<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Coolest spacecraft ever : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/"/><tagline>Coolest spacecraft ever : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>science.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, science.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-11-26T20:32:30+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Coolest spacecraft ever]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/126686/1/" /><id>126686</id><summary><![CDATA[Coolest spacecraft ever]]></summary><issued>2009-07-04T14:04:26+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-04T14:04:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273.05&#176;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.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[Russian spacecraft landed on moon hours before Americans]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/technology/l/126697/1/" /><id>126697</id><summary><![CDATA[Russian spacecraft landed on moon hours before Americans]]></summary><issued>2009-07-04T15:42:25+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-04T15:42:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cassini Spacecraft to Fly Through Moon's Geyser ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/plime-com/l/29868/1/" /><id>29868</id><summary><![CDATA[Cassini Spacecraft to Fly Through Moon's Geyser ]]></summary><issued>2007-08-01T22:28:14+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-01T22:28:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Spacecraft Beams Home New Images of Mercury]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/47505/1/" /><id>47505</id><summary><![CDATA[Spacecraft Beams Home New Images of Mercury]]></summary><issued>2008-01-16T21:57:17+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-16T21:57:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Soyuz spacecraft lands off-target ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/58966/1/" /><id>58966</id><summary><![CDATA[Soyuz spacecraft lands off-target ]]></summary><issued>2008-04-19T14:00:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-19T14:00:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[IBEX spacecraft detects fast neutral hydrogen coming from the moon]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/125607/1/" /><id>125607</id><summary><![CDATA[IBEX spacecraft detects fast neutral hydrogen coming from the moon]]></summary><issued>2009-06-23T10:02:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-23T10:02:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Images of Earth from Planetary Spacecraft ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/plime-com/l/40902/1/" /><id>40902</id><summary><![CDATA[Images of Earth from Planetary Spacecraft ]]></summary><issued>2007-11-07T08:20:19+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-07T08:20:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ulysses Spacecraft on Verge of  Freezing.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/plime-com/l/51821/1/" /><id>51821</id><summary><![CDATA[Ulysses Spacecraft on Verge of  Freezing.]]></summary><issued>2008-02-23T22:32:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-23T22:32:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Second inflatable spacecraft launched]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/plime-com/l/26153/1/" /><id>26153</id><summary><![CDATA[Second inflatable spacecraft launched]]></summary><issued>2007-07-04T05:16:01+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-04T05:16:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Beams Home First Images]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/107886/1/" /><id>107886</id><summary><![CDATA[Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Beams Home First Images]]></summary><issued>2009-04-18T00:46:05+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-18T00:46:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New Tourist Spacecraft Unveiled]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/48123/1/" /><id>48123</id><summary><![CDATA[New Tourist Spacecraft Unveiled]]></summary><issued>2008-01-23T12:57:12+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-23T12:57:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Coolest Picture Ever]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/arts/l/23066/1/" /><id>23066</id><summary><![CDATA[Coolest Picture Ever]]></summary><issued>2007-06-07T17:49:24+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-07T17:49:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It can't really be described.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dawn probe to explore origins of solar system]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/26426/1/" /><id>26426</id><summary><![CDATA[Dawn probe to explore origins of solar system]]></summary><issued>2007-07-06T12:20:07+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-06T12:20:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Early Moon Photos Revealed More Than Was Known]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/20336/1/" /><id>20336</id><summary><![CDATA[Early Moon Photos Revealed More Than Was Known]]></summary><issued>2007-05-14T21:43:37+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-14T21:43:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cassini's continued mission]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/plime-com/l/108746/1/" /><id>108746</id><summary><![CDATA[Cassini's continued mission]]></summary><issued>2009-04-21T19:54:15+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-21T19:54:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Movie shows alien's-eye view of Earth and Moon]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/69142/1/" /><id>69142</id><summary><![CDATA[Movie shows alien's-eye view of Earth and Moon]]></summary><issued>2008-07-18T05:42:34+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-18T05:42:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXd-VIf0zwQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">VIDEO</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Spacecraft Reveals Stunning New Views of Mercury]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/79003/1/" /><id>79003</id><summary><![CDATA[Spacecraft Reveals Stunning New Views of Mercury]]></summary><issued>2008-10-08T10:25:28+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-08T10:25:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[NASA Calls on APL to Send a Probe to the Sun]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/60618/1/" /><id>60618</id><summary><![CDATA[NASA Calls on APL to Send a Probe to the Sun]]></summary><issued>2008-05-05T02:47:22+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-05T02:47:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone &#8211; and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar wind that influences everything in our solar system.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Quadruple star system may host a planet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/plime-com/l/29005/1/" /><id>29005</id><summary><![CDATA[Quadruple star system may host a planet]]></summary><issued>2007-07-26T11:06:14+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-26T11:06:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Planets may be present in a quadruple star system 150 light years from Earth, according to Spitzer Space Telescope observations. The system, called HD 98800, consists of two pairs of stars in which the partners in each pair orbit one another closely. The pairs themselves travel around each other on a very elongated path.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bugs in Space: Can They Survive? ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/43851/1/" /><id>43851</id><summary><![CDATA[Bugs in Space: Can They Survive? ]]></summary><issued>2007-12-11T08:06:12+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-11T08:06:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Catching a free ride to Mars takes more than sticking out a thumb, but some hardy Earth bacteria could survive as hitchhikers clinging to the outside of spacecraft, studies have shown. Now a set of experiments going up with space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station will test how exposure to the harshness of space might change bacteria during a simulated Mars mission.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Suprise! Saturn Has Small Moon Hidden In Ring]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/plime-com/l/97480/1/" /><id>97480</id><summary><![CDATA[Suprise! Saturn Has Small Moon Hidden In Ring]]></summary><issued>2009-03-03T16:38:03+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-03T16:38:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry></feed>