Archive for the ‘Explore’ Category

Superconducting magnets could one day allow multiple spacecraft to fly in formation – a requirement for many next-generation science missions

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A suitcase-sized satellite will search for potentially dangerous asteroids that are hard to spot from the ground

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A NASA spacecraft set to launch in 2015 will come eight times closer to the Sun than any previous probe, flying within its scorching outer atmosphere

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Space Shuttle flips the bird. Then flambés it. Is there anything NASA can’t do?

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Framed by components of the International Space Station, a full moon is visible in this view above Earth’s horizon and airglow.

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