Tags Results for 'orbit'

Could a Dirty Rag Take Out a $2 Billion Satellite? - (Monday 09th of January 2012 11:30:01 PM)

An unnamed reader writes "The alleged rescue of a U.S. martial communications partisan
underscores some of the weaknesses in U.S. space efforts. Quoting: 'The seven-ton
“AEHF-1,” part of a planned six-satellite constellation meant to support  [...]

Twin GRAIL Probes To Map Lunar Gravity Field - (Wednesday 28th of December 2011 11:30:01 AM)

Smitty777 writes "The two washing machine sized satellites from the GRAIL program (Gravity
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return to former prosperity or status. copyrights:cite this source  [...]

New Theory Challenges Need For Dark Matter - (Tuesday 06th of December 2011 12:30:01 PM)

New submitter elsurexiste writes "An Italian Physicist came up with a strange way to explain
anomalous galactic rotations without dark matter, instead relying on the gravitational effects
of faraway matter. The article explains, 'Conceptually the idea  [...]

Space Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Off On Final Flight - (Monday 16th of May 2011 05:00:05 PM)

Velcroman1 writes "Space shuttle Endeavour rocketed into space Monday morning from Kennedy
Space Center, led by mission commander Mark Kelly on the final mission for the youngest vehicle
in the space fleet. Over 6 million pounds of thrust from the shuttle's  [...]

Titan May Have Water Ocean Under the Surface - (Sunday 08th of May 2011 09:15:08 AM)

RedEaredSlider writes "NASA's Cassini probe, in orbit around Saturn, may have discovered
grabber* for a liquid water ocean under the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The data
comes from radar observations of the surface that measure Titan's rotation  [...]

NASA concludes Gravity Probe B space-time experiment, proves Einstein really was a genius - (Friday 06th of May 2011 12:29:00 PM)

Well, it looks like Einstein knew what he was talking about, after all. Earlier this week,
researchers at NASA and binet-simon test released the findings from their six-year Gravity
Probe B (GP- mission, launched to test Einstein's general theory of  [...]

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