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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 20 July 2008
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 (From Jul 2, 2008) Hurtling out towards interstellar space, the probe Voyager 2 has come across some surprising insights into the forces at work at the outer fringe of our solar system, confirming that interstellar wind is actually squishing our solar system. Voyagers 1 and 2 were launched more than 30 years ago and are the farthest traveled objects man has ever made.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 20 July 2008
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 (From July 1, 2008) After nearly 18 years of studying the sun, the Ulysses solar probe has finally shut down. Ulysses was launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990 and has exceeded its expected lifespan by nearly four times, racking up 5.4 billion space miles. Ulysses, while not equipped with cameras that would give us stunning pictures like we’ve seen from other space probes, still revealed much new information about the sun’s magnetosphere and the effects of solar wind.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 20 July 2008
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 (From June 18, 2008) India’s hopes to launch its first lunar orbiter this month were dashed by late experiment arrivals. The Chandrayaan-1 mission has now been delayed to September 19, 2008, to give engineers the time they need to integrate the experiment payloads and perform the necessary system tests prior to launch.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 20 July 2008
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 (From June 16, 2008) Orbiting the sun-like star HD 40307 just 42-light years away is not one, not two, but three so-called super-Earth planets. The three planets, all larger than Earth but less massive than Uranus or Neptune, at a size which would suggest that they are large rocky planets.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 20 July 2008
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 (From June 14, 2008) Following a successful and busy construction mission to the International Space Station, the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery is now back on terra firma. The 15-day flight to the ISS began on May 31, and involved the installation of the station’s largest module, as well as a much-needed toilet repair that has made life in orbit a little easier.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 20 July 2008
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 (from June 11, 2008) Continuing the little icy ball’s two-year-long identity crisis, our solar system’s favorite non-planet planet has gained a new designation, as per the International Astronomical Union: it is a “plutoid.” Two years ago, the IAU decided that objects like Pluto, which while round, have highly elliptical orbits, would be called “dwarf planets.” The decision was decried by amateur and professional astronomers and the public as a whole.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 20 July 2008
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 (From June 11, 2008) NASA’s Gamma ray Large Area Space Telescope, GLAST if you’re not into saying that mouthful over and over again, successfully launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on June 11. The new telescope was lofted into space aboard a Delta II rocket, and just 75 minutes after launch had settled into its designated low Earth orbit.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 20 July 2008
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 (From June 11, 2008) These days, it’s not uncommon for the mega-wealthy to book themselves a seat on a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station. Usually there’s an extra seat in the capsule for one tourist to tag along with the three crew bound to the station. This’ll change in 2011, as Google co-founder and multi-billionaire Sergei Brin has purchase an entire Soyuz flight for himself.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 08 June 2008
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 It was just all going so well. Too well, it seems. Having resolved communications difficulties back with Earth by switching to a different Martian satellite, Earth-bound mission controllers at the University of Arizona instructed the lander to take the small soil sample it had scooped up out of the Martian arctic and dump it into one of the eight Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) ovens. But none of the soil seems to have made it through the screen into the oven.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Saturday, 07 June 2008
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 Campaigning in Florida as part of his bid to be elected the next President of the United States, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) told a group of newspaper editors that he was excited by the concept of sending a man to Mars. He didn’t say whether he thought his primary opponent for the White House, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), would be a suitable candidate for such a mission.
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