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Spaceguard – a bargain insurance policy against killer asteroids
“Spaceguard” is an international effort to search the skies for large asteroids that might collide with Earth and devastate civilisation. The present Australian government has consistently tried to ignore the […]
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AIP FYI #109: NRC Report Finds Air Force S&T Investment Inadequate
A new National Research Council report finds that the Air Force’s investment in science and technology has fallen 46 percent in real terms since FY 1989. The report’s authors conclude […]
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TRMM Spacecraft Getting a Boost to Extend its Watch on Weather and Climate Processes
On August 22, NASA completed a set of maneuvers on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft to boost its orbit around Earth. The push into a higher orbit will […]
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Lockheed Martin selected to build, fly microsatellite
Lockheed Martin Space Systems – Astronautics Operations, headquartered near Denver, Colo., has been selected by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to partner with the laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate’s Integrated […]
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Newly designed carbon tubes could replace silicon in microchips
Researchers have created the first functional logic circuit within a single molecule, an achievement that could one day help to replace silicon in microchips. This is a significant step toward […]
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Hubble reveals previously unseen shocks
A new, detailed Hubble image of a planetary nebula in the making shows for the first time the complex gas structures predicted by theory. Astronomers are thrilled by observations showing […]
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JFK Library Releases White House Tape on Space Race
The John F. Kennedy Library today announced that it has made available for research a tape recording of a 73-minute White House meeting that took place on November 21, 1962 […]
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Hubble Hatches Image of Rotten Egg Nebula Shocks
Violent gas collisions that produced supersonic shock fronts in a dying star are seen in a new, detailed image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The picture, taken by Hubble’s Wide […]
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Virtual Telescope Observes Record-Breaking Asteroid – New Data Show that “2001 KX76” Is Larger than Ceres
Summary Ceres, the first asteroid (minor planet) to be discovered in the Solar System, has held the record as the largest known object of its kind for two centuries. However, […]
