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Orbiter.ch Space News: Charting the Slow Death of the Universe

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Mardi 11 août 2015. Charting the Slow Death of the Universe. ESO - European Southern Observatory logo. GAMA survey releases first data at IAU General Assembly. The study involves many of the world’s most powerful telescopes, including ESO's VISTA and VST survey telescopes at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. Supporting observations were made by two orbiting space telescopes operated by NASA (GALEX and WISE) and another belonging to the European Space Agency (Herschel) [1]. All the energy in the Universe ...

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Orbiter.ch Space News: NASA's Terra Satellite Sees Molave Regain Tropical Storm Status

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Mardi 11 août 2015. NASA's Terra Satellite Sees Molave Regain Tropical Storm Status. NASA - EOS TERRA Mission patch. Aug 11, 2015. Tropical Depression Molave (Northwest Pacific). Image above: On Aug. 11 at 8:05 am EDT the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this infrared image fragmented strong storms (red) in Tropical Storm Molave's northern quadrant. Image Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team. At 1500 UTC (11 am EDT) on August 11, Molave's maximum sustained winds increase...

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Orbiter.ch Space News: One Decade after Launch, Mars Orbiter Still Going Strong

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Mardi 11 août 2015. One Decade after Launch, Mars Orbiter Still Going Strong. NASA - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) logo. August 11, 2015. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was launched on Aug. 12, 2005. MRO returns more data about Mars every week than all other Mars missions combined and supports Mars surface missions. It has orbited Mars 40,000 times and returned 250 terabits of data so far (as much data as in nearly four months of nonstop high-definition video). Image above: Among the many discove...

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Orbiter.ch Space News: Comet Firework Display Ahead of Perihelion

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Mardi 11 août 2015. Comet Firework Display Ahead of Perihelion. ESA - Rosetta Mission patch. In the approach to perihelion over the past few weeks, Rosetta has been witnessing growing activity from Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, with one dramatic outburst event proving so powerful that it even pushed away the incoming solar wind. On 29 July, Rosetta observed the most dramatic outburst yet, registered by several of its instruments from their vantage point 186 km from the comet. They imaged the outbu...

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Orbiter.ch Space News: 2015-08-02

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Vendredi 7 août 2015. Meals Ready to Eat: Expedition 44 Crew Members Sample Leafy Greens Grown on Space Station. ISS - Expedition 44 Mission patch. Aug 7, 2015. The astronauts will clean the leafy greens with citric acid-based, food safe sanitizing wipes before consuming them. They will eat half of the space bounty, setting aside the other half to be packaged and frozen on the station until it can be returned to Earth for scientific analysis. NASA is maturing Veggie technology aboard the space station to...

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Orbiter.ch Space News: 2015-07-19

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Samedi 25 juillet 2015. Chinese Long March 3B launches dual Beidou satellites. BeiDou Navigation Satellite System logo. July 25, 2015. Long March 3B launches dual Beidou satellites. The Beidou Phase III system includes the migration of its civil Beidou 1 or B1 signal from 1561.098 MHz to a frequency centered at 1575.42 MHz, the same as the GPS L1 and Galileo E1 civil signals. The long-term goal is to develop a global navigation satellite network similar to the GPS and GLONASS by 2020, eventually consisti...

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Orbiter.ch Space News: Oxymoronic Black Hole Provides Clues to Growth

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Mardi 11 août 2015. Oxymoronic Black Hole Provides Clues to Growth. NASA - Chandra X-ray Observatory patch. Aug 11, 2015. Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the 6.5-meter Clay Telescope in Chile have identified the smallest supermassive black hole ever detected in the center of a galaxy. This oxymoronic object could provide clues to how larger black holes formed along with their host galaxies 13 billion years or more in the past. The tiny heavyweight black hole is in the center of a d...

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Orbiter.ch Space News: NASA's Europa Mission Team Joins Forces for the First Time

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Lundi 10 août 2015. NASA's Europa Mission Team Joins Forces for the First Time. Aug 10, 2015. They're united by a lofty goal - to investigate whether Jupiter's moon Europa could harbor primitive life under its icy shell. Last week, a team of scientists and engineers for NASA's planned mission to Europa met for the first time at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to begin turning that goal into reality. At the introductory meeting, players in the room included many stars in the fiel...

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Orbiter.ch Space News: Cosmonauts Complete Russian Spacewalk

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Lundi 10 août 2015. Cosmonauts Complete Russian Spacewalk. ISS - Expedition 44 Mission patch. August 10, 2015. Image above: Image above: Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko is seen working outside the International Space Station in a Russian Orlan spacesuit. Image Credit: NASA TV. Image above: Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko gets ready to close the hatch to the Pirs airlock ending the spacewalk. Image Credit: NASA TV. Russian cosmonauts conduct spacewalk outside ISS. While the cosmonauts were working outside the sta...