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1. Wind Gust Gives Opportunity Rover a Power Boost

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   ... "Love those Martian dust busters! A recent wind gust cleaned Oppy’s solar panels giving her a little power boost for the road." And on the road she is, heading earnestly for Endeavour Crater, ... Thursday, 15 July 2010

2. Hubble Confirms Comet-like Tail on Vaporizing Planet

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   ... is behaving like a Jupiter-sized comet, losing its atmosphere in a huge plume due to the powerful solar wind of its too-close star.(...) Read the rest of Hubble Confirms Comet-like Tail on Vaporizing Planet ... Thursday, 15 July 2010

3. Solar Powered Airplane Successfully Flies Through the Night

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   Solar Impulse's Chief Executive Officer and pilot Andre Borschberg flyes in the solar-powered HB-SIA prototype airplane for its first night flight attempt near Payerne airport July 7, 2010. Credit: KEYSTONE/Dominic ... Thursday, 08 July 2010

4. Smoother Landings

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   ... technology demonstrator rocket engine, increasing the throttling capability by 35 percent over previous tests. This test series demonstrated this engine could go from a thrust range of 104 percent power ... Wednesday, 07 July 2010

5. Solar-Powered Airplane Attempts First Night Flight

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   ... Read the rest of Solar-Powered Airplane Attempts First Night Flight (461 words) © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better ... Wednesday, 07 July 2010

6. Powerhouse Black Hole Blows a Huge Bubble

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   Combining observations done with ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of jets ever seen from a stellar black hole. The black ... Wednesday, 07 July 2010

7. New Satellite for Monitoring Space Debris To Launch

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   ... be used on clear nights, and not all the observatories are powerful enough to detect objects in high or geosynchronous orbits. (...) Read the rest of New Satellite for Monitoring Space Debris To Launch ... Monday, 05 July 2010

8. New Satellite for Monitoring Space Debris To Launch

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   ... be used on clear nights, and not all the observatories are powerful enough to detect objects in high or geosynchronous orbits. (...) Read the rest of New Satellite for Monitoring Space Debris To Launch ... Monday, 05 July 2010

9. A Matter of Perspective

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   ... whole sky -- from asteroids to stars to powerful, distant galaxies. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA ... Tuesday, 22 June 2010

10. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast – June 18-20, 2010

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    ... test of your telescope's resolving power? Then I "double dare" you to take on Gamma Virginis! Whenever you're ready, I'll see you in the back yard…. (...) Read the rest ... Thursday, 17 June 2010

11. Shooting for the Moon

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    ... the 364-foot tall moon rocket, which stage was powered by five J-2 engines. Image Credit: NASA ... Monday, 14 June 2010

12. Japanese Solar Sail Deploys Successfully

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    ... successfully and is now generating power. Since its launch on May 21, 2010, teams from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), have been painstakingly checking out all the systems on IKAROS before ... Friday, 11 June 2010

13. Needed: Plutonium-238

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    ... something to write to members of Congress about. NASA is running out of plutonium-238, which is used to power deep space probes, but it's unclear whether Congress will provide the $30 million that ... Wednesday, 09 June 2010

14. Japanese Firm Designing Futuristic Space Mega-Projects

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    The Luna Ring, a belt of solar collecting panels along the Moon's equator. Credit: Shimizu Space based solar power? How about a Moon-based solar collector that would beam energy back to Earth. This ... Wednesday, 09 June 2010

15. Centaur's Rocket Engine

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    In this image, engineers test the RL-10 engine in NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center's Propulsion Systems Laboratory. Developed by Pratt & Whitney, the engine was designed to power the Centaur second-stage ... Tuesday, 08 June 2010

16. Old Moon Rover Beams Surprising Laser Flashes To Earth

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    ... shined a laser on Lunokhod 1's position, and we were stunned by the power of the reflection," says Tom Murphy of UC San Diego, who leads the research team that's putting the old robot back to work. "Lunokhod ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

17. Proton-M With Arabsat-5 telecoms Satellite Blasts Off From Baikonur

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    Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 04, 2010 - Russia's Proton-M launch vehicle powered by the Breeze-M upper stage blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakstan on Friday to orbit the Arabsat-5 ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

18. Monster Cyclone Phet Slamming Northeastern Oman

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    ... when Phet was powering ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

19. Airmen Upgrade GPS Constellation

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    ... as well as ground vehicle and aircraft navigation aids. Civilians also use GPS as timing and navigation aids, plus they rely on GPS for power-grid management, banking, stock market transactions and cell-phone ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010

20. Russia Needs Long-Term Space Strategy To Remain Cosmic Superpower

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    ... Baturin has said. "Unfortunately, Russia has no long-term space strategy. For some 15 or maybe 20 more years Russia will remain a space superpower, but after this period, Russia will become a second-league ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010