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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 01 May 2008
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 If you’ve ever been to the hospital or even watched a show like House or ER, you know that medical scanners like ultrasounds and x-rays are large bulky machines that have no place in a field environment. And being that you’re here, you probably watch Star Trek and know that the future is filled with all sorts of handheld medical scanners that can do everything from diagnose the common cold to performing a complete physical with the flick of a wrist. Well, that day has come closer, with medical engineers coupling handheld scanners with everyday cellular phones to create a modern day tricorder.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
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 It’s always been a bit of a puzzlement to astronomers: how can an object with so massive of a gravitational pull that light cannot escape be throwing out matter at nearly the speed of light? These jets spew from the black hole’s poles and are among the brightest objects that humans have observed. It is now theorized that the black hole’s enormous mass is distorting space and time and twisting magnetic fields into a coil that propels matter away.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
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 Taking another step towards a new global satellite navigation system, the ESA launched its second Galileo satellite, the Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element B (GIOVE-B). The advanced satellite is carrying aboard it the most accurate atomic clock ever flown into space. All US Global Positioning System satellites and the Galileo satellites are run off of atomic clocks that are used to triangulate the position of both ground and orbital receivers.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
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 Since 2005, the Mars rover Opportunity has had a problem: arthritis. Starting a few years ago the motor that controls the sideway’s movement of the rover’s robotic arm has suffered from intermittent stalling, and now the glitch has grown worse. On April 14th, Opportunity started to extend its arm and the motor froze. With the arm stuck where it is, the important instruments on its tip cannot be used.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Monday, 28 April 2008
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 The Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle was used for the first time on Friday to adjust the orbit of the International Space Station. The 12 minute burn of the ATV’s main engine raised the 280 ton orbital station by 4.5 km to an altitude of 342 km. The ATV was designed to carry plenty of additional fuel for such maneuvers.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Monday, 28 April 2008
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 It’s the largest ever collection of images released from the Hubble Space Telescope, and it’s to commemorate the orbital telescope’s passage into adulthood. The images all depict galactic collisions and the exotic and beautiful forms those merging and diverging galaxies take.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 20 April 2008
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 Having secured themselves a permanent berth aboard the ISS with the success of the Jules Verne ATV cargo ship, the European Space Agency is now looking to exploit their newfound capability, as well as new manned missions. Applicants from all 17 ESA member states are welcome.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 20 April 2008
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 The International Space Station Expedition 16 crew, Commander Peggy Whitson, Yuri Malenchenko, and So-yeon Yi, yesterday found themselves 260 miles short of the landing target zone in Kazakhstan. While all three were deemed well by medical personnel, this is the second Soyuz reentry in a row - and the third in recent years - that ended up on a ballistic path, where it reenters the atmosphere at a steeper than desired angle. The steeper reentry not only forces the reentry craft off target, but subjects the occupants to much higher forces of gravity.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 20 April 2008
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 Like the Cassini-Huygens mission currently studying Saturn and its moons, NASA and the ESA are exploring ideas for another mission to the outer planets, specifically Jupiter or Saturn. For both agencies this would be a multibillion-dollar flagship project, and the final destination and plan is expected by the end of the year.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 17 April 2008
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 On course for a May 25th landing on the Red Planet, the Phoenix lander this week fired its thrusters for 35 seconds to adjust its aim directly towards Mars’ north pole. The probe is targeting a region that mission scientists have named “Green Valley.” They plan to land Phoenix somewhere within a 62 by 12 mile target ellipse. This landing area has the largest concentration of ice outside of the polar caps.
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