News articles tagged with 'orbit'
Sea level stargazing: Astronomers make key sighting with Florida telescope
— 29 Sep 2009 17:56 | AstronomyThis summer, University of Florida astronomers inaugurated the world's largest optical telescope on a nearly 8,000-foot mountaintop 3,480 miles away... — full story
New observations solve longstanding mystery of tipped stars
— 18 Sep 2009 12:59 | AstronomyMIT researchers and colleagues have solved a longstanding mystery about a pair of stars called DI Herculis whose peculiar rotation (a shift in their orbit that was four times slower... — full story
New transient radiation belt discovered at Saturn
— 14 Sep 2009 00:02 | AstronomyScientists using the Cassini spacecraft's Magnetospheric Imaging instrument (MIMI) have detected a new, temporary radiation belt at Saturn, located around the orbit of its moon Dione... — full story
Jupiter captured comet for 12 years in mid-20th century
— 14 Sep 2009 00:02 | AstronomyComet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu was captured as a temporary moon of Jupiter in the mid-20th century and remained trapped in an irregular orbit for about twelve years... — full story
Unveiling the true face of a gigantic star
— 8 Aug 2009 15:50 | AstronomyAn international team of astronomers, led by Keiichi Ohnaka at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, has made the most high resolution images of a dying giant... — full story
Naval Research Laboratory's ANDE-2 launched aboard Endeavour
— 17 Jul 2009 18:26 | TechnologyThe Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL's) satellite suite, the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment 2 (ANDE-2), launched aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour on 15 July. The ANDE-2... — full story
GOES-O satellite reaches orbit and renamed GOES-14
— 10 Jul 2009 16:32 | EnvironmentOn 27 June the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, soared into space during a spectacular launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. GOES-O... — full story
Coolest spacecraft ever in orbit around second Lagrange point
— 4 Jul 2009 12:25 | AstronomyOn 2 July, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273 C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft... — full story
NASA launches lunar impactor
— 19 Jun 2009 06:51 | AstronomyNASA successfully launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, Thursday on a mission to search for water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon's... — full story
GOCE achieves drag-free perfection
— 28 May 2009 13:07 | EnvironmentVolker Liebig, ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programmes commented, 'I am very pleased to see another world premier by GOCE, after having already demonstrated the first gradiometer... — full story