Archive for the ‘Space & Satellite’ 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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Tropical Cyclone Nargis as photographed on 2 May 2008 at 4:40 UTC by NASA’s Terra satellite.

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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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Planning on building a moon base? There are some places you should definitely avoid, warns Marcus Chown

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