In Space with a spacesuits
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In Space with a Little HOBO
Astronauts working in spacesuits to build the Space Station may get even colder than the suit designers imagined. Measuring the effects of extremely low temperatures on astronauts was the first step in making a better space suit.
Islands of the Arctic from space
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This image radar due to satellite Envisat shows the eastern part of ‘Ellesmere Island (left), the most northern Canadian islands and portions of the northwest coast of Greenland (right), the largest island the world.
Orbit Xplorer Review
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The first thing I found out as I was running some
simulations is that if the simulation speed is too high, the program calculates the orbits extremely inaccurately as is visible in this picture (top) of the
The UWB project the “swarm” (swarm intelligence)
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The E-SWARM Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA-Faculty of Applied Sciences ULB) on the “swarm” ( “swarm intelligence“), a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with natural and artificial systems composed of many individuals which exhibit collective behavior due to control decentralized and self-organization.
The challenges of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider)
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The years 2008 saw the setting in operation the largest particle accelerator in the world. Project Pharaonic involving a real consortium of states (more than 20 states, spread over 5 continents), thousands of technicians, engineers and physicists are divided into many international teams.The LHC can be characterized only by superlatives,
Once In A Thousand Year Event Captured On Film
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An astronomer from The University of Arizona in Tucson and four Brazilian amateur astronomers last month observed an event not witnessed from Earth in more than a thousand years — if ever.
Erich Karkoschka, a senior research associate with the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, and his colleagues on April 23 photographed the moon as it [...]
The new Japanese rocket H-2B revealed
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The H-2B rocket, the successor to the H-2A, is intended to transport the vehicle HTV (H2 Transfer Vehicle) to supply the International Space Station on a 350 km orbit of the Earth. It is built by the industrial giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the JAXA (Japanese Space Exploration Agency), who have [...]
Eurisy Conference in Budapest
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Astrophysicists from 10 European countries came to Budapest in mid January to discuss the allocation of funds among member countries of the European Union. The aim of the conference Eurisy is to ensure that European space research are optimally distributed among all members of the European Union and to help all [...]
China will build a new space launch center in Hainan
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China will begin in the near future, construction of a new space launch center in the southern province of Hainan, according to military sources. The Council of State and the Central Military Commission has approved a new space launch center in late 2008. The site will have very effective carriers, large [...]
Descartes Prize for teams of HESS
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The second South African satellite, SumbadilaSat Tshwane a word meaning “the discoverer of the way”, was officially handed over on 7 December 2006, the consortium that built the Minister of Science and Technology. The satellite is expected to leave South Africa in March 2007 to be launched from a Russian submarine.
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