blast off for the first time in 2018, NASA said Wednesday.
The SLS has been in development for three years already, and when finished it should propel spacecraft beyond Earth's orbit and eventually launch crew vehicles to Mars by the 2030s.
NASA has now completed a thorough review of the pro ...
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