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NASA tested the escape chamber on the spacecraft
NASA has been testing and launching an escape chamber for astronauts, to create absolute safety in emergencies.
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FPT expects to launch the first satellite in 2011
The final model of a ready-to-fly F-1 satellite will be completed this year and is expected to launch a 2-kilogram satellite in 2011.
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NASA successfully tested the insulation of gas-powered spacecraft
The US aviation agency has recently successfully researched a type of thermal insulation for gas-powered spacecraft, hoping to slightly reduce the weight of future space…
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The end of the flight to Mars
Exactly speaking this is just a hypothetical flight. The Russian-European crew, consisting of six volunteers, spent 105 days and nights in the Mars project of the intern…
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NASA tested the new launch system
NASA has succeeded in testing a new destroyer system that helps astronauts fall by parachute safely when a missile launch occurs.
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Plant vegetables on the moon
American scientists are planning to grow vegetables like brussels on the moon in a life test on the planet.
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Start testing the journey to Mars
Experiment to find out whether humans can travel to Mars and return to Earth or not just opened in Moscow.
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Space aircraft coming soon
British engineers claim they will successfully build a special rocket engine capable of bringing the Skylon-powered aircraft straight into space.
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The sun is not the perfect sphere
Scientists recently used the RHESSI spacecraft (NASA) to test the sun's roundness with unprecedented accuracy. They discovered that the sun was not the perfect sphere.
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Power transmission by radio waves
John C. Mankins, a scientist who worked at the US Aerospace Agency (NASA), successfully tested the use of radio waves to transmit solar power at a distance of 148km betw…
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NASA destroyed the missile after the failed launch
The US Space Agency destroyed an unmanned test missile - carrying a pair of research satellites - as it flew away from orbit shortly after takeoff.
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Quasars: 'final test' for relativity?
Until now astronomers have received very convincing evidence that objects of high mass bend space-time significantly, according to the predictions of general relativity.
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Laser satellite communication is very promising
The satellites are now using radio waves to exchange data. Now data rates can be increased by a hundred times by using lasers instead of radio signals. Two satellites ar…
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Paper planes launched from international space station
A paper plane will be launched from the International Space Station (ISS) to mark the new moment of space travel. With a round shape and made of siilocon-treated heat-re…