Coolest spacecraft ever
Coolest spacecraft ever
Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273.05°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2. picked by kakana 4 months ago
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 Cassini Spacecraft to Fly Through Moon's Geyser
Cassini Spacecraft to Fly Through Moon's Geyser
The Cassini spacecraft will perform its closest flyby ever of Saturn's ice-spewing moon Enceladus early next year, moving directly into its icy polar geyser for a deep-space shower. picked by ogri2003 2 years ago
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 Russian spacecraft landed on moon hours before Americans
Russian spacecraft landed on moon hours before Americans
Sir Bernard Lovell, the astronomer, was among the team listening to transmissions coming from the area of space and began tracking the unmanned Soviet spacecraft Luna 15, which was trying to collect samples of lunar soil and rock and then return to Earth before the US mission. picked by kakana 4 months ago
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 Soyuz spacecraft lands off-target
Soyuz spacecraft lands off-target
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has returned to Earth, but came down more than 400km (250 miles) away from its planned touchdown point, say Russian officials. picked by topofall 2 years ago
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 IBEX spacecraft detects fast neutral hydrogen coming from the moon
IBEX spacecraft detects fast neutral hydrogen coming from the moon
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago
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 Images of Earth from Planetary Spacecraft
Images of Earth from Planetary Spacecraft
As spacecraft began to launch on journeys to more distant planets, never to return, their mission controllers often commanded them to take departing views of Earth and the Moon. Mariner 10 and Voyager 1 both took such snapshots, as did Mars Odyssey, Venus Express, and many others. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago
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 Ulysses Spacecraft on Verge of  Freezing.
Ulysses Spacecraft on Verge of Freezing.
The spacecraft ulysses, currently in the 18th year of its mission has encountered a glitch which may doom it to a frozen death in space. picked by xenity7 2 years ago
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 Second inflatable spacecraft launched
Second inflatable spacecraft launched
The firm Bigelow Aerospace has launched its second inflatable space module, Genesis 2, taking another step towards its goal of building crewed, inflatable space stations that could be leased to paying customers. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago
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 Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Beams Home First Images
Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Beams Home First Images
The planet-seeking Kepler spacecraft has beamed home its first images of a patch of the sky where NASA hopes to find Earth-like planets circling distant, alien stars. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago
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 Spacecraft Beams Home New Images of Mercury
Spacecraft Beams Home New Images of Mercury
Scientists are sifting through their first new views of the planet Mercury in more than three decades thanks to images beamed home by NASA's MESSENGER probe. The car-sized spacecraft zipped past Mercury in a Monday flyby and is relaying more than 1,200 new images and other data back to eager scientists on Earth. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago
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 New Tourist Spacecraft Unveiled
New Tourist Spacecraft Unveiled
The creator of SpaceShipOne, the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space, traveled to New York to show detailed models of the bigger SpaceShipTwo and its carrier airplane, WhiteKnightTwo. picked by willster09 2 years ago
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 Coolest Picture Ever
Coolest Picture Ever
It can't really be described. picked by Mershaullk 2 years ago
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 Cassini's continued mission
Cassini's continued mission
Pictures from NASA sent back by the Cassini spacecraft as it passed Saturn and its moons. Cassini has been functioning in space for almost five years now, and the pictures are awesome! picked by bingo 7 months ago
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 Movie shows alien's-eye view of Earth and Moon
Movie shows alien's-eye view of Earth and Moon
A spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed the Earth and its moon from 31 million miles away, making an alien's-eye view of our world. VIDEO picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago
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 Spacecraft Reveals Stunning New Views of Mercury
Spacecraft Reveals Stunning New Views of Mercury
A NASA probe has begun beaming back stunning new images from its successful second flyby of Mercury, the planet closest to the sun. NASA's MESSENGER probe captured never-before-seen views of the Mercury during its encounter on Monday. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago
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 NASA Calls on APL to Send a Probe to the Sun
NASA Calls on APL to Send a Probe to the Sun
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone – and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar wind that influences everything in our solar system. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago
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 Dawn probe to explore origins of solar system
Dawn probe to explore origins of solar system
The US spacecraft Dawn, due to launch on Sunday, will take a close look at two massive asteroids to try to penetrate the mystery of our solar system's origins 4.6 billion years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago
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 Early Moon Photos Revealed More Than Was Known
Early Moon Photos Revealed More Than Was Known
Newly reprocessed images of the Moon's far side taken by Soviet spacecraft more than 40 years ago may have confirmed that the Moon's biggest impact scar was glimpsed far earlier than previously thought. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago
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 Suprise! Saturn Has Small Moon Hidden In Ring
Suprise! Saturn Has Small Moon Hidden In Ring
Scientists have found a new moon hidden in one of Saturn's dazzling outer rings. The international Cassini spacecraft spotted the moon, which measures about a third of a mile wide. picked by suebe 8 months ago
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 NASA Kepler Mission Offers Opportunity to Send Names Into Space
NASA Kepler Mission Offers Opportunity to Send Names Into Space
How cool would it be to have your name on board the spacecraft that discovers the first known Earth-like planet beyond our solar system? Well, here's your chance. NASA today announced an opportunity for anyone to submit their name to be included on a DVD and rocketed into space as part of NASA's Kepler Mission, scheduled to launch in February 2009 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago
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 UFO Crashed Into Meteorite to Save Earth
UFO Crashed Into Meteorite to Save Earth
Did a UFO deliberately crash into a meteor to save Earth 100 years ago? That's what one Russian scientist is claiming.

Dr. Yuri Labvin, president of the Tunguska Spatial Phenomenon Foundation, insists that an alien spacecraft sacrificed itself to prevent a gigantic meteor from slamming into the planet above Siberia on June 30, 1908. picked by bingo 5 months ago
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